DISQUS

Tenika · 8 months ago

Let me start off by saying I have not seen LHOTHL but I really don't want to. The problem I think with movies like this is that they actually are nowhere near as horrifying as they think. Movies like this spend so much time trying to shock you that they forget about making the movie any good. Truly scary movies don't need to horrify the audience. I'm telling you the next movie is going to have someone kick a baby in the face. You heard it hear first.

RobertFure · 8 months ago

Normally I'd probably defend graphic depictions of rape and violence as heightening the impact of the act (which, in a horror movie, is generally appropriate), but I just watched a movie that I'm embargoed from talking about that I'm going to utterly mutilate for it's depictions of violence, rape, and other nasty things, so I would feel a bit hypocritical. But then again, the movie I saw full of violence and rape was a "comedy."

Anyway, I get what you're saying Kevin, though I probably don't really agree with it, in that people who go to these movies sometimes want to see that stuff. I would, however, be entirely on board with you in regards to you not liking the movie - it is entirely possible that a person understands a movie completely and still doesn't like it. I'm so no one missed the "message" of Epic Movie, but we all still hated it.

_Christopher_M · 8 months ago

Observe & Report?

RobertFure · 8 months ago

Not supposed to talk about it. ;)

Tenika · 8 months ago

So when can you talk about it? :)

_Christopher_M · 8 months ago

I just think you're squeamish and it's normal to have that feeling when seeing rape being depicted on screen...although it wasn't the first or last time it will be...it's a serious and violent thing it happens in real life...art imitates life

If you took the rape scenes out of these great films they wouldn't be the same....it's uncomfortable for a reason and it always isn't for exploitation purposes...

Straw Dogs, Platoon, A Clockwork Orange, Rosemary's Baby, Boys Don't Cry, Deliverance

Last House on the Left is a "exploitation" horror film it was originally and so is the remake....did you understand this concept before viewing the remake?...I Spit On Your Grave is on the same lines...the point is to shock the audience to a disturbing level...and it seems to have worked on you very well...

[youtube yKCys3sd8Bw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKCys3sd8Bw youtube]

Atomic Popcorn · 8 months ago

"these scenes are not really shocking any more like the original" This is very very sad that we are so numb to this that no one cares anymore. This has got to be the worst thing any man could do to any woman and we are okay with it on film. I say let people think what they want to and let it go from there. Some of the craziest films I have seen made my mind wandered and THAT is what scared the crap out of me, not what was or wasn't on screen.

b.rae · 8 months ago

WRONG. the worst thing a man can do to a woman is the dutch oven.

Frighty Mcgee · 8 months ago

As someone who writes and makes horror movies, I can say that what you don't show can have a lot more impact than what you do show. Many horror filmmakers today seem to miss that and push these visuals on audiences that don't need to be there. But because of some primal dark side to younger gens and even to an extent some older folks, they eat it up.

I personally don't have a problem with seeing those things on screen. For me, they SHOULD have a purpose and not just be gratuitous in nature. Sometimes the director wants to make the audience uncomfortable, they leave these visions, these actions on screen for obscene amounts of time or show way more than what's actually needed to get an idea across. Sometimes it's just for the sake of shocking people.

Whatever it's for, it does work. It gets butts in the seats. That's what all studios want and directors and so on down the line. As long as audiences eat it up, it doesn't matter what level your tastes are at, the movies will keep delivering.

Unnecessary? Yeah, in most cases. But everyone wants to emulate these movies that caused this stir back then such as the original LHOTL. What the people remaking them today don't get is that it's been done, the affect is way weaker than it was back then. What they do get is that it's cheap cinema and makes money.

Even Wes Craven talked about how some of the things in the old movie were inappropriate for the new movie. Why they made the rape scene the way they did with the new movie, who knows. But it did it's job.

ANGRYBROOMSTICK · 8 months ago

your review sums up why I'm not a fan of Takeshi Miike's stupid movies.

mschaefer15 · 8 months ago

You want to know something crazy.... When I went to go see this movie last weekend there was a husband and wife in this movie with their son, who could not have been more than 4 years old.

chille · 8 months ago

THAT'S messed up

Rob_Hunter · 8 months ago

Whoa whoa whoa Miss Broomstick. Sounds like you've watched the opening ten minutes of Miike's 'Ichi the Killer' then never went back. Give 'Happiness of the Katakuris' a try before you write the man's films off all together. It's a beautiful movie about family love and the inevitability of death (and zombies).

Katie · 8 months ago

I completely and utterly agree with you.