Do you wince at violence in horror movies, or are you desensitized to it?!
Question: For the most part I have become highly desensitized.
It takes a hell of a shock to get a rise out of me.
But.....Jaws and Alien scared the crap out of me when I first saw them..and the Omen (the original version) unsettled me for days.
Very few movie have any real "Scares" in them...they go for "Gore Value" instead.
Hostle and Saw were ok...but they were NOT scary.
Hannibal was closer to the mark.
Se7en got my attention.
Creepshow had some good moments.
Answers: For the most part I have become highly desensitized.
It takes a hell of a shock to get a rise out of me.
But.....Jaws and Alien scared the crap out of me when I first saw them..and the Omen (the original version) unsettled me for days.
Very few movie have any real "Scares" in them...they go for "Gore Value" instead.
Hostle and Saw were ok...but they were NOT scary.
Hannibal was closer to the mark.
Se7en got my attention.
Creepshow had some good moments.
depends..i usually watch it..i like the blood and gore lol..but i was always turning away when i saw hostel..ugh the part with the fingers and the eyes! were disturbing
Wince...turn my head...close my eyes...sometimes even turn the volume down....so I don't have to listen to the symphony of violence that accompanies the physical act.
I wince but I still watch it, im the kind of person who watches with one eye lol
this is the list of the best horrorfilms of all time, and you have to see them all and do not miss them in your life! they are excellent to teach you a huge fear !
texas chainsaw 1974 directed Tobe Hopper
the black sunday 1960 directed mario bava
5 dolls for august month 1970 directed mario bava
the girl who knew too much 1962 directed mario bava
the medusa touch 1976 directed Jack Gold
house of the cemetery 1983 directed lucio fulci
city of the living dead 1981 directed lucio fulci
hatchet for a honeymoon 1970 directed mario bava
black sabbath 1963 directed mario bava
the shining 1980 directed stanley cubrick
blood and the blacklace 1965 directed mario bava
the whip and the body 1963 directed mario bava
the house of exorcism 1976 directed mario bava
the beyond 1979 directed by lucio fulci
night of the living dead 1968 directed george romero
dawn of the dead 1978 directed george romero
land of the dead 2005 directed george romero
day of the dead 1984 directed george romero
diary of the dead 2007/08 directed george romero
creepshow 1983 directed george romero
Yes, well that's the whole point of putting violence in film because people aren't used to it and they are intrigued by it, as if they are a good person they are not going to induce violence yet there's this knid of voyeuristic want to witness what it's like to either participate or watch from afar from the comfort of their own seat. Horror movies, particularly nowadays kinda have to push the boundaries as most of the gruesome shocking stuff has been done. People aren't desensitised, they have just seen it before and people always want something fresh which is why cinemas are still open. I'm sure if a person, it is argued due to moral panic particularly concerning violent video games, repetitively watched scenes of violence they would be be bored eventually and would want to see new things done. however, although people say that watching too many violent things can make a person more violent it could actually work the opposite way - it could make a person bored of violence depending on how many films they've seen etc.
I can watch pretty much anything on a horror film except any throat slitting scenes. For some reason that really gets me. Maybe I was killed that way in a previous life lol.
I can watch eyeballs stabbing, decapitation, human fireballs, limbs chopped off etc but throat slitting no way...that always makes me turn my head away.
I think I am pretty much desensitized to everything else that you generally see in horror films as I've seen so many of them now. After seeing some of the really hard core Japanese ones though nothing really shocks me much anymore in a film.
I think House Of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie films for those that don't know), raised the bar on western horror.
Yaa I wince at it if it is really disturbing , but I didn't wince at some even so violence in Kill BIll 1 & 2 but wince at the scenes of The Hills have Eyes ,...
I'm used to it now. I think most people are by now
Pretty much desensitized to the horror movies they make nowadays. Some older ones creep me out more than what they make today. The newer horror films more like try to gross you out instead of scare you, it seems like. I dont know, movies like the old movie "Salems Lot" SCARE me. Another one is the first and second Nightmare on Elm Street. Those are really the only movies that still scare me to this day
I get a buzz off of violence in horror films. Most of the time you can tell it is fake anyways. What scares me are films like Cannibal Holocaust, the more real, the more it scares me lol.
I like to let myself get into the experience. It's more fun to me to just buy into the plot and hang on for the ride rather than rip a movie apart like most people seem to do. For that reason, I will watch a lot of scenes through my fingertips. However, I have seen a LOT of horror movies and I haven't encountered any violence in years that I couldn't watch. In fact, I've found the things that make me hide behind my hands or a blanket tend to be the non violent, suspenseful parts. It's a lot scarier to watch something crawl slowly across the ceiling at the unsuspecting hero than it is to watch someone get ripped open. Gore can be a lot of fun, but the movie needs something more than just that to make it good.
So, essentially, I do wince at some violence in horror movies, but only if the story is sufficient to get me caring about the people it's happening to. For instance, I haven't seen a movie as terrible as Hostel in a long time. If the characters and plot had been better, I would have considered it one of the goriest movies I'd ever seen even with less gore, b/c it woud have had more impact. As it was, I barely registered the violence b/c there was nothing else to the movie, so it didn't seem all that bad to me. It's all a matter of creating the right perspective.