Not disagreeing with the review of really bad horror genres but since The Thing was mentioned, I'd just like to remove that from any bad mouthing going on in this thread. The Thing is one of my favourite movies, All of them. John Carpenters especially which I can watch today and there's nothing scary at all about it, it's just a joy to watch how great special effects could be pre-CGI. When I first saw it though, it did scare me up to a point. It's a very tense movie. A bit like Alien which also both delivers on the visuals but also makes great use of tension to put the audience ill at ease.
So many horrors today are about torturing human beings. It's literally disturbing to see them coming one after the other.
Many will see it as a bit of a stretch to defend The Thing and put down things like Saw and the like but I see a clear distinction in that great movies, like The Thing and Alien, kill humans as a consequence of the action. Garbage like Saw and the hundreds of copycat movies kill humans for the sole reason of being gratuitous and pornographic in their depiction of killing humans. To further my point, you could remove all the scenes where people were killed and just imply it in Alien and The Thing and the movies would still work. Do that with these torture porn flicks and there would be nothing left to see.
*head detaches, rolls upside down, sprouts legs and walks off to the next thread that looks interesting*
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