Horror Needs More Rape/Revenge Flicks

[fight4fire]

And by the way. my 17yr old son just walked up behind me and read the title to this article. "horror needs more rape" and asked me what in the world i was reading. I told him what it was about and he shook his head and as he walked off said "thats not horror, thats just sick". get help dude!

[littlewayn13]

Agnesitsmebilly, I'll just get to the point-Fuck you for standing up for rape and the need for it to be in horror. And as for the grammar trolling, Take time to spell words right and then I won't have to poke fun, ya sumbitch.

[AgnesItsMeBilly]

agnes im sure it doesnt hurt anyones feelings that your done commenting on this. your arguments that rape is the same as murder is retarded. a brutal rape scene mixes together elements that touch different nerves in the brains of most human beings. at least the sane ones. violence mixed with sex, appeals mostly to the psychotic. and to answer the questions above, no i dont like hills have eyes. i dont watch movies with violent rape. a lot of people dont enjoy it. very few people do as a matter of fact. that is why very few of these movies ever see theaters. the normal public loves horror contrary to your earlier post that they don't. if it makes you feel like a bad ass that your not bothered by rape and violence thats fine. theres a lot of people in third world toilet countries that dont mind torturing, raping and killing people for real. to each their own. i just wouldnt advise people leaving their kids alone with you or a guy who loves to watch violent rape. and as for standing up for what you consider wrongs done to captain howdy, you actually remind me a lot of brian from family guy. you just want to be heard and be different. thats ok too.

Nice straw-man.. I've stated multiple times i'm not the type to go out looking for movies featuring rape.. It doesn't appeal to me.

That said, I don't live with blinders on and i'm not confined to arbitrary rules that make no sense.. What you're implying is that terrorizing and murdering someone is the lesser evil. I don't buy that..

And your right, to each their own.. Some people make uninformed generalizations of people and others don't. My father thinks everyone from Texas is an asshole.. Just like you think anyone who's ever enjoyed a movie with this subject matter is a sicko.. Same shit different toilet..

I've been watching horror since i was a babe. Perhaps i've grown a bit desensitized over the years... At this point i'm just looking for horror films that are effective in doing what they set out to do. As long as it isn't gratuitous and it WORKS then i could care less if a film features sexual violence and rape..

My pet-peeve is animal cruelty. i can't stand it. I'm not gonna turn around and say that anyone who's ever enjoyed a movie where and animal dies is a sick person.. Then i'd be no different than the rest of the hoopleheads.

[AgnesItsMeBilly]

Agnesitsmebilly, I'll just get to the point-Fuck you for standing up for rape and the need for it to be in horror. And as for the grammar trolling, Take time to spell words right and then I won't have to poke fun, ya sumbitch.

I can tell you've thought hard about this.. I guess your train is running a lil-bit faster than mine.

[fight4fire]

Straw man? was that an insult? ha ha your an idiot! i thought you said all you had to say in here. but in reality it eating you up that everyone thinks your a fuktard and youll never shut up even when your obviously defeated. so now you prefer watching people being brutally raped but hate an animal getting killed. again, your messed up. dont waste your time arguing with me and you and captain howdy aka herman munster can go get some real counseling from someone trained to do so. nothing you say will change the fact that your messed up in the head and no amount of arguing is going to change anyones mind in here. I knew youd be back though. if nothing else you put a smile on my face.

[dew]

Whoa.

How about everyone chills out with the insults? This board is for the discussion of horror films and entertainment, not personal attacks. I voiced an opinion on post, as did others, and AgnesItsMeBilly is allowed to voice his as well. I haven't seen him "Standing up" for rape in films or otherwise. What he DID stand up for was the right of the OP not to be attacked for his opinion.

I realize I may have opened the door on this by discussing some of the actual real-life creepers I've personally known, and I apologize for that - and feel I should mention that my uneasiness on the content of their character is based in far more than just the films that they watch.

The OP's argument was grounded in an actual existing genre of film that he finds relevant to horror as a whole. Some people don't agree with that. And that's fine. That's what makes HB what it is - a place for fans to talk about horror, where the genre has been and where it's heading. What it is NOT, however, is a junior high playground where we get to call names and throw stones.

Much as I disagree with the OP and some of AgnesItsMeBilly's assertions, there's no place for this kind of childish bullshit here. So how about EVERYBODY grows up a little and returns to the genre discussion itself?

[AgnesItsMeBilly]

@dew,

I don't think i've acted childish.. I literally just went back and re-read all of my posts.. I may have taken it a bit far by saying they were bad people for poking fun of OP's avatar (a hyperbolic statement to say the least); but i've been on this site for a while, i love it, and this is the first time i've seen personal attacks like this.. As much as i don't want to see more rape/revenge flicks, I've seen plenty of threads on here regarding movies that are much more fucked up... The insults, hypocrisy, and arbitrary schema bullshit is surprising to see on here.

And acting like sadism, sexual undertones, and sometimes rape is uncalled for in horror seems naive. I respect that you don't enjoy it, i really do. But at the end of the day, many would argue that kind of subject matter makes for some of the most scary and disturbing horror. It doesn't make them fucked up people.