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Originally Posted by KelMilagro
I have spent time trying to word this question. We all love Horror, for different reasons, we have our favorite films, novels, television shows, the list could go on.
However, because, we love Horror so much, where it has inspired some of us.
Does Horror have a measurement, to what is acceptable, not controversial shocking new or different, or painful? Or, do we, like me, accept everything Horror presents us with like "A Serbian Film" and have different understandings of what the Writer, Director, or Actors may have meant for us to understand like noticing the real problems of the world.
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It depends. I wrote a review a little while back for Dead Girl(2008). Basically saying its a sexist, misogynistic, piece of shit. Something like that doesn't make us cringe in a way we 'need' to. It just reinforces women as bodies without character, in this case, to be raped repeatedly.
I could completely be wrong here, but the idea is sound. I'm referring to Martyrs(2008), and that I haven't seen it. From the trailer and what I've read the film it looks like it doesn't hide from the reality of sex trafficking. That the women have depth and the horror is how they are treated. Not cringing at some blood and guts, but the probability of it occurring in real life. So if I'm wrong about Martyrs, the idea is still the same in that if something is to make a statement or to make us feel something we try not to/ignore due to its unpleasantness that it has value to me.
That's all about the torture porn genre.
Stopping there, someone else please continue the discussion. Do not want to fill pages with my text. : )