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IYO, Gory = scary?

  • 03-06-2007 10:43pm
    #1
    unreggd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,835 ✭✭✭


    It seems that all the latest films waste so much time bein the most gory, they let everything else go to the dogs

    But i dont think Gore is scary at all, its gory!


    Fear and disgust are 2 completely different feelings, that seem to have acquired the same meaning, for example Saw 3


    So what you think? Is bucket loads of blood and guts scary????

    Is gore [graphic blood/guts/organs/black stuff] scary??? 9 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    0% 0 votes
    Sometimes
    100% 9 votes


Comments

  • #2
    irishash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishash


    i agree.

    most horror movies these days seem to concentrate on the shocking images they can put forward in order to make the audience squirm in their seats. but whenever i seen images like this i am more interested in how they did it, because i know it is fake and most of the time they cannot even create the lie that it is fake (low budget, bad fx).

    i am more terrified by movies like blair witch, halloween, jaws - movies that concentrate on athmosphere and dread than shock and gore. some movies mirrior the two and work (dario argento movies for one, sam raimi's first 2 evil deads for another) but they are not that many out there. i tend to think the golden age for horror was the 70's and even though more horror movies are been made today than ever before, 99% are not of a high quality.


  • #3
    Rhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    Only certain gore scares me.

    eg. Evil Dead; none of the gore scared me at all but the
    pencil in the ankle
    freaked the Hell out of me.

    eg. Saw 3;
    Only really the bit at the start with the guy covered in chains, freaked me out. When he pulls the rings out of his hip and ankle i flinched

    I'm sure there is a pattern to what i'm afraid of regarding gore, i just haven't figured it all out. I think Brain Dead de-sensitised me to a lot of blood n' guts.


  • #4
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Gore isn't supposed to be scary, it's supposed to be gorey. You say yourself that fear and disgust are two different feelings, and I think it should be perfectly obvious that gore films are trying to evoke a different feeling than a film that relies on atmosphere and scares.

    It's like two different genres of Horror.


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