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Over time people become desensitized to violence, gore, hard core sex, porn, in order to keep filling seats, the filmakers have to keep pushing the envelope of whats acceptable/ tolerable.
What is 'hard core/ extreme' today, will be tame in 10-15 yrs, and so on and so on.
I won’t watch gory films. Classic horror (like “Frankenstein” and “Dracula” from the 30s) is fine, as is non-bloody suspense (such as Hitchcock pre-Psycho).
I watched “The House that Jack Built” a couple of days ago. It is extremely disturbing, but not any gorier, or maybe not even as gory, as many slasher/splatter horror movies. What is disturbing is the depravity, sadism and cruelty of the serial killer protagonist.
Matt Dillon was terrific as Jack.
Jack is a very good engineer who really wanted to be an architect, but he couldn't even design his own house to his own satisfaction. He is obviously a psychopath, and he also has severe OCD. He doesn't seem to have any friends. Jack recalls 5 incidents in his life that are so horrible that they deserve condemnation. They stay with you – they even affected my dreams for a couple of nights. He seems to consider them to be works of art. We occasionally see old videos of Glenn Gould playing Bach, which Jack apparently considers to be one of the pinnacles of art.
All the time he carries conversations with the voice of Verge, who we eventually decide is the ancient Roman poet Virgil, the same Virgil who guided Dante through purgatory and hell in the "Divine Comedy." He eventually guides Jack through hell in a visually stunning, horrifying extended sequence, which I rewatched several times.
I would have been one of the people who stood up and cheered at the end of “The House that Jack Built” at the Cannes Film Festival, but I understand why some walked out and would never criticize them for doing that.
This is why I personally choose to refrain from the vast majority of modern-era horror movies. I'm actually a big fan of classic horror movies. I can certainly stomach SOME gore when well-utilized, but not these mindless torture-porn-gorefests whose brand of gore isn't scary, anyways, just disgusting.
I agree and cant watch Saw movies or anything like them. horrible disgusting movie that give crazy people crazy ideas.
I feel the same way about Squid Games and all those other dystopian torture-shock shows & movies. Not that I always need a feel-good happy-ending, but it's lazy filmmaking an really makes me miss the days of quality drama when everything wasn't a gorefest, superhero action or kids' movie.
Finally, some of you who get the real point: gore is just that, gorey, splattery, over the top, and can be funny. It's the cruelty, the reveling in the pain of others, whether adults, children, or animals, that turns my stomach. The callousness is bad enough, but the enjoyment of it is sickening. I've seen every zombie picture in existence (thanks DH), but the movie I regret was Funny Games, which I will never be able to get out of my head.
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