dmase said:
Vanguard_Ex said:
The Hills Have Eyes...by god that film was just terrible. For the first hour, nothing. Then all of a sudden:
Crucified man screaming in agony as he burns to death
Two girls crying as they're raped
Mother shot as she comes to help the girls
God damn, that was a horrible film. I'd be lying if I said it was particularly scary too.
Hardy har har. You thought that was bad just look at the sequel. needless gore in that as well. Rape, because every horror movie has to have it these days. It was a lot worse because there wasn't any character development, at least in the first one the freaks seemed to have a backstory and you fealt really bad about the girl(the daughter), in this one i just left the room because i just don't care and don't want to see that.
I'm not going to say that The Hills Have Eyes was my favorite movie in the whole world, because it's not, and I'll assume that you're talking about the remake, because most people haven't even done the research to realize that the 2006 movie was a remake of the 1977 movie. That said, what you also probably haven't done the research to realize is that The Hills Have Eyes is one of Wes Craven's "The Last House on the Left" era films, a film which Stephen Hantke uses the term "ultraviolence" to describe. The reason these films use excessive amounts of violence is specifically to comment on violence. It's easy to chalk these films up to using violence for spectacle, but the fact is that they aren't supposed to scare you, they're supposed to distrub you. The Last House on the Left specifically was a Vietnam War commentary, and though I haven't done as much research on The Hills Have Eyes it is not unrealistic to assert that it is not just a commentary on war, but a commentary on the aftermath of war; this evidenced by the fact that the "monsters" are the afteraffect of bomb testing, which is, of course, part of war.
That said, the most brutally violent film award would probably have to go to Hostel, mostly because Eli Roth works very hard to test the waters between the R and NC-17 ratings, and even though its violence is excessive, it always tries very hard to be realistic. Again, not my favorite film, but still pretty violent.
For a film I really like with considerably excessive violence, I would be forced to pick between one of Rob Zombie's three films; House of 1000 Corpses and its sequel The Devil's Rejects, or the remake of Halloween which I still contend is one of the few good remakes. Although Zombie tends to say a lot of things with his films, one recurring theme you can see in all three films is the family as a source of violence. Consider that in House and in Rejects it is the Firefly Family that plays the roll of "monster," although Zombie does play with the formula a little by actually making the Firefly Family the protagonist in The Devil's Rejects, really quite a feat considering the attrocities attributed to them, and in this way it can be seen as making some of the same commentary as Last House. Halloween is a little bit more explicit about the family as a source of violence considering that Zombie added an entire opening subplot that was not in the original Halloween, detailing Michael Myer's descent into madness as his family pushes him over the edge. With House of 1000 Corpses specifically, and Halloween and Rejects to a lesser degree, admitedly Zombie's violence, while excessive, is probably not quite as realistic as Roth's or Craven's.
