Can anyone give me a clue as to why we are seeing so
many torture films at the moment? Is this just a
generic backslash (hoho) reclaiming ground from the
bloodless scary little girl horror of the Ring etc.
One thing I noticed watching a glut of the japanese
korean horror films was the insistence on history,
some hidden secret from the past. The torture movies
again seem to be moving away from history towards a
terrorfying now. I'm not interested in these questions
in terms of censorship or anything like that, but
rather what it means when there is an audience for
this. Is it oneupmanship?
Another question that I've been wondering about as
well is the repeated claim these films make to being
based on a true story. Is this just a homage to
similar films making similar claims? I can't see for a
second how wolf creek could in anyway be justified as
a retelling of what happened, esp. considering the
feelings of the relative of the victims? or is this in
itself displaying a cool disregard for any concept of
human feeling or sympathy?
A last question. Has anyone attempted a defence in
regard to the charges of misogyny levelled at these
films? If we're latter day romans enjoying excess for
its own sake, the romans were still pretty picky about
who they threw to the lions, do we have the same
selectivity about who we enjoy seeing been thrown to
the wolves?
I'm thinking by the way of the stream of films which I
think began with Audition and through Icchi the Killer
have recently emerged into english language cinema in
Wolf Creek and Hostel.
oh and happy new year to the list
john bleasdale
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