Hostel 2
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- SavageParrot
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by SavageParrot » Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:42 am
I don't get why people like these films. They have no particualr plot, not one that couldn't have been written on the back of a napkin anyway, they aren't funny in the kind of army or darkness/pulp fiction gruesomeness way. This sort of film just makes me feel sick to my stomach and I can't see that attraction of that sensation.
Don't get me wrong I am not a prude. Violence as a necessary part of plot I have no problem with, many of my favourite films are extremely violent (scarface springs to mind) but violence for violence sake I just can't understand. It seems like these films are marketed solely on being as gruesome as it is possible to be and it leaves me stumped (no pun intended).
I mean it's not even as if you have to have the explicit scenes of violence. Psycho regularly hits the top 10 in polls of horror films but look at the violence in that. The shower scene has no graphic scenes of knives piercing flesh (don't believe me go watch it again) The violence is implied as much as it is explicit. But everyone remembers that scene anyway, the imagination does the hard work. It seems to me that if the only way you can get the horror of the situation over the the audiece is through stomach churning scenes of a frankly hideous nature then you really aren't very good at directing.
Don't get me wrong I am not a prude. Violence as a necessary part of plot I have no problem with, many of my favourite films are extremely violent (scarface springs to mind) but violence for violence sake I just can't understand. It seems like these films are marketed solely on being as gruesome as it is possible to be and it leaves me stumped (no pun intended).
I mean it's not even as if you have to have the explicit scenes of violence. Psycho regularly hits the top 10 in polls of horror films but look at the violence in that. The shower scene has no graphic scenes of knives piercing flesh (don't believe me go watch it again) The violence is implied as much as it is explicit. But everyone remembers that scene anyway, the imagination does the hard work. It seems to me that if the only way you can get the horror of the situation over the the audiece is through stomach churning scenes of a frankly hideous nature then you really aren't very good at directing.
by CodeRed68 » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:27 pm
I don't think Hostel was even that gruesome. Definitely not as much as people let on to be. I was a little dissapointed, for that matter.
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