(November 4, 2021 at 10:58 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I’m usually desensitized to horror, and watching a lot of it (plus getting watching real footage of actual atrocities) is probably a good part of it. If you’ve seen enough footage of actual deaths, seeing a slasher killer slaughter some random teens who are drinking, screwing, taking drugs, or saying they’ll be right back loses its mystique.
The most recent movie I can remember legit scaring me was Antichrist. Why? Well, watching Charlotte Gainsbourg smash Willem Dafoe’s bollocks and then jacking him off till he comes blood and then topping it off by cutting off her own clit is probably a good reason. Maybe Human Centipede, but the sequels turning into miserable pieces of shit (to the point where the last one is the only So bad It’s Horrible film on TVtropes I’ve point-blank refused to include into the Deep Hurting Project), plus South Park mocking it, have significantly dulled the horror.
Also, more recently, I just discovered Uzumaki and I have to ask: when you hear the phrase “vampire babies”, what comes to mind? Whatever images you’ve conjured in your head, Junji Ito’s made something hundreds of times more disturbing. It’s unsettled even me.
Fascinating.
Just thought of a film which horrified me as an adult; The Passion Of The Christ. Have never been able to watch it all. Truly seems sadistic to the point of pornography to me. The only thing which gave me some concern was the responses of some believers. They thought it was just fucking dandy.
Haven't see Antichrist. Thanks for the review, can't say I find it appealing.
