When was the last time you watched an 18 Rated Movie??

[Scott]

What disappoints you about it?

 

They just aren't scary, as we know they are make believe. Clown dolls on the other hand, give me the creeps!

 

Pretty much as above. Horrors nowadays seem to lack imagination and rely on shock and gore. I much prefer the older suspenseful horror movies, where the fear was struck by the unknown. Alien, Psycho, the Thing etc.

[Charlotte]

Pretty much as above. Horrors nowadays seem to lack imagination and rely on shock and gore. I much prefer the older suspenseful horror movies, where the fear was struck by the unknown. Alien, Psycho, the Thing etc.

 

I agree completely. I just think that ought to mean there are more 18 certificates - for the shock and gore factor. I still can't sit through the original texas chainsaw masscre without covering my eyes.

[SupraStar 3000]

Bloody false advertising Geo.

Lucky I'm not a MOD otherwise I'd have banned your ass for that infringement.

*puft*

[marbleapple]

I just think that ought to mean there are more 18 certificates....I still can't sit through the original texas chainsaw masscre without covering my eyes.

 

It nicely highlights the failing of society generally imo. People always want more... more blood, more guts.... society seems to accept the extreme as the norm and thereafter pushes for greater extremes.

 

IMO some of the oldest horrors are the best. Same for the action films without the £££ effects.

[Lbm]

The Human Centipede , dont ask for a review please........

 

Also seen, it was strangely erotic

 

Yes, an intriguing film.

[Geo]

Bloody false advertising Geo.

Lucky I'm not a MOD otherwise I'd have banned your ass for that infringement.

*puft*

 

[AndrewOW]

I think the art of making a decent horror, is the 'less is more' adage. Suspense and not seeing the 'baddie', or ghost, or whatever, while nasty things go on is still disturbing IMO. Poltergeist worked, for the most part, because you never saw the ghostly force, etc., until nearer to the end.

 

Films like Hostel, and Saw for instance, just leave me cold, but The Grudge, although a bit pants, I enjoyed more.

[mwilkinson]

A better question would therefore be, what was the first 18 film you watched?

 

I remember getting our first VCR player with a wire remote (or not so remote) controller. My dad hired Robocop from the mobile video van that use to come round.

 

The film scared the crap out of me. Especially the bit when the guy comes out of the toxic waste with his skin hanging off. I believe I was 8 at the time.

[Scott]

I agree completely. I just think that ought to mean there are more 18 certificates - for the shock and gore factor. I still can't sit through the original texas chainsaw masscre without covering my eyes.

 

Ahh sorry, I follow you now. Not really sure on the reasons for proper horrors getting 18 certs and the gore flicks getting 15. I guess we are just all de-sensetised to blood, guts and general gore whereas we are still affected strongly by psychological terror.

 

When I see a movie advertised as a horror with a 15 cert I automatically assume it will be typical teenage gore crap. I still tend to watch them I'm just not as expectant of them. With an 18 I generally expect more.

[AndrewOW]

I think the first 18 film I watched, was The Evil Dead, and that gave me nightmares back in 1982, but considering that we're watching The Walking Dead on 'normal' tv now, just goes to show how far our desensitisation has come!

[mwilkinson]

I think the first 18 film I watched, was The Evil Dead, and that gave me nightmares back in 1982, but considering that we're watching The Walking Dead on 'normal' tv now, just goes to show how far our desensitisation has come!

 

I love the Evil Dead movies. Bruce Campbell is a B Movie legend. Army of Darkness is so cool.