Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Well here you go...

A few things about me, I am not a writer. I am a chef. I am angry for no reason, but my friends can attest that I can fly off tha handle over the smallest thing. This is attempt to correct all that.

I assume that this blog will focus mostly on horror but it will also hit on anything that interests me, Cooking, Metal, what have you...And here you go...

A little about the so called "torture porn" genre. I just finished watching Hostel. Now I can understand the "porn" part, there is an incredible amount of nudity by some very good looking eastern Europeans. So that was greatly appreciated. The last 20 minutes are very violent but porn and torture? Not so much. I assumed that there would be close ups of aputations, teeth getting pulled out, fingers being cut off(ok that happened). The term pornography to me means total exploitation, something where nothing is sacred. Hostel had none of that. Granted that some Japanese girl had her eye drilled out and hanging(not shown) and the "hero" cut it off(shown and the best part of the movie), but how can this country freak out so much over this. We are currently involved in two wars, only one of which is justified and that gets little to nothing in terms of press coverage. Compared to Italian horror from the 70's this is Spongebob, a very well made movie but very weak on the gore. Movies like "Suspiria", "Zombie" "Cannibal Holocaust" and even "Dawn Of The Dead" have been released here that have been far more gory. So what the fuck is this torture porn shit coming from? Goddamn conservatives is where.

When i was a kid I caught "Friday the 13th" on cable in 3rd grade. Same with the "Exorcist" which I proudly told my family I would be watching that night. Did it scare me? Fuck yes, didn't sleep for days. Was I upset,hell no. I saw the holy grail of horror, "Night of the Living Dead" in 8th grade, I kept on waking up at night for a week seeing the first zombie in the movie after he killed johnny getting up to eat me, you know what I thought, holy fuck this movie rules to have scared me so much. We need to not be so scared of cinema and get scared of reality... war, poverty, and genocide.

So there you have it, get ready for more anger and please comment if you would like. This is America, unlike most, I won't be offended.

1 comment:

Aylita said...

Very good points, uri. Watched the trilogy de mort last night (evil dead). Liked #1, #2 was ok, Army was AWESOME and really really strange.