Does excessive gore bother you?

[theprodigalrebel]

I borrowed all four Saw movies from a friend. Saw the first three back-to-back last night. Made it about 15 minutes through the fourth movie but I decided I'd had enough of a sensory overload for the night.

I'm normally pretty queasy and I flinched and cringed my way through the second (the needle pit!) and third (the brain surgery) movies. The autopsy at the very beginning of the fourth movie did it though - I had had way too much gore and mindless violence for the night so I switched it off. I actually had to look away from the screen i.e. not look directly at the screen; just a bit to the side while keeping the screen in my field of vision.

Are you guy able to detach yourself from the on-screen action? Do you cringe when you watch characters being subjected to brutal torture or can you munch on popcorn, knowing that it's just a movie and you are watching cheap gore and gibs for the lulz?

BTW, as much as I detest mindless violence and shockfests, I enjoyed the movies and thought they delivered the edge-of-your-seat thrills as promised. How do the other entries in the genre compete? I know they've had some craptastic reviews but for a person that liked Saw, are the Hostel and The Hill Have Eyes movies worth the trouble?

 

[Farang]

Brought a couple friends to see Death Proof.. both were sensitive to gore, but one in particular. He didn't even like to see people get punched and whatnot. That poor bastard, at one point in the film. . . the horror he must have felt.

I only have a problem with certain kinds of gore. Like in Syriana, Clooney and the pliers. Or in Michael Clayton . . . <spoiler><spoiler><spoiler but not really>the needle / home invasion</spoiler but not really>.

Damn George Clooney.

 

[CalvinHobbs]

nice movies there, and no i dont cringe, but it kinda gets boring when all you see is people dying stupidly etc...at the end of saw4 it was like "what the fuck so the killing goes on and on? and the bad guys keeps on killing" oh well i prefer movies like Lord of the Rings

 

[Mo0o]

Dont like the torture. Not so much the sight itself as much as thinking the character is under extreme pain that gets to me.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

I wouldn't call the scene in Michael Clayton gory but it was certainly chilling...the cold and clinical way the scene was shot, definitely a memorable sequence. I guess it strikes you as more disturbing because of its realism as opposed to the over-the-top fountains of ketchup most horror movies have.

I actually found the car crash in Death Proof kind of silly but I can imagine how it can turn some people off. BTW, I highly recommend you keep your friend away from Amores Perros (Mexican movie made by the guy that made 21 Grams) - particularly if he is an animal lover. Now that movie is a dog-lover's nightmare.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Dont like the torture. Not so much the sight itself as much as thinking the character is under extreme pain that gets to me.

I had to turn the volume down because of all the bone-crunching sound effects, particularly the black guy in Saw 3.

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
I wouldn't call the scene in Michael Clayton gory but it was certainly chilling...the cold and clinical way the scene was shot, definitely a memorable sequence. I guess it strikes you as more disturbing because of its realism as opposed to the over-the-top fountains of ketchup most horror movies have.

I actually found the car crash in Death Proof kind of silly but I can imagine how it can turn some people off. BTW, I highly recommend you keep your friend away from Amores Perros (Mexican movie made by the guy that made 21 Grams) - particularly if he is an animal lover. Now that movie is a dog-lover's nightmare.

Clayton and Syriana bothered me because they are two fears of mine. I've had a <spoiler but not really> big needle shoved in my foot before, but not that fucking big and it just made me wince </ spoiler but not really>. And fingernails coming off, just another weird fear is fingernail injury.

I suppose the clinical nature of it did help, as well as the realism. I think mostly it just happened to hit my fears perfectly.

but slash-em-up gore doesn't bother me at all. I see humor in it, especially zombie movies.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Dont like the torture. Not so much the sight itself as much as thinking the character is under extreme pain that gets to me.

I had to turn the volume down because of all the bone-crunching sound effects, particularly the black guy in Saw 3.

