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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl
YES. My mind is a bit mushy right now so I'm scrambling for examples of this - What comes to mind for you?
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I think I'd just watched
Snuff 102 when I posted that (Argentinian art-housey thing with more of a plot than I expected but pretensions to "asking important questions").
It has some very convincing faux-snuff scenes which they obviously put some time and effort into, yet along with most of them went a soundtrack so loud that you couldn't even hear the screaming. With just the "real world" sound those scenes would have been genuinely disturbing and unsettling - the music just ruined it I thought.
I think I agree about
Sinister, not a bad film imo despite lots of plot holes lol. But yes music is over-relied on there.
In contrast I watched
7 Days last night - not strictly horror though a bit gruesome in places - which has no score whatsoever throughout and shows how feelings really don't need to be manipulated by music in a good film.