One of the best because it 'went there.'
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Sox575 — 9 years ago(July 16, 2016 05:03 AM)
I think the issue with horror movies nowadays is that most will follow the formula pattern and the characters do things that we as audience members know they shouldn't be doing (especially when it's been spoofed and described in DETAIL in "Scream") so when we see this happening it ruins the suspension of disbelief. Like in the remake of When A Stranger Calls the baby sitter does
everything
you know not to do (like walking around in a dark room and then leaving the security of a locked house to go and check on a guest house where the lights keep going on and off and no one answers the phone), and so the audience no longer buys the whole scenario.
In the original WASC the viewer doesn't actually see the kids being murdered; we hear about it and get the description and then later
we see the killer in a flashback in the kids' room covered in blood
so it's our imaginations that fill in the blank. Same with the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre because a lot of viewers thought it was really gory but it was only the last few minutes that were really bloody; everything else was filled in by the viewer's imagination (which is sometimes scary than actually seeing anything). I myself thought that TCM was really gory until I watched one of the special features on the DVD and it was described how the movie wasn't as gruesome as many thought it was
, so I watched it again and they were right.
Engelhaft, I don't know if you've seen the remake of WASC, but if you do, I'd like to know what you think of it. I was cringing and rooting for the killer to get the main character.
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