**DO NOT** See The Hills Have Eyes (Spoilers)

I always truly detested slasher flicks, lol. I'm not one that thrives on blood and guts sensory overload I guess...it's not a moral objection, just a temperment kinda thing.

I wonder if for some, it's partly about bonding, communal experiences. A hazing sort of deal. You go to the theater with your friends just see how much you can take. Dunno.

Two genres I really need to see with other people to fully enjoy: comedies and horror movies. For me, they require more interaction with others as I'm watching them. You want to scream and laugh together, maybe talk as you're viewing them. Dramas, fantasies...I can watch those alone and just fall into that world...
 
I personally don't like horror movies, mainly because they are very rarely scary, Plus, blood and gore just doesn't bother me.

The only time I've ever cringed from a movie was "Saw 2" with those damn needles. Sheesh!
 
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Hero
ive never seen saw II, but i always hear mention of the needle scene. what happened there?
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BillieHunter
yea that scene was definitely cringe worthy...but nevertheless it was an amazing movie...the story was pretty much genius in my opinion
Buffy Summers said:
Just because it's not your thing, doesn't inherently make the movie bad.

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Absolutely. I detest lots of things, for all kinds of different reasons, lol.

I think people sometimes tend to dismiss the craft, skill that goes into something"”if the subject matter or genre repulses or bores them. I'd probably really, really love Firefly"”if I liked space operas or westerns. I enjoy it, and maybe even admire it...more than I actually "like" it.
 
Hero said:
Ok so that makes them being raped for like 20 minutes ok?
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Of course it doesnt make it ok, but it makes it slightly less horrific. Rape of a child always seems much worse than rape of an adult. Im not saying its better, Im just saying its less horrific.



I thought it did. Remember the scene where they loaded the mother and sister into the back of the truck? The bodies were in there and then they just vanished. For some reason it seemed to me like they were making a joke out of the bodies, not so much the kids themselves.
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Maybe you laughed but I didtn think it was poking fun at all. It was showing you that one of the bad guys was in the area, hence providing more suspense, since you didnt know where. The kids were crying and everything so I dont know where you get this poking fun thing. Its not like they were laughing and joking.



The one dog was gutted open, though I didn't watch most of it because I don't like that stuff at all. Then they even show one of the killers sitting on top of a rock tearing off one of its legs and eating it.
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Fair enough. So what youre saying is its ok to watch a person get gutted and eaten but not an animal?
And if you dont wanna see a person get gutten and eaten, why did you go see the movie?



There was one scene towards the end where the baby got hit. I think the little girl's name was Ruby, right? Well we'll call her that even if its not. LOL. Anyway. When she was running away with the baby because she didn't want the leader killer guy to kill it. They were up on that cliff and she was going to give the baby back to the Dead. When the killer jumped down he clearly hit the baby, probably trying to grap it. Plus, it doesn't count as battery, but the gun being held to the baby's head is kind of rough.
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I didnt see him hit the baby. I saw her fall with the baby in her arms, but the baby was clearly fine. And holding the gun to her head? Ive seen worse.

Basically you like horrors where people are being murdered and tortured, but not eaten and raped? Yes? So why did you go and see it? What did you think was gonna happen?
 
I saw the original... it was quite disturbing, I know if I do see the remake it will probably upset me and I will not be able to sleep... yet I am oddly curious
 
Well, I'm a big dog lover so that's why I got angry. I know it's stupid, but oh well.

And I really had no idea the movie was going to be that bad. I knew it was going to be a horror movie and there would be blood, but I had no clue people were going to be raped and it was going to be that bad.

The only thing I did like about the movie was the end where the husband went into that experiment town thing. He really got the crud kicked out of him, but at the same time he really kicked some himself.

The other thing I didn't like about the movie was how stupid some of the people were. The boy in the movie thought it was a good idea to keep it a secret that their dog was just eaten and there were people outside. I can understand not wanting to scare anyone, but come on! Same with the husband at the end when he shoots one of the guys and then drops the shot gun right next to one of the killers.

Buffy Summers - I know you weren't telling me not to share my opinion. In my opinion, the movie was bad and I'm not recommending it to anyone. And being a 17-year-old, my opinion is law... or so we all seem to think. lol
 
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ha....i wish my opinion was law...but i dont know if anyone would like my world
Hero said:
And I really had no idea the movie was going to be that bad. I knew it was going to be a horror movie and there would be blood, but I had no clue people were going to be raped and it was going to be that bad.
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I thought it was obvious what kind of movie it would be.


The other thing I didn't like about the movie was how stupid some of the people were. The boy in the movie thought it was a good idea to keep it a secret that their dog was just eaten and there were people outside. I can understand not wanting to scare anyone, but come on!
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I thought he was the only sensible person in the whole movie. He was thinking clearly through pretty much all of it.
he's the reason he and his sister survived

Same with the husband at the end when he shoots one of the guys and then drops the shot gun right next to one of the killers.
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Yeah that had me shouting at the screen.

And btw, some people havent seen it yet and youre talking about the end without hiding it. Just cos you dont want people to go see it, doesnt mean they want bits ruined for them.

Where are you? America? Whats an R rating? Cos here the film was an 18 so technically, you shouldnt have seen it anyway. Its given that rating for a reason you know 😛
 
So then, Buffy Summers, if you see this thread add a big SPOILERS thing to the title.

You thought they survived because of him? I know it would be a really short movie but,
If he did say something then they all might have made it, except for the father. They could have all stayed inside where it is safe and if one of those guys tried to get in they had a gun. He is really inventive with his traps though. The whole wire and baby rattle thing. It didn't really work though if you think about it. The tumble weed set it off and then the other guy was able to sneak in.

