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Did you ever count the commercial breaks? Seven. They go on so long and repeat so many times, I forget what I am watching.
"Scary movies that don't rely on surprise, gratuitous sex, and gore." Kinda like the Pee Wee Herman Playhouse without Pee Wee or the playhouse. Seriously?
By surprise, I mean something suddenly jumps out at the person and it scares the audience. By gratuitous sex, I mean movies like Friday the 13th (at least the originals back in the T&A days of the '80s) where it adds nothing to the plot, but it makes it impossible to watch it with your preteen kids. By gore, I mean all movies these days with blood and guts that look so fake and stupid (Final Destination, etc.) or the torture movies like Saw and Hostel.
Blaire Witch was creepy without resorting to any of that. I was just giving a nod to it because I appreciate it much more when the story is scary without relying on the easy plot twists.
By surprise, I mean something suddenly jumps out at the person and it scares the audience. By gratuitous sex, I mean movies like Friday the 13th (at least the originals back in the T&A days of the '80s) where it adds nothing to the plot, but it makes it impossible to watch it with your preteen kids. By gore, I mean all movies these days with blood and guts that look so fake and stupid (Final Destination, etc.) or the torture movies like Saw and Hostel.
Blaire Witch was creepy without resorting to any of that. I was just giving a nod to it because I appreciate it much more when the story is scary without relying on the easy plot twists.
Just to clarify, I would never watch Friday the 13th movies with my preteen kids, mainly because of the sex thing AND BECAUSE THEY'RE STUPID. But there are certain movies that are otherwise perfectly fine for the kids to watch except they contain one scene that makes it inappropriate. Jerry McGuire comes to mind when Kelly Preston and Tom Cruise have a short sex scene, but luckily it's near the beginning so I can skip that part for the kids.
Just to clarify, I would never watch Friday the 13th movies with my preteen kids, mainly because of the sex thing AND BECAUSE THEY'RE STUPID. But there are certain movies that are otherwise perfectly fine for the kids to watch except they contain one scene that makes it inappropriate. Jerry McGuire comes to mind when Kelly Preston and Tom Cruise have a short sex scene, but luckily it's near the beginning so I can skip that part for the kids.
At first glance I thought you were saying your kids were stupid!
Caligula... a movie in my opinion that has little redeeming value. I'm not one to vote movies one star because they 'depress' me like some do, but the torture scenes combined with the nudity... I didn't make it much past 30 minutes. Not my cup of tea... definitely not.
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Originally Posted by Cruzincat
At first glance I thought you were saying your kids were stupid!
that's what it sounds like to me. lol.
Here's a list of 50 disturbing films imdb posters came up with. What do you think?
50. The Strangers
49. d: CG Allin & the Junkies
48. Cannibal Holocaust
47. Irreversible
46. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
45. Meet the Feebles
44. I Stand Alone
43. Wolf Creek
42. The Cell
41. Soylent Green
40. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original)
39. Caligula (there we go)
38. Salo or The 120 Days of Sodom
37. I Spit On Your Grave
36. Splatter: Naked Blood
37. Squirmfest
36. Guinea Pig Series
35. In The Realm Of The Senses
34. The Last House on the Left
33. Pink Flamingos
32. Blood Diamond
31. Sick: The Life & of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
30. Oldboy
29. Suicide Club
28. Pretty Baby
27. Triumph of the Will
26. Nekromantic 1,2
25. Hotel Rwanda
24. Marathon Man (should be lower)
23. Taxi Driver
22. Resevoir Dogs
21. Bloodsucking Freaks
20. Shooting Dogs
19. American History X
18. A Clockwork Orange
17. The Ring
16. Saw
15. Hostel
14. Rambo (2008)
13. Sweeney Todd
12. Night of the Living Dead (Original)
11. Schindler's List
10. Videodrome
9. Eastern Promises
8. Men Behind the Sun
7. Ichi the killer
6. Audition
5. The Exorcist
4. August Underground's Mordum
3. Halloween (2007 version, disturbing as hell)
2. Thriller- A Cruel Picture (there you go)
1. American Psycho (The only movie to literally make me sick)
Agree with the Human Centipede 2 comment. Disgusting and I only watched a bit of it to see what the fuss was about.
The last movie that really turned me off was The Heat for some reason. I love both actresses but the movie was not funny. Even worse, I gave into whining by my teen to buy it at the supermarket and I did. We normally are careful with the R rated titles with the kids. My rather uptight hubby watched it with us and it seemed like every word out of McCarthey's mouth was a cuss word. Normally not prudish but I started cringing at every profanity because he was getting madder and madder. Couldn't get through the whole thing and it ended up in our trash can. Wouldn't have been as bad watching it by myself but with the family...............awkward!!! lol
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