First, understand that I do not like horror movies. I don’t like being scared. I have never understood why people like gory films like the Saw series, or watched the latest episode in a slasher flick series. The last movie that frightened me that I paid to see was Silence of the Lambs. Before that, it was the original Alien. As you can see, I really don’t go for the scary films. I expect a lot of my problem with them is that I get completely involved in the film that I’m watching. My disbelief is not just suspended, it waits for me out in the car until the movie is over. So what happens in the film seems pretty real to me, ergo, not wanting to be scared.
Every once in a very long while, though, a horror movie draws my attention. This time, it’s Daybreakers. So what I would like to know is: How bloody is it going to be? Because after scary things, gore is my least favorite part of a movie. Brutal violence (like there was in Pan’s Labyrinth, which was too brutal for me, though not too gory) is also a big no-no.
If any of my readers go see it next week, I would greatly appreciate a violence/blood estimate. I saw three reviews of Alien, read more in the newspapers, and knew exactly when the alien was going to pop out of the guy’s chest, so I did not watch the scene. (I have since been able to, what with, uh, twenty years having passed and my realizing it’s not that bad a scene after all.)
The trailers for Daybreakers are really intriguing me. And of course, it’s a good vampire movie: One that acknowledges that vampires are creepy, evil demons of the night that need to be staked, not made out with. And it turns around the end-of-the-world plague from zombies to vampires, which is a pretty neat idea. Smart monsters. Whoa.
I won’t be going next weekend, obviously. But I may be going if it’s not too brutal and bloody.
Update: Never mind. A friend of mine found a review that mentions buckets of blood and gore. Pass.
I can’t watch horror movies BUT I can watch bloody documentaries-I’m a History Channel addict- until the cows come home. Maybe it’s do to my being the autistic spectrum-or maybe I’m just a weird person(so says Mr. Twerp).
I tried to see if Joe Bob Briggs had done a review of it. Bloody horror movies are right up his drive–in alley; one of his measures of the worth of a drive-in movie is pints of blood. Alas, I got no result from the search. Obviously it does not play at drive-ins.
You know. I’m the big “gun guy”… Six foot 4. Jumped out of planes, and done just about everything. And yet I loath and hate horror movies. I can’t stand the ones were the obvious thing isn’t done. And then the saw movies just plain freaked me out. The first one that is. The rest were just recycling with less plot and thought.
My wife thinks it’s crazy that I can’t stand them. She loves them. I can’t even watch TV around Halloween while she gets her fix. The new “nightmare on elm street is her current movie she wants to see.
“The Descent” is a recent movie that was pretty darn scary. And has strong female leads to boot.