Garbage

Another blood-soaked "movie" for people who want to see nothing but gore & guts. Whatever happened to suspense, drama and the thrill & terror of not seeing things but knowing in your mind what happened?

To show some demented country boy carve up (another) pretty young girl on a table is just sheer torture/blood porn. I realize that this seems to be the style of pictures some people want but to me it totally lacks imagination, writing skills and a plot.

Come on, how many more movies are we going to have where some "demented, back-woods, hillbilly" family (who are cannibals)kills, tortures, etc young hot chicks? I love horror, thrillers and yes, sometimes a bit of blood is necessary but do you realize Hitchcock hardly ever showed gore to scare people?

The original Night of the Living Dead was scary and compelling, and ahead of its time. But I'm tired of people in the South (or anywhere near) being labeled as backward, with warped religious views (to the extreme) and loves to kill sexed up kids. I've lived in the South all my life and have never seen anyone remotely like this or heard of such. The Wrong Turn, The Hills Have Eyes, PumpkinHead, etc. genre get old in a hurry because they all play on the same fears and derive from the same worn-out plot.

Wrong Turn was pretty good but, again, it could have been just as scary without showing girls/guys being chopped up. Again, let the audience's imagination go where it will. Thanks what makes the A+ horror films great: they show just up to the point where a person is attacked/killed and the camera pulls back. The writer, director let each person's mind play out what happened. That's what leaves us scared at night when the lights go out.

Finally, I'll use the original Halloween (John Carpenter) as an example. It has some "gore" of sorts but it's limited, without showing pools of blood everywhere. Carpenter was able to heighten the drama by pulling back instead of saying "I think I'll show someone having their feet and hands cut off". Scary without being sickening. Please try decent writing for a change, kill (no pun intended) the demented Southern, religious fanatical family (with the retarded son) genre and showing hot chicks is fine (who could be against that? kidding) but play on our darkest fears by letting that wonderful thing called an imagination do its work! How about making movies that make you afraid to be alone at night? The kind that make you (even at my age) want to pull the cover over your head?

Now because I know I'll be ripped for slamming this movie (and others like it) please try debating what I've said instead of just calling me names...People like different types of movies, which I'm fine with. But my biggest issue with gore feats like this one is exactly that: it doesn't explain much and the thing they want to scare you with is the gore. Give us originality Hollywood!