http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.i-mockery.com/halloween/greatest/default.php Comments & Reviews of http://www.i-mockery.com/halloween/greatest/default.php on StumbleUpon en-us Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:27:51 -0700 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:21:38 -0700 http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.i-mockery.com/halloween/greatest/default.php http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/logo_su_36x36.png Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:44:54 -0700 http://azawalli.stumbleupon.com/review/5987005/ azawalli - I'm a fan of horror movies, but I find myself in the odd position of panning a site devoted to them. A line from one of the reviews bothers me--something like, "it was one of the best kills in the movie." It seems to imply that inventive ways of depicting death is all there is to horror and that cheapens the value of human life. I was an orderly in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in my 20's, and I saw death and gore up close very regularly. I remember commiserating with a friend who was in medical school at the time that we both had seen enough real-life gore that we wouldn't ever be horrified by its depiction in the movies. For me, a good horror film has always been more about psychology than bloodshed. I remember seeing the science fiction movie "Solaris"--the one directed by the Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky--and being really creeped out when the hero finds a large black women (or person of African descent, if you want to be politically correct) silently wandering through the corridors of a space station when the astronauts on the station were all white-skinned Russian types. The dissonance in that shot--knowing that this was the hallucination of someone on the station, and suspecting that the number of dark-skinned people in Russia would be virtually zero--somehow made that scene very creepy. "The Shining" is a good horror film (oddly, Stephen King apparently hated the movie) not because of the gore or decaying corpses that you occasionally see, but because of its portrayal of the character "Jack" as he slowly descends into madness. Even if something portrays gore in a way that's witty, I'm willing to accept it--"Shaun of the Dead," took the traditional zombie film and turned it into a love story, a story about friendship, and the story of a "slacker" maturing. But movies that rely on body counts--well, they're just boring and offensive.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.i-mockery.com/halloween/greatest/default.php Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:53:51 -0700 http://soulmachines.stumbleupon.com/review/5984848/ soulmachines - great play-by-plays of the greatest horror movies of all time, with screencaps! (the above was in zombie)]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.i-mockery.com/halloween/greatest/default.php