Yeah i know what you mean. Oddly enough, open heart surgery doesn't bother in real life, but i think it's because the patient is completely knocked out and doesn't feel anything.

 

[Inferno0032]

I'm not a very squeamish person, but I couldn't help but feel my stomach get turned upside down by some of those saw things, ESPECIALLY things to do with eyes, i HATE eye things!

 

[Modelworks]

It actually bores me.
Most of the time you can tell its done for the shock effect not as what it required for the story.

When its done that way, I don't care to watch it, mainly because it starts making me think, did they really need to show all that ?

When its done 'tastefully' like someone in a car crash breaking ribs or something I'm ok with it. When its done like texas chainsaw , where they dwell on it, I lose interest in the entire movie.

They could have made saw much scarier by not showing some of the stuff and just implying it, leaving the persons imagination to fill in the images.

There are lots of scary movies that don't show gore and are better for it.

 

[Isabel]

Yes, I'm a pansy, and usually avert my eyes. Somehow I was talked into seeing Saw III in the theater and ended up listening to and playing Solitaire on my iPod to escape the gore. I saw Sweeney Todd last week and had to look away a lot.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Inferno0032
I'm not a very squeamish person, but I couldn't help but feel my stomach get turned upside down by some of those saw things, ESPECIALLY things to do with eyes, i HATE eye things!

Don't watch Hostel if you don't like things done to eyes.

I had to turn away for that scene. I also cannot stand scenes with vomiting.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

The thing that makes SAW hard to watch is not the excessive gore, but the fact that people are force to multilate themselves to survive, THATS where the shock factor is... Normal gore does nothing for me, but seeing someone do it to themselves purposely is fucked up! And yes, the needle pit in the second was the worst part of all the movies for me... Needles are creepy, must be because I always cried with vaccines when I was a kid, so it kinda got stuck

 

[irishScott]

Gore for gore's sake bothers me, simply because it's sick. If the gore is there for realism or else contributes something solid to the movie (ie Saving Private Ryan) then I'm fine with it.

 

[Kirby]

I can't take it seriously, so no, it doesn't bother me.

 

[Platypus]

I think it was the old man dick shot that bothered me in Saw 4.. not so much the senseless gore

 

[ForumMaster]

well it depends. i recently saw "The Silence of The Lambs" and boy was that movie horrible. It was really hard to keep on watching it. It was worth it though. Awesome movie.

 

[hiromizu]

Rented a whole bunch of the faces of death videos when I was a kid so hardly anything bothers me. Only thing that still gets me is that youtube kickboxing video where the guy breaks his leg and falls on it and the breast rash.

 

[moshquerade]

excessive gore doesn't bother me... too much. after working in blood baths first hand i've been somewhat desensitized.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

The only movie that ever really freaked me out was Hostel. Little things like pulling out fingernails etc just gives me chills but i can watch it.

 

[lokiju]

Growing up watching Nightmare on Elm Street and Jason movies at a young age has made me immune to gore in movies.

Though Hostel did get me to cringe with the eye scene.

 

[Inferno0032]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: Inferno0032
I'm not a very squeamish person, but I couldn't help but feel my stomach get turned upside down by some of those saw things, ESPECIALLY things to do with eyes, i HATE eye things!

Don't watch Hostel if you don't like things done to eyes.

I had to turn away for that scene. I also cannot stand scenes with vomiting.

Wow, yes QFT. HATED THAT! That's just utterly gross.

 

[sandorski]

hehe, I cringe at spots, but that's the fun of Gore movies. I watch Comedies to laugh, Horror to be scared, Gore to get queasy.

One Gore movie I watched and enjoyed recently was Carver. It's kinda cheesy and low budgets, but some of the scenes were freaky. Recommended!

 

[91TTZ]

He invented the internets. You can never have enough Gore.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

I couldn't bring myself to watch An Inconvenient Truth. I was afraid all of the Gore would put me to sleep.