Horror movies aren't as scary as they used to be. The violence and gore no longer has the same effect, and even the spooky stuff is losing its power. Violent action scenes no longer have the power they used to, no matter how many fancy sound & editing tricks are used, or how realistic the CGI explosions are splatter become.
After much consideration, I believe I have worked out why: real life itself is so violent and terrifying, horror movies can barely keep up.
The only way to save horror is to get the violence off the streets and out of the war zones and out of the privacy of the family home, and back in movies and books where it belongs!
So I'm announcing the formation of a new pressure group: Movie Violence Fans Against Real-Life Violence. Who's with me?
Posted by joey at October 11, 2007 12:17 PMI'm on it, as long as we get to win a Nobel Prize in the end. That's my new ambition. Guess I'm out of the running for Physics and Chemistry at this point, but I figure I still have a shot at Peace or Literature (hey, a gal can dream).
My thought is first we kill all the lawyers. After that, things will get easier.
Posted by: Kate at October 13, 2007 3:13 AMI'm glad you kept it inclusive - "movie fans against violence" rather than "horror movie fans."
I'm in!
I'm sure Pete Jackson will sign up, too.
Posted by: Finn at October 15, 2007 9:32 AMBest activist group this year. Another thing we can blame on the CIA and their systematic destabilisation of the world.
Beware the new group doesn't get too subversive though, looks a prime candidate to go terrorist to me.
Posted by: Ben at October 15, 2007 11:00 PM