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I watched Georges Franju's EYES WITHOUT A FACE for the first time a couple of months ago. It's a film from 1959, and I assumed the gore level would be fairly nil. Then I got to the face removal surgery scene. I was saying to myself, "Yikes, what a situation. But they'll cut away before it gets too gruesome, right? This is a black and white 1950s French film. Nope. The, uh, surgical proceedings were quite graphic, and I actually felt faint momentarily. (I generally avoid gory "nasties," so I'm somewhat vulnerable) (Not that I would call this film a nasty. It's quite brilliant.) Interestingly, I probably wouldn't have been as shocked by a similar scene in a modern day CGI-filmed version.
Also, I happened to be eating dinner while watching Fassbinder's IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS last year. One scene depicts two of the characters having a conversation while strolling through a working slaughterhouse in all its grisly detail. I kept my eyes solely on the bottom of the screen just to read the subtitles until that scene was over! 
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All those dumbass Hollywood superhero movies aimed exclusively at people with acne problems.
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All those dumbass Hollywood superhero movies aimed exclusively at people with acne problems.
Just out of curiosity, not trying to pick a fight, but why single out superhero films when that same target audience applies equally to just about every blockbuster these days?
Because they are a-plenty.
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Jul 19, 2013 - 5:49 AM
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Tall Guy
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Over the years there always been some movie somebody just can't stand watching.I do not mean because of the quality of the film, but the content.
I found Seance on a Wet Afternoon a harrowing watch due to the child abduction aspect, and I know I'm not alone in that. We also struggled with AI, the scene where the "kid" is abandoned in the woods - but found it easier after the first time, knowing how the tale unfolded.
Both these things, of course, are down to being a parent.
I can take any amount of gore nowadays, but I don't like horror film "jumps" very much, and I'm not partial to vomiting on film, especially when I'm eating myself. (For the avoidance of doubt, I don't mean I'm eating parts of myself, I mean just when I myself am eating.)
TG
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Society was rather gross when i saw it at the time.
In more recent times the foot sawing scenes in audition were fairly gruesome.
Equally the films like hostel and saw are no longer teenage slasher films but borderline snuff films.
The other thing for me is the tv series of Hannibal. Because of the obsession with serial killers since Silence of the lambs, they now have a spiral where each serial killer has to be more sick, more gruesome, more depraved than the last one. One in Hannibal recently created symmetrical shapes with victims limbs on a totem pole. Last week eddie izzard cut open a blokes chest and removed intestines and got a journalist to hold the parts.
We are way past vomit now...
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