<p>As a teenager I used to go to see such high quality films (snort) as Friday the 13th and Halloween. It was the suspense/jump out at you stuff that was entertaining. </p>
<p>A couple of my late teen relatives watch movies like Hostel and Saw, which according to the reviews and commercials, contain a lot of torture. I don't understand what is entertaining about watching that sort of horror and frankly I wonder about the mental health of those who enjoy that sort of "entertainment"</p>
<p>I'm with you. I think it is sadistic and gross. Two thumbs down! So many people **** and moan about the sex in movies but I never really hear anything about all the violence.</p>
<p>That was more toilet humor (which I am not really into either but that is not the point)...I was talking more about nudity, sex scenes that stuff. In my mind nudity and sex is much less offensive than people being ripped limb from limb</p>
<p>I think that gore should be banned. And if I was dictators, I'd make it so:D
I conscientiously make the decision to NOT watch scary stuff (though I indulge in the gross brain surgeries on Discovery :D)</p>
<p>Some say that exposure makes you less wary of stuff the next time. Some things are too traumatic..and more scary movies on me would just be scarring.</p>
<p>It feeds a primeval lust for violence & brutality that is inherent in human nature. Plus, it's a whole lot cleaner than having gladiatorial games.</p>
<p>Well I never watched Saw, but in the case of the movie Man on Fire it shows the extremes a person can be driven to when pushed to the limit and when mixed with extraordinary acting a good writing can make great movies.</p>
<p>Our generation has just become so desentisized throughout our lives, that the film industry needs something with shock value. I'm sure the movie Psycho! had shock value when it came out. I personally don't watch these movies.</p>
<p>Most slasher movies are rather juvenile, so they do not appeal to me, but I take out all of my violent fantasies in movies. I am very passive in real life, but if I want to beat a woman, or curb a minority, I can do it in a movie.</p>
<p>People make those movies because people want to watch them. People enjoy seeing other people scream as a knife impails their nostrils and comes out of the other side of their head.
People enjoy seeing big breasted women run in slow motion while being chased by a deformed killer with a butcher knife.
People enjoy watching women being butchered in the shower by a pstchotic murderer.
The point is that most people like to see other people in pain and agony. They like to watch as other people get butchered.
And the people who make the movies will keep making these movies till people get sick of it - they'll milk it till it's dry.</p>
<p>I personally like watching stuff like that - but to a certain extent. Too much of anything is bad for you and I sometimes think that it's a waste of money.</p>