Horror Porn

I love to talk about things from IAH class, they just provide so much content. I think I'm going to post a paper I wrote for this class as well, just because it is also a debatable topic, and it will give this place a little more depth.

So. Horror Porn. Interesting topic, huh?

Horror Porn (n.): any movie with a mass murderer who kills by means of chainsaw, knife, ax, etc. Usually will contain at least 2 naked teenage girls, a no-man's land town, and a mentally unstable-because-of-childhood-trauma middle-aged man who loves cutting up people for the hell of it.

Examples: Halloween 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hostel, The Hills Have Eyes 1, 2, House of Wax, Scream 1, 2, 3, Disturbia, The Hitcher...should I continue? I think not, you get the picture.

Why do we submit ourselves to watching such graphic, disgusting bits of human brutality? For much of the same reasons guys love porn. The unrealistic satisfaction of something taboo.

Is it honestly THAT entertaining to watch terrible things happen to innocent people? It just completely shows America's aspects of life today. Can't just rent a good ole' chick flick or a film with a good story behind it. We need the thrill of the grotesque. What's sad is that these films sure are money makers. People flock to theaters opening night in order to scare themselves. But is it really that scary? You know the story, you know the plot. They are all the same. I think the real scary movies are those films of mind-thrillers. The kind that make you think. Not the genre of skinning humans for the hell of it. Come on people. Grow out of the stage of sadistic needs...don't watch big dudes with low self esteem mutilate a hot girl and her hot boyfriend.

The real horror is what kind of Americans are putting money into these films. I went and saw Halloween...(I did, I admit it. But I sort of was hoping for a plot, but I guess with Rob Zombie you shouldn't ask for much of that) Anyways. About 20 minutes before the movie ended, a mom walked out with her 10 or 11 year old son. Seriously lady! You took your 6th grader to a movie that repeatedly said "whore" "cunt" "dick-sucking"....Sick lady, sick.

We all wonder what the world has come to. But look at cases like this. No discretion whatsoever. Let kids be kids. Let them worry about the horrors of the real-world...or in these cases the terrible sides of the real world...when they come to it. Enjoy happiness and innocence while it lasts, because believe me, it doesn't last forever.

Pay money to see movies that don't cut up people and freeze them. Don't be an addict to this disgusting genre of horror porn.