Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Shock Value...
I'm enjoying Shock Value so far, but I wish it were longer and more inclusive of other directors in horror besides the ones that come immediately to mind.
Horror which relies exclusively on excessive gore and unrelenting punishment a la Saw style (sometimes referred to as "torture porn") has kind of made me cynical about a lot of horror, but I did recently (kind of) enjoy Insidious, a film that seems to remember true scares work better with a "less is more" mentality.
The visuals (especially one of a ghost child skipping through a living room to the sounds of an old record) got under my skin and after the movie was over I found myself turning on all the lights on, something I almost never do when I've finished something scary.
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