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Flith....

I've seen all the Hostel movies, Saw movies, Base Moi, Gummo, Nekromanik and a Serbian Film. Yet, I found Filth harder to watch then all of them. The thing is with all of those torture porn films, you build up a tolerance throughout the film, so though you may be watching something horrific, you were watching something horrific five minutes ago so you've become sort of cold to it throughout the movie.

Whereas with Filth, it's lovely and funny, then it's HORRIBLE, then light and whimsical, THEN DISGUSTING, then thought provoking and emotional, then just plain NASTY. It's up and down so much, all the way through, that I really found it a hard watch, and I don't think I would ever watch it again.

That being said, it was very good, first time I've ever disliked James McAvoy, and I didn't realise until the very end that the guy with glasses was the horrific guy from Tyrannosaur, so great acting throughout, really funny parts and I guess I'd give it a 7.5/10

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Old school or new school?

Watched a good few old school films over the last couple of years. The early Hammer vampire stuff. 1958 Dracula etc.

I doubt my girlfriend will be up for the hammer stuff, I've watched some of the Michael Gough & Christopher Lee's Hammer stuff and enjoyed them tho.

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I just watched 'Braindead' and I really don't get why it's praised so highly within the horror community. Then again I don't really watch a lot of horror. I found some scenes to be funny but overall it's just really weird. It's basically just pure gore.

Also I only found out afterwards Peter Jackson directed it. Weird to think how different this is to any of his more recent stuff, i.e LOTR.

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I just watched 'Braindead' and I really don't get why it's praised so highly within the horror community. Then again I don't really watch a lot of horror. I found some scenes to be funny but overall it's just really weird. It's basically just pure gore.

Also I only found out afterwards Peter Jackson directed it. Weird to think how different this is to any of his more recent stuff, i.e LOTR.

Its about context, when it came out - it was one of the goriest things ever, and it had a massive cult following at the time. People wearing rose tinted spectacles invariably havent watched said object of their affections for a long time. very few movies age well imho.

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There are only a handful of films that have genuinely scared me. Perhaps unsettled is a better word. Quiet, quiet, quiet, BANG! seems to be most horror films now. Making somebody jump is a cheap trick and not the same as scaring them. Jaws, Halloween and The Omen, especially the latter, have all deeply unsettled me. I can't even do a length at the pool without thinking "What if a great white was released from one end as i'm halfway down? Could i make it?". With Halloween, its that mask. All Michael Myers has to do is stand still at one end of a corridor to have me bricking it. That mask is the face of evil i tell you! But the daddy of them all is The Omen. Directed by Richard Donner, with Gregory Peck leading, its heavyweight stuff and played dead straight as a psychological thriller. I only have to hear a few seconds of Jerry Goldsmiths chilling score to be whimpering like a coward behind the sofa.

Stuff like Hostel and the later Saw films - i quite enjoyed the first - have made me feel old for the first time. I find them repulsive and can't understand what the appeal is. Watching them, it is clear that the film makers are only interested in new and horrific ways of killing/torturing people and then draping those scenes over a threadbare plot. I can understand the urge to see something that might frighten you, but why would anyone want to see Hostel 3 or Human Centipede when you know it is just scenes of torture and murder strung together? Does anyone else think the same? Am i an old git?

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I'm looking at Blade Runner: The Final Cut and District 9 on the table in front of me. Which one should i watch? Seen neither.

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