I've never found horror movies that scary, I don't know why. Maybe it's because I've been watching them from a young age or because I'm dead inside? I'll probably never really know but because of my lack of fear i'm always on the lookout for something that might scare my pants off, usually they fail. Accept Twilight, it scares me that that film was made, released and has a fan base. Ahhh, youth of today. Anyway, The Loved Ones was recommended to me by a friend, she's a bit like me and doesn't get scared of much and she said that it really freak her out so I was in there!
Yes, the tagline annoyed me too. "Prom night can be torture"? Seriously? Well I was able to look past it and watch the movie. It annoyed me (many things do). Not only did I not find it scary, I just found it disgusting. Its, as the title says, senseless torture porn, and its just masquerading as horror. Seriously, I sat through an hour and a half of the film and it was just a guy getting tortured. Sure he got away occasionally but its not like I was at the edge of my seat praying for his survival. We may have gotten flashbacks that add some context to the film, and of course incestuous undertones (my father would highly disapprove) but it was NOT a horror movie.
Is anyone else annoyed of these flicks pretending to be horror? I mean I enjoyed watching the first couple dozen saws but lets call a spade a spade, its TORTURE PORN not horror. It's not suspenseful, theres no real storyline (to be fair, theres no real storyline in horror movies anymore. Maybe thats why it isn't frigtening), and I need something other than body parts flying around to get me invested in the film. Im not saying that all torture porn is bad, I mean I'd class Creep as both torture porn and ligit horror, and I love that film. But seriously, just because theres murder in a film doesn't make it a horror film. Don't call it that. In front of me.
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