The little bit I saw of Hostel was pretty appalling.
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
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Dana - Jun 08, 2007 10:13:20 am PDT #8977 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 08, 2007 10:33:56 am PDT #8978 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
After being exposed to Dario Argento (specifically SUSPIRIA) as an early teen, I'm very blase about almost all Horrible Bloody Death in movies. Bad stuff in real life (pain without any blood even) makes me incredibly squeamish, but if it's fake I'm OK with it (which means I avoid certain Italian and Asian movies that induldge in real animal death; I can take it in APOCALYPSE NOW because it was a ceremony that was going to happen anyway, but if it was staged soley for the sake of the movie, nuh huh not remotely interested in pushing my "limits").
It takes something besides just gory violence to disturb me; some other level of disturbing. I think I can count the films that bothered me since seeing SUSPIRIA on one hand, and it was always something in addition to the violence. That said, I want something from horror movies that's OTHER than gory violence (or nothing but sex and gory violence), and some of my favorite horror movies have close to none if any (I'm thinking of (the real) THE HAUNTING here).
Laga - Jun 08, 2007 10:40:26 am PDT #8979 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Yeah I was thinking I would have had a lot harder time watching something like The Sixth Sense alone in a darkened auditorium. The scariness of Hostel 2 was mostly of the sudden jump type. The actual torture and death scenes are more of the sickened grimace variety. I recall seeing some pretty disturbing visuals in the last couple seasons of Buffy too.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 08, 2007 10:43:19 am PDT #8980 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I recall seeing some pretty disturbing visuals in the last couple seasons of Buffy too.
Nathan Fillion taking out Xander's eye springs to mind.
Laga - Jun 08, 2007 10:44:12 am PDT #8981 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
and Warren with no skin on. And the gnarl.
Volans - Jun 08, 2007 10:48:09 am PDT #8982 of 10001
move out and draw fire
A guy I worked with overseas, whose job involves picking through the remnants of suicide bombers in Iraq, saw Hostel and told me it was the most disturbing thing he had ever seen. He didn't seem happy about that.
What movie were Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore both in? I am drawing a blank.
Laga - Jun 08, 2007 10:49:04 am PDT #8983 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
The Hours?
Frankenbuddha - Jun 08, 2007 10:49:51 am PDT #8984 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
What movie were Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore both in? I am drawing a blank.
Was that THE HOURS?
Laga - Jun 08, 2007 10:51:12 am PDT #8985 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Yes it was. I confirmed with this handy tool on imdb: Look up joint ventures.
ETA: that was not the form I was looking for. I usually get to it by searching for one actor, then scrolling to the bottom of their imdb page and entering the name of another actor in the "look up joint ventures" box.
Volans - Jun 08, 2007 10:52:17 am PDT #8986 of 10001
move out and draw fire
oh cool