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Aug 4 08 6:07 PM
bromstaker wrote: Mongo - While I'm a little apprehensive about the level of gore, if it's not over done or gratuitous, and only used judiciously for the sake of realism, then I'm ok with it. They've got to bring a bit of modern horror sensibility to attract the teens. Without at least some gore teens will dismiss the film as lame. This is likely not intended for kids. But the filmakers have to walk a fine line between the modern horror sensibility (graphic violence, gore) and the old school horror ambience.
I think it is rather an unfortunate state of affairs that modern horror movies have to be tailor made to attract a segment of the teen population that revel in gory special effects and consider the classics lame. For if this movie is to succeed and attain classic status, the majority of people will have to leave the theater with the vision and impression of the main character in their mind. If all they are going to remember and talk about will be the gore and violence then the movie may succeed on a level that puts it on a par with the latest Hollywood gore fest, and quickly forgotten. I firmly believe that the best horror films were the ones with implied violence, not the ones that hit you in the face with it. It's a shame that some of the youth of today don't, can't, or refuse to realize that this is what made the original Wolf man a Classic.
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