Friday, July 29, 2011

Unrated Ultra Violent Disturbing & Gory



If I see any of these words used in the description of movies I take it as a personal challenge. I grew up watching violent action movies, Kung Fu, and especially Horror. The horror love is basically genetic. My Grandmother used to pay a nickel to see double features of Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy and the Wolfman. The 1930's-40's versions with Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney. My mother grew up watching the Hammer versions with movies starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and even got to see the original Night of the Living Dead when it came to the Drive-In. One of my earliest memories is watching John Carpenter's The Thing in my footie pajamas just barely in kindergarten.

The funny thing is that even as a little kid I wasn't too freaked out by the gore. As a matter of fact I loved it. By the time I eleven I used to get Fangoria and Gorezone magazines to read about the horror movies and I put up poster in my room with all the best gore pics, and horror icons. Melting faces, dripping blood, the gorier the better. As the years pass I find myself looking for gorier and more extreme cinema. Since American cinema has largely gone with CGI, a method that in my opinion doesn't capture the organic feeling necessary to truly convey the beauty that is gore, I've turned to watching a lot of foreign films. I still love practical effects!

There are two types of extreme when it comes to my viewing taste. There is extreme gore, like Tokyo Gore Police or Riki-Oh. Then there is just plain DIS-TUR-BING, like Antichrist or what I hear about Irreversible and Serbian Film; which is light on gore but usually the content matter is enough to make one squirm. See there? The fact that something can make me squirm is proof that I am not totally desensitized. I wrote about the 25 weirdest movies I've watched before.

The most important thing is that I know that movies are NOT reality, which is why I can watch the melting man from Robocop get hit by a car over and over and laugh my head off, but have to cover my eyes when exposed to skateboarding ownage videos (Youtube videos of people getting massively injured while attempting skateboarding tricks). Ghost, possession, and anything to do with demons in movies kind of freaks me out too, but I'll still watch!

I decided to add a great scene from Riki-Oh. Enjoy!

4 comments:

  1. i found this blog while googling some ultraviolent and bloody films...I have seen the worse of the worse and I dont feel like such a weirdo because I know it is all fake...there are those who get off watching real beheadings and executions but I draw the line there...I have found cg blood to be cool in some movies but lately in horror movies it just sticks out badly and I would prefer to see buckets of corn syrup...I am at the point where I have seen it all except for SERBIAN movie which I am downloading right now for the hell of it...I responded basically to say Im glad there are others like me and I am not a psycho for liking that kind of stuff

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  2. Thank you for commenting! Sorry it posted so late, it should have posted automatically. I look at these films as an artistic expression much like other visual arts. I have also recently watched SERBIAN Film and I was just about speechless. It wasn't very gory, but the subject matter is intense to say the least.

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  3. Serbian movie was nothing special....it did push the limits of what could be shown in movies but nothing disgusted me...the newborn thing was a little much but I laughed it off...it was filmed very nicely for a foreign film...but as of now the best most violent bloody goriest thing I have seen and loved is the SPARTACUS series which just got more brutal by each episode..I heard it was a very violent show but I didnt think a tv series budget would make it appeal to me...damn was I wrong!!! Most parts are cg blood but it is so cool and stylish that it doesnt matter,EVERY SINGLE EPISODE has tons of violence and gore! Thanks for responding to my previous message. LATER

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  4. Thank you for putting me up on SPARTACUS. This is the second time I've heard good things, so I'm definitely going to check it out.

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