Gary Floyd

Oh brother... Best post in the thread.

I forgot about that. That may be his lowest point.

The torture horror genre is dead. Well almost dead. Thank God. I liked "Hostel" and it's sequal, in spite of what others have said. I liked the first "Saw" movie. That out of the way, with "Hostel Part II" tanking (and director Eli Roth posting an incredibly whiney entry in his Myspace), and inspite of the movie "Captivity" coming out, people aren't largely going to see people get tortured anymore. Ok, so there's another "Saw" movie, but that's beyond the point. I think that people are tired of being bombarded with torture flick after torture flick. Hell, Roth has even seemed to have moved beyond the tired subgenre he helped give birth to, and is going on to do an adaptation of Stephen King's "Cell" as his next movie. The director of "Saw" went on to do the dreadful "Dead Silence", which at least saw him try something different. The director of the excellent slasher flick "High Tension" and the remake of "The Hills Have Eyes" is moving on to more creepy supernatural scare. And "28 Weeks" later not only showed that R rated horror can still do good box office, but can still be scary. Several R Rated horror films have proven that you can be scary without endless torture sequences. The problem: They haven't done good box office. In a way, because of movies like "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" and their ilk, R-Rated horror has gotten a bad buzz. Critics now use the tired phrase "torture porn" to describe such movies (really folks, torture porn is the kind of thing you find in Sweeden), and the movie going public has tired of torture. Unfortunately, this has spoiled things for other horror flicks, meaning that much better and more imaginative horror flicks either do poor box office ("Grindhouse", "The Abandoned", "Slither") get limited release ("Black Sheep", "Fido"), or get dumped straight to video ("Gravedancers", "Reincarnation", "Isolation") People want to be scared again. They don't want to see Elisha Cuthbert get tortured by a deranged maniac. They don't want to see a woman get raped by a mutant. They want to be frightened, not put through an ordeal. My answer to those who complain about movies that use torture: don't watch them, and they'll go away. Go see original horror movies that deserve respect and attention, like "The Descent" or "The Abandoned." Horror isn't going to die, it's just at a crossroads. That's ok, because this always happens. The same thing happened with slasher movies in the 80's and self aware horror in the 90's. The next big thing will come eventually, and it will go, only to make way for the new one.

I saw it last night. Good, but not great ("The Abandoned" is a better supernatural horror flick.) John Cusak really is the master of overacting. I don't know what's more tired at this point: Horror movis that use a lot of torture, or the term "torture porn"

The best thing KOAB ever said:

Hell yes. I was a big Dinosaucers fan as a kid. Hey Dude. "Yipee Ti Yi Yeah!"

Osibasa-"Phallus C"

5 favorite albums on my IPod at the moment 5.) Area-1978 Gli Dei Se Ne Vanno, Gli Arrabbiati Restano! 4.) Adult-Anxiety Always 3.) Brand X-Unorthodox Behaviour 2.) Meat beat Manifesto-Actual Sounds and Voices 1.) Wu Tang Clan-Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

The Current IMDB Bottom 100 I agree these are all bad movies, but some don't belong in here, since they are far from the worse.

Elwood, recent winner of "world's ugliest dog"

"No more ankles and no more toes/little orphans running through the bloody snow"

I'm simply repeating myself here, but Kicking Against the Pricks is an awesome covers album. Also, we've had a thread about this before. Don't mean to be rude, just thought you should know. By the way, is Dylanesque any good?

-Matt Young's telling us about his personal life again. Matt, here's some advice: It would be best not to tell people too much about your personal life. Seriously, if there is anything you need to work on, it's that. Not because of people not caring, but because it reflects really badly on you. This is one of the reasons I tend to be hush hush on my personal life. Actually, it's mostly because my personal life is fucking boring, but I digress. -I'm going to see 1408 tonight. Normally, I don't check out PG-13 rated horror flicks, but it's been getting good reviews, and has a great cast. -I checked out TNA last night out of boredom, and wasn't too impressed. Sure, Samoa Joe is great, and I love some of the guys there, but it was still kind of boring. It felt a bit like a mix of WCW Nitro and WCW Worldwide. Also, I'm suprised nobody on the boards is now called "Black Machismo." Oh, and poor Jarrett. -My new favorite Youtube video. It sounds more like a stuck pig than a dog.

I honestly don't see why anybody would want to post anything about their personal life. Then again, my personal life is pretty boring, so I never see a need to tell that much. To paraphrase dubQ, you really shouldn't tell people about your personal life Matt. It's the one thing about you that annoys me (ok, not the only thing), and it reflects really badly on you. There, I'm done being a shitty armchair psychiatrist who repeats others.

Burzum-"War" 30 Seconds To Mars-"The Kill"

Yes, um, who are you exactly? For fucks sake...

Eh, it's mostly playful, since I'm usually kidding.

Um... Deon attempted to fuck up someone's life. I have had no contact with the girl. I simply found out about her getting Thus making you a far superior human being than him. Really, you should be proud.

Not many things leave me speachless...

His role in the book "Biting Scott Tennerman's Weiner Off" as especially moving.

At least Matt's no where near as pathetic as Deon.

A friend dragged me along to see Throbbing Gristle do a recording session of Nico covers recently, it was terrible. More electronic than instrumental and the vocalist was a transexual with the last name of Porridge. Genesis P. Orridge. He/She is a really creepy motherfucker. Their old albums are great, though an acquired taste. They really shouldn't have reunited, since they don't have any of the spark they once had. Also, when they were around back in the day, they were considered something of a threatening band. One paper even called them "Wreckers of Civilization." As far as old industrial goes, they were good, but not as great as Cabaret Voltaire.

Christ, I'm embarrassed. I got in a debate with some anarchist punk chick a few months ago about veganism. Not much else to mention, except that she was pretty hot.

-Hillary Clinton chose a Celine Dion song as her campaign song. I would have had her go with Cum Drenched Tits by William H. Nutsack. At least Kerry had the decency to go with Zeppelin. -Band of the moment: The Angelic Process, who are like Doom Metal meets The Swans meets My Bloody Valentine meets Sigur Ros. I love this stuff, and their new album is in my future purchases list. -I mentioned Dr. Dre's The Chronic, and I can't believe that I forgot how awesome that album really is. The production is so top notch, it's practically a joke (I'm a sucker for really good hip hop production), and damnit, "Lyrical Gangbang" is underrated. I should probably do a "best hip hop albums of all time" list, but that would be too hard. -This is what Scientoligists actually believe. I really, really hope that someday, this whole cult disappears. Then again, there are people who believe that they are dragons, they just aren't dangerous. Yeah, sorry for the boring entry.