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Re: Horror Films and The Bleak Ending
« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2009, 09:34:20 AM »
You probably might want to avoid a french horror film called Inside (À l'intérieur). I just watched this, & even though I enjoyed about 3/4 of it, this film seem to really abuse a lead character in a manner that had me walking away feeling bad about it's ending.

Yeah, the French have gotten a little carried away with this extreme horror trend.
Combine this with the fact that all of their women are unshaven, & it's becomes pretty easy to see that they're all just a buncha sick f#cks.
Even the ones in Quebec.


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Re: Horror Films and The Bleak Ending
« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2009, 09:46:39 AM »
You probably might want to avoid a french horror film called Inside (À l'intérieur). I just watched this, & even though I enjoyed about 3/4 of it, this film seem to really abuse a lead character in a manner that had me walking away feeling bad about it's ending.

Yeah, the French have gotten a little carried away with this extreme horror trend.
Combine this with the fact that all of their women are unshaven, & it's becomes pretty easy to see that they're all just a buncha sick f#cks.
Even the ones in Quebec.



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Re: Horror Films and The Bleak Ending
« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2009, 10:25:58 AM »
I remember back when I was 12 or 13 becoming very passionate about Stephen King's work because he wasn't afraid of having a bleak ending. It seemed exciting and dangerous in the same way that Metallica is.
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Re: Horror Films and The Bleak Ending
« Reply #13 on: February 16, 2009, 10:28:05 AM »
I didn't pay good money to feel bad.
You probably might want to avoid a french horror film called Inside (À l'intérieur). I just watched this, & even though I enjoyed about 3/4 of it, this film seem to really abuse a lead character in a manner that had me walking away feeling bad about it's ending.

I've seen Inside and Frontier(s).  They come from that little pocket of incredibly bloody French horror films like High Tension.  With all of them, I found the desire to show as much blood as possible made their films more over the top melodrama to the point of fantasy, and I was never engaged on a realistic level.

I also didn't feel for the characters in Them (Ils) who go through an ordeal similar to the one in The Strangers, only without the dwelled-upon sadism.  With that one I felt the director and the sound department manipulating the action more than the characters.

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Re: Horror Films and The Bleak Ending
« Reply #14 on: February 16, 2009, 03:12:49 PM »
The two best Horror movies to come out last decade 28 Days Later and Descent both had to alter their bleak endings for the American market.  [REC] and its inferior remake stuck with the original bleak ending.  As early as the 70's Romero struggled with this, Night of the Living Dead had a shockingly bleak ending, but Dawn's ending was changed in the last moment from everyone committing suicide, to a more ambiguous escape into sunset. 

I think a bleak ending is OK as long as it is earned, you earn it with good characterization and acting, so when the heroes are defeated, you see it as tragedy as opposed to more gore. 

 
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Re: Horror Films and The Bleak Ending
« Reply #15 on: February 16, 2009, 03:15:02 PM »
The two best Horror movies to come out last decade 28 Days Later and Descent both had to alter their bleak endings for the American market.  [REC] and its inferior remake stuck with the original bleak ending.  As early as the 70's Romero struggled with this, Night of the Living Dead had a shockingly bleak ending, but Dawn's ending was changed in the last moment from everyone committing suicide, to a more ambiguous escape into sunset. 

I think a bleak ending is OK as long as it is earned, you earn it with good characterization and acting, so when the heroes are defeated, you see it as tragedy as opposed to more gore. 

Good point. The ending of the original Night of the Living Dead is more powerful because it is so bleak.
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Re: Horror Films and The Bleak Ending
« Reply #16 on: February 16, 2009, 03:19:54 PM »
The two best Horror movies to come out last decade 28 Days Later and Descent both had to alter their bleak endings for the American market.  [REC] and its inferior remake stuck with the original bleak ending.  As early as the 70's Romero struggled with this, Night of the Living Dead had a shockingly bleak ending, but Dawn's ending was changed in the last moment from everyone committing suicide, to a more ambiguous escape into sunset. 

I think a bleak ending is OK as long as it is earned, you earn it with good characterization and acting, so when the heroes are defeated, you see it as tragedy as opposed to more gore. 

Good point. The ending of the original Night of the Living Dead is more powerful because it is so bleak.

I would say that this ending is one of the best in cinema history. At least of what I have seen.
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Re: Horror Films and The Bleak Ending
« Reply #17 on: February 16, 2009, 04:24:27 PM »
The two best Horror movies to come out last decade 28 Days Later and Descent both had to alter their bleak endings for the American market. 

In the case of 28 Days Later I don't think it was because of the American market but because a bleak ending would have been a complete betrayal of the narrative.

 

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