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Subject: I love stylized violence. I do. There, I said it.

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Date Posted: 20:05:51 04/19/04 Mon
In reply to: Siren 's message, "Re: Movies" on 15:51:58 04/19/04 Mon

I guess it helps me confront a few things without actually having to get too close. Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, and more than a few others give us pretty people doing ugly things - and sometimes the violence is breathtakingly graphic. For some reason, I'm okay with it as long as it's presented just right. Get too real with me, and I'm the nightmare queen hiding uder the covers, afraid to answer the phone. Seriously. I could take Wes Craven's Nightmare on Elm Street just fine. Wes Craven's Last House on the Left? HOLY SHIT! My hands start to sweat just typing the title. To this day, I have never been able to watch all of The Hills Have Eyes. There's nothing in those movies for me to latch onto besides terror. The villains aren't cool. They're just mean scary people. And people scare me a lot more than vampires. Or cool criminals. Or even the Devil (who scares me, don't get me wrong).

Worse, for me, is the evil guy you never see. Jeepers Creepers scared the crap out of me until I saw what was after them. Bah. Done with that one. But some of those slasher movies (When a Stranger Calls, He Knows You're Alone) where there's no real implication that the murderer is anything more or less than human and there's no real sense of who he is or why he's doing it and we may not even get to see him just mess with my head.

For me, the idea that there are people out there who will do things like that for no reason - and we can't tell who they are until they strike us - leaves me disturbed for days. Maybe that's why I like the true crime stuff on A&E and Court TV. They try to make sense of it.

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