The other thing I didn't like was the, "Let's go home..." ending! That made me so mad. The little girl was just raped and killed someone. The mother and father were murdered. The sister was raped and got her head blown off. The baby was abducted. One of their family pets eaten. Car totalled. Trailer thing blown up. Killed a bunch of mutated people. They're stuck in the middle of the desert and they're like... "oooh happy time let's go home." I was like... WHAT?!

Oh, and the last few seconds confused me. It went to that camera angle, does that mean they were being watched by another bad guy?

Buffy Summers - Yeah, it's the same in Jersey too. I've seen some really wimpy rated R horror movies so that's why I was shocked.
 
Hero said:
You thought they survived because of him? I know it would be a really short movie but,
If he did say something then they all might have made it, except for the father. They could have all stayed inside where it is safe and if one of those guys tried to get in they had a gun. He is really inventive with his traps though. The whole wire and baby rattle thing. It didn't really work though if you think about it. The tumble weed set it off and then the other guy was able to sneak in.
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Yeah.
If he had been as bad as his sister or as impulsive as Doug then he and his sister would be dead. Yeah he never mentioned the dog but he thought he was doing the right thing. and to be fair he tried to tell doug. Imagine he told the girls. They'd either freak out or not believe him. Either way not what was needed. He thought Doug would be able to help.
However, his rational thinking helped him keep his sister safe. They survived didnt they?
The other thing I didn't like was the, "Let's go home..." ending! That made me so mad. The little girl was just raped and killed someone. The mother and father were murdered. The sister was raped and got her head blown off. The baby was abducted. One of their family pets eaten. Car totalled. Trailer thing blown up. Killed a bunch of mutated people. They're stuck in the middle of the desert and they're like... "oooh happy time let's go home." I was like... WHAT?!

Oh, and the last few seconds confused me. It went to that camera angle, does that mean they were being watched by another bad guy?
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Yeah there were obviously more of them.
The ending did annoy me. Not because of everything that happened but because
they were in the middle of the desert. If they couldnt do anything when they were altogether before they knew there were bad guys, how could they when there was just 3 of them.But as for because of everything that happened, they were just glad it was over. Or at least they thought it was. It would have been a big relief. And they would have been in shock. It probably wouldnt hit them til they were home. That is, if they could find a way.
 
Yeah, he did keep her alive. He tried to tell Doug, but by then it was too late. You just don't keep something like that a secret though. Yeah they would have freaked out, but it's better than having people sleeping outside where it's less safe. Safety in numbers.

Oh, and was I the only one who thought it was soooo obvious they were going to steal the baby? I knew from the second they put the baby by the window when it was still daylight that they were going to take it.

We don't know how the movie ends, but my guess is they won't make it out of the desert.
 
I have to say I went to see it and I don't think it's really as bad as you made it out to be. Sure it's gory, but it's not THAT bad. I think a lot of the time they were just trying to use shock value with a lot of the gore and I guess it worked. I thought it was a truly freaky film, I loved it. I did pick plot holes through the whole things though, but horror is never supposed to be applauded for it's story really. I do wish they had of explored the backstory a bit more, explained a little more on the nuclear aspect, but I think you seem to glorify it when it really isn't as bad as it seems.
 
Well here's a shocker for you. I was going around my classroom on Friday marking the kids maths work over their shoulders when I heard one of the boys talking about a film. This film sounded very familiar so I listened in (as you do) I then realised that he was describing the very film that this thread is about.

I questioned him on it and apparently he'd seen a pirated copy of the film... He didn't think it was that scary just had a few DIRTY bits in it..

Oh did I mention I teach 9 year olds... I was shocked. I mean I know you are all saying it isn't as bad as the first post described but MY GOD! Would you let an 9 year old see it... I BLOODY wouldn't.
 
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It's pretty ridiculous what parents let young kids watch these days...my friends little brother was watching R rated movies from the time he was 7 or 8...
Oh my god! I sure as hell wouldnt. Thats ridiculous. Im not even sure about recommending it to my adult friends.
 
I can remember as a little kid, friends describing their reactions to Alien, An American Werewolf in London. Somehow, they got to see them. Maybe it was on cable...I was really curious, but I was too much of a fraidy cat to see them til I was a little older. There is so much mainstream press analysis of current horror films out there right now...

Every decade or so, horror gets hot in Hollywood. This latest shockwave, though, is larger"”and much more grotesque. You could sew together a whole new person from all the severed body parts in the "Saw" movies, "Hostel" and Fox Searchlight's remake of Wes Craven's "The Hills Have Eyes." It's not jokey violence, either. "Filmmakers now have the ability to put viewers directly into the shoes of the victims going through these horrible things, in an almost documentary way," says Bob Weinstein, whose "Scream" franchise for Dimension Films launched the last horror fad in 1996. Some critics"”smart ones like New York Magazine's David Edelstein, not just nervous Nellies"”argue that the trend verges on "torture porn." Even people within the industry are torn. "It's not the violence that bothers me so much as the tone. A George Romero movie was so political and funny and subversive," says Picturehouse Films president Bob Berney, who marketed "The Passion of the Christ." "To me, these newer movies are purely sadistic." Then again, he adds, "I remember my parents saying stuff like this, and I ignored it. They wouldn't let me see 'A Clockwork Orange,' and I went 25 times."

No one's stacking "Saw 2" alongside Stanley Kubrick, but it is true that such films tend to look smarter with the passage of time. It's practically a cliché that you can tease out a generation's subconscious fears just by watching its horror movies

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12015261/site/newsweek/
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thanks for posting that article...it was interesting
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