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  1. 18 hours ago, J.T. said:

    Looks like Daniel Craig's scrapped Dr Strange / Multiverse of Madness character, Balder the Brave, may be getting his own gig. 

    If it ends with him getting taken out with mistletoe then Craig will be approaching Sean Bean territory for dying onscreen.

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  2. I would never read that idiot's book but these nuggets keep popping up in my news feed. Bad enough that he wished death on Reeves and called Heath Ledger and River Phoenix geniuses merely so he could elevate himself by association, but then he had to try and embarrass Salma Hayek and Valerie Bertinelli. To paraphrase @The Natural, fuck Matthew Perry.   

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  3. 20 hours ago, J.T. said:

    Eh, if the only qualifier for splatter horror is gore factor, then nearly all horror films are splatter horror.  I tend to have more defined lines of demarcation.  

    Yes, zombie movies have a lot of gory effects in them, but they are much different than something like August Underground: Mordum, Guinea Pig / Flowers of Flesh & Blood, The Red Room, or Men Behind the Sun.  For starters, not very many splatter horror films have the acidic critique of society in general that most zombie movies have.  Most zombie movies are remarkably substantive while most splatter movies are not, IMO.

    I also do not classify most giallo as splatter, because I think that does a disservice to the giallo genre.  "Splatter" has a very negative connotation with me, so I tend to classify movies that are gory and violent for the sake of being gory and violent and also ones that I don't particularly care for as "splatter" for the most part, with Pieces and Dead Alive being notable exceptions.

    I am a snob and an elitist.  Yes, I am.

    I'm pretty much in tune with all of this. It's not so much gore that I don't like but what is the purpose for it's presence. Gore in a war film? No problem. Gore in a TV show like Banshee? Thinking specifically of the Burton vs. Nola Longshadow fight, there is so much going on in that scene that the gore bits have a useful plot purpose. Giallos have a mystery element that makes the story engaging. It's fine not to like them but they're not just women getting slashed to death left and right. I also agree with your point about zombie films even though there are very few of those (aside from the comedic ones) that I care to watch. Any type of gore film with a heavy supernatural element is potentially something I can enjoy because of course there is going to be dire consequences for dealing with these forces. That's as old as storytelling, from Prometheus getting his liver eaten by an eagle to giants grinding human bones for bread. Some of the fairy-tales that were in the libraries of my youth were gory as hell.

    But gore films where the sole purpose is to show you how awful human beings can be? You can keep all of that. I'm not interested in real-life serial killer stuff or torture porn or crazy fuckers putting limbs through meat grinders or anything like it.

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  4. 6 hours ago, RIPPA said:

    I still refuse to see Mordum and whatever these other pictures are

     

    I like that even Curt has a line he won't cross.

    Goddamn this place, randomly deciding not to embed links.

     

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  5. 1 hour ago, Robert s said:

    The whole bit was to great. Colbert led a couple of kids (maybe 8-ish) through the "process" to come up with a "script" for a horror movie. Then they took that script and made a trailer out of it. Words cannot describe the thing, so see for yourself:

     

    I was with them until Imagine Dragons.

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