Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted September 14, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 14, 2016 I thought Catfish was real... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 (edited) Devil's Experiment I could totally understand being taken as real, I really don't think I could ever watch that again. I wouldn't be surprised if that was what influenced the Junko Furuta murder. Edited September 14, 2016 by Merzbow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted September 14, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 14, 2016 (edited) Wasn't there a serial killer in Japan who was obsessed with the "Mermaid in the Manhole" one? I'm nearly sure of this. Edited September 14, 2016 by bAzTNM#1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted September 14, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 14, 2016 I can't understand why anybody would watch those sort of flicks (J-Horror and Faux Snuff) for entertainment. I actually like the Saw movies, and your Collectors and the like, but your Irreversibles (Bellucci in the nip aside) and a Serbian Film (which I watched with a friend who was reviewing it for Phantom FM) absolutely horrified me to the point where I couldn't sleep for weeks. As did Green Inferno. It was the imagery and the suggestion that absolutely unnerved me and kept me awake. I am a man who loves his movies, and pretty much all genres, but the utterly nasty flicks with no point other than to shock and disgust people are lost on me.I mean, one of my all time favourite movies is legitimately Tiny Toons : How I Spent My Vacation, so that would probably speak volumes about my mindset... Â Can I ask a serious, genuine question, gents?What's the appeal? Is it the practical effects (one of my mates is an effects guru and he watches this shit for inspiration) or is it the plot, or the gore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted September 14, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 14, 2016 (edited) Didn't like the "Guinea Pig" films. I thought the "Green Inferno" went too fucking far. Images from that stayed with me for weeks. Put me off any sort of horror film for weeks. I just watch them just to have a nosey at what people are moaning about. Edited September 14, 2016 by bAzTNM#1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 They hold almost no appeal to me any longer but in my younger days I was simply a bit of an edgelord and the infamy was the main appeal, New French Extremity was the in thing around then too with films like Martyrs, Ills and Frontiere(s) being bummed and vilified all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted September 14, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 14, 2016 Fully with you Baz on Green Inferno. I thought "Ah sure, it'll be like Hostel. Bit tongue in cheek, typical Roth sort of gig" but it worse/nastier than Cannibal Holocaust. Haunted me. An awful, evil movie. Â They hold almost no appeal to me any longer but in my younger days I was simply a bit of an edgelord and the infamy was the main appeal Ah right, thought as much. Same with a lot of people I know. Including myself, as morbid curiosity can take over with these sort of movies. I learned a big lesson with the Exorcist. Went in to the anniversary re-release in 1998 with my mates, all Billy Big Bollox of me, sat through most of it with a face like Wallace/Aardman permanently etched on me throughout and left before the end, ran across to the Truman Show to try purge my soul and rinse myself of what I'd just witnessed, got home, sprinted up the stairs, jumped into me pit, left the lights on, read a Whizzer and Chips and put my Road Runner and Looney Tunes long play video on to try placate my brain. Anything to do with the divvil, I'm not having it. Won't even say the H word. I'm not even particularly religious, but I'll always say Heck instead of the other one. Like, Highway to Heck, Heckraiser, No Chance in Heck, Heckena Bonham Carter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted September 14, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 14, 2016 They hold almost no appeal to me any longer but in my younger days I was simply a bit of an edgelord and the infamy was the main appeal, New French Extremity was the in thing around then too with films like Martyrs, Ills and Frontiere(s) being bummed and vilified all over the place.  I used to think that was me for a long time, but later I realized that I was just watching the films off the video nasties list and assuming they were the worst thing out there. I've been researching the porn films of Phil Prince, with a view to writing some sort of piece about them clearing up the myths about his story — he went to jail for shooting a bloke during an armed robbery, but then Bill Landis of Sleazoid Express spread a story about him murdering a business associate and getting 25 years, which is just bollocks, seeing as how he turned up at trade shows and directed some movies in the 90s under a pseudonym. There is some hard-to-watch shit in those movies, I assume nowhere near as bad as what you could find shot on video in any continental sex shop but for narrative cinematic films in the 80s, they are some grubby stuff. Frequently hilarious, too, in their insanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted September 14, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 14, 2016 (edited) EDIT: A double post. Edited September 14, 2016 by bAzTNM#1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted September 14, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted September 14, 2016 "Men Behind the Sun" is a lesser known gory Japanese one. Some absolutely terrible stuff in there. On Youtube as well. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 As someone that loves horror, I pretty much watch from one end of the spectrum to the other. I enjoy the lighthearted goofy stuff and then I have a morbid curiosity for the disgusting stuff that pushes the boundaries. Â 'Enjoyment' would be a strange word to use for a lot of it. Take a movie like Martyrs for example - that's something that will stick with me for a long time, and left me completely drained and empty by the end of it. Yet it's not really something that exploits for the sake of it. The only movie that really left me with a similar feeling at the end was Requiem for a Dream and that was certainly a very different kind of movie. Â There are movies in the extreme arena that can challenge you as a viewer and deliver something beyond shocking for the sake of it. It's very difficult to find though, and a lot of it is very disappointing, unoriginal and boring to me. It's just a case of having seen so much of it now that very little of it bothers me or keeps my interest. I know a lot of people wonder why you'd want to watch something like that, but as with any cinema, it's all about the emotional response. Even if it's a highly negative one in some ways, the movie has done its job. Â Can't really say I got much out of A Serbian Film beyond 'why the fuck would you do that?' but I didn't really have the knowledge to understand it much beyond what was offered on the surface. Sometimes you need a little background knowledge before understanding a movie fully, or at least what they're aiming to show. Yet others offer no depth whatsoever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 I always found the wiki synopsis for A Serbian Film worse than the actual film. I spent most of the movie laughing at how ludicrous and over the top everything in it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 I think that's what a lot of movies suffer from - being too over the top to even be taken seriously or offensive. Â Sometimes the hype and moaning about it is far worse than whatever's on screen too - see the original Human Centipede. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 If I had went into it totally without information about it, I'd think "Flowers of Flesh and Blood" was a totally legit, real snuff film too. I fell for it. Â Granted I had never heard of it before hand and was watching what looked like a 15th gen copy. My head was fucked for days. Â Stupid looking back of course but no other movie has left that kind of impression on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted September 14, 2016 Moderators Share Posted September 14, 2016 Heckena Bonham Carter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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