Ok so just talking with a good friend of mine and we brought up good movies. More specifically, horror movies. Why is the trend now to show people getting tortured and ripped apart? When you watch a movie like that ask yourself, does it really scare you? or does it just make you unconfortable? Perhaps the concept of being kidnapped and tortured is scary but actually watching the torture isn't really scary. Whatever happened to letting the viewers imagination do all the work and if left to do so it does a surprisingly good job. Here's an example, you see a scene of a room that's dimly lit and in it are tables covered in torture devices and tools and blood stains all over the place, perhaps an arm here or a leg there (keeping it subtle of course)that to me leaves me wondering wow what the hell happened here and the notion of not knowing what exactly happened is terrifying to me than seeing that same scene only the difference is you are watching what is happening to the poor victim. I read alot of horror graphic novels and I love them because they are on paper they can't show the whole scene in action so they do what I think movies should do and they show the before and after of these terrible scenes but they never show the during. That's why they work, sure every now and then watching a monster take someone down is fine but if an entire movie consists of that it looses its scariness quickly. I don't know I just hate how crappy movies have been lately and don't even get me started on the new kids movies these days "Genetically Altered FBI Hamsters" talk about lame and if I were a kid I would never want to go see that movie. Haha anyways my rant is over now I guess and please keep in mind these are just my opinions obviously people differ and whatever that's all fine and dandy but being a Horror Genre fanatic as I am I just feel that we are due for a serious overhaul in the movie industry for good horror movies. That's all I have to say on that...

Kel