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recent Torture/Horror trend stems from...
The Passion of the Christ!
Now I'm not one of those believers,(and mean absolutely no offense to those of you out there who are) but I know good story and good mythology. The story of the Christ is compelling stuff, healing, miracles, dying for sins,...all good story telling elements.
But this film...
Mel managed to turn this epic bit of Mythology into a snuff film with 10 times the gore of Hostel. The scourging scene made me squirm. Mel has some sort of "you must suffer to be a man" thing going on, that is alternately ridiculous and titilating. (torture scene in Lethal Weapon, anyone?)
I told all of my friends that it was the best horror film of the year - hell Mel even threw in an androgynous devil character who lurks around menacingly like Damein.
It showed that you could load a film with torture and gore and make a mint!
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"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."
Earl of Chesterfield
"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
Francis Bacon
Last edited by Roderick Usher; 08-24-2006 at 05:18 PM.
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