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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Im currently watch Dr Sleep on Netflix. I like Stephen King books hes a great author. What i have never liked is films where children get hurt. Is there a limit to horror or is that the point of the genre? Likely its a stupid question i’m asking but i’d be interested to hear others take on it. |
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"I don’t like the newer Saw films ( 1 and 2 were good)
I’m more into the classic horror - Halloween etc and partial to the thrillers"
Agreed. Preference for classic horror films. |
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"I love them.
Would just prefer not to watch them alone.
I’d like to watch you alone 
Is that you behind my sofa? 
*cue music and dry ice…."
Ok, I have an overactive imagination. I am not liking this. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I like classic stuff, MR James, Susan Hill, etc, but I'd don't care for "torture porn", or gratuitous gore. It's better if there is something left to the imagination. |
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"I love them.
Would just prefer not to watch them alone.
I’d like to watch you alone
Is that you behind my sofa?
*cue music and dry ice….
Ok, I have an overactive imagination. I am not liking this. "
I'm under the sofa and just waiting for the right time to grab your leg |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I love them.
Would just prefer not to watch them alone.
I’d like to watch you alone
Is that you behind my sofa?
*cue music and dry ice….
Ok, I have an overactive imagination. I am not liking this.
I'm under the sofa and just waiting for the right time to grab your leg"
I moved my leg when reading that!!! |
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"I love them.
Would just prefer not to watch them alone.
I’d like to watch you alone
Is that you behind my sofa?
*cue music and dry ice….
Ok, I have an overactive imagination. I am not liking this.
I'm under the sofa and just waiting for the right time to grab your leg
I moved my leg when reading that!!!"
Whatever you do, don't look behind the curtains  |
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"Im currently watch Dr Sleep on Netflix. I like Stephen King books hes a great author. What i have never liked is films where children get hurt. Is there a limit to horror or is that the point of the genre? Likely its a stupid question i’m asking but i’d be interested to hear others take on it. "
Agree if a child is hurt or killed I find it difficult to watch the film. On another thread I commented on a film I couldn’t finish due to a scene with children being hurt.
However I’ve watched all sorts of horror over the years and very little else bothers me. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Most Stephen King books have children playing important roles. He is probably one of the best writer of children characters.
As for limits of horror, I think it's a highly subjective matter. Years of watching horror films have made me numb. I do find gory/disturbing scenes just for the sake of it boring unless there is a good story to go with it. As someone mentioned above, Saw I and Saw II had good plots. The sequels were nothing but torture porn. |
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Cannibal Holocaust was my limit in horror. I watched it because of the hype around it buy it contains some distressing scenes of animals being killed for real on camera and in quite a lot of stress.
I watched a little bit of A Serbian Film too and turned it off.
Grim horror porn. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I love Stephen king, I have an original copy of thinner under his Richard Bachman pseudonym. What I find with the film adaptations is they are either brilliant, ie shawshank redemption, dr sleep, misery or absolutely bloody awful, sleepwalkers,thinner maximum overdrive. They remade the shining and Salem’s lot which although they got panned actually stick to the books more and are better for it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I love Stephen king, I have an original copy of thinner under his Richard Bachman pseudonym. What I find with the film adaptations is they are either brilliant, ie shawshank redemption, dr sleep, misery or absolutely bloody awful, sleepwalkers,thinner maximum overdrive. They remade the shining and Salem’s lot which although they got panned actually stick to the books more and are better for it. "
The thing with Stephen King is that most of his books do not have great plots with exceptions like Shining. He is a terrific writer who can even make the simplest of stories thrilling for the reader. What's the plot of Carrie? A girl bullied in school gets out of control one evening, gets telekinesis power and destroys the town. Simple or even a silly story to an extent. But he wrote that really well. When you try to make films from them, they tend to fail for obvious reasons. The plot is just not strong enough for a film.
As for Richard Bachman books, The Long Walk is one of my favourites. Another story with mostly children. But not horror. |
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Oh I absolutely can't do horror! I get scared with someone just sneaking up on me 
I have wahed the purge, don't like that kind of thing but I do get intrigued by the reasoning of why I guess.
I've heard of the Serbian film from threads on here and could hardly read the wiki page on it, same as the human centipede gads!! |
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"I don’t like the newer Saw films ( 1 and 2 were good)
I’m more into the classic horror - Halloween etc and partial to the thrillers
Agreed. Preference for classic horror films. "
Have you watched HOSTEL that could be real ! |
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By *ty31Man
over a year ago
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I like horror films but I think alot have given up on creating suspense and atmosphere (like The Shining) in favour of violence simply for the sake of violence (a lot of slasher flicks and torture porn) which I find a bit boring.
I like the Japanese and Korean stuff. House of the Devil was a pleasant surprise as well, a modern horror film that actually builds up tension and suspense with good storytelling |
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"I'm the same with classic cars- whenever they mangle one on film its 'Noooooo!, why didn't they just use a Vauxhall Corsa- theres thousands of the buggers!'  "
glad it's not just me, although to be fair now many are mocked up wrecks x |
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By *yronMan
over a year ago
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I'm not a big fan of gore in horror: it becomes about the gore and the plot is just a justification for it. I'd rather watch something like MR James, or anyone where there's more implied and less seen. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Technically there is no limit to horror. Horror being defined where we as the viewer or reader merely 'witness' the perils the victims or potential victims face.
If there was any real danger to us as the 'observer' then that is defined as terror.
But the only limits on horror are both the censor and the marketing dept trying to get bums on seats.
Currently in the UK only 3 horror films are refused an 18 certificate by the BBFC - namely The Bunny Game, Murder-Set-Pieces and Grotesque. Yet you can easily 'find' these online, with The Bunny Game even being of youtube from time to time.
Your comment of children getting hurt is interesting as the one that tends to rile horror fans most is when animals get injured or killed on screen. Adult and child humans are generally fair game! |
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