Evil Dead Redband Trailer

[BadJuju]

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Heh, thanks, aaron. I was just really psyched to see it! Looks like it could be a fine horror movie and a fine remake at that, which is rare. Hopefully, it will mimic 'The Thing' from the 80s in its adaptation of the film it was based on.

[FrankL]

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FWIW, I didn't look closely and internalize that image. I barely glanced at it and felt like I'd been kicked in the gut.

I believe our society has been coarsened and most people don't even realize it. A long time ago, too long ago to remember the source or I'd quote it, I read about the first time TV came to a little village in Tibet, or maybe it was Nepal. The villagers crowded around the TV to watch their first TV show. It was something from Hollywood and featured violence against a woman. The villagers were absolutely horrified that the behavior depicted was normal in our society. In their village, they said, if someone heard a man beating his wife the whole village came over to his hut and made him stop. They just couldn't fathom how violent we were.

I remember seeing Robocop when it came out. At the most gory, painful scenes, the kids in the audience were laughing. That is not normal behavior. It's a learned response from repeated exposure to violence. It's a coping mechanism. That response may be the norm now but I don't think it's healthy.

YouTube is fine. It's all in what you search for. Interviews, music, how-to's... No need to go to the gory stuff.

not everyone experiences things in the same way.

I'm quite indifferent to films, however, I find the daily news on the tele quite awful to watch (and have given up on it many years ago). I exited the holocaust museum in Berlin quite quickly, because I couldn't take it. My thought was exactly that you can only withstand the stuff in that place if you were very desensitized (and otherwise desensitizes you just by going there).

[DSpencer]

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Don't worry BadJuju. Not everyone thinks you're a serial killer because you posted a horror movie trailer. First, the thread is titled as accurately as possible. Who clicks on a thread starting with "Evil Dead" and expects puppies and unicorns? Second, you state specifically in the first post that it is "extremely gory and graphically disturbing". To be more specific would likely offend people with the text description. Third, it's quite obviously a fictional movie and I fail to see any meaningful connection between this fictional movie and a silly book claiming to be the satanic bible.

Most importantly: Contrary to the notion that only a sick person could possibly enjoy simulated violence, it's mostly a matter of taste and extremes. For all those who think enjoying violence is abnormal. Please look through the IMDb top movies:

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

Glancing through the top 50 I notice that with less than 5 exceptions, nearly every movie is centered around violence, contains violence or has a violent backdrop. Even mostly peaceful movies like "It's a Wonderful Life" are based on the idea of suicide. Forrest Gump has fistfights and a war if I recall.

Yet only a psycho can enjoy 90% of the top movies ever made? Shawshank Redemption is #1 on the list. A fantastic movie in my opinion. Yet containing several downright disturbing scenes. I guess that makes me a sick human being?

And for those who don't watch movies and still believe they are above enjoying violence: Don't try reading or theater either!!

The Great Gatsby, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Les Miserables....Violent trash, every one of them! Appealing to only the lowest forms of humans.

Popular literature, theater and cinema are absolutely filled with violence. And this clearly isn't just low-class books, plays and films, but the vast majority of highly acclaimed works. And if you think it's a recent trend, try reading the Odyssey or the Bible. Excepting a few people who read only childrens books, most normal people enjoy violent stories as entertainment.

Some people just want a better plot to accompany the violence or they don't want to see as much blood and gore. It's interesting to note that the original Evil Dead series actually became popular partly because of its mix of horror and black comedy and has a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes from critics. I'm guessing this remake won't succeed in matching the original.

[ER59]

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I did not watch the trailer because I am sensitive to violence and horror movies but I find this topic fascinating. According to a quick search "Violence has been in decline for thousands of years. ... Historical records show that between the late Middle Ages and the 20th century, European countries saw a 10- to 50-fold decline in their rates of homicide." I found a chart:
Homicides.jpg

The murder rate doesn't exactly mirror the overall violent-crime rate, of course. Still, in some ways the 20s and 30s were as dangerous as now. In contrast, the late 40s to early 60s were a golden era, safer than most decades before or since.

So it looks like the absence of gore and violence in the media in the 20s and 30s did not help much.