Alien: Romulus to be released theatrically on Aug. 16, 2024

[[cancerblack]]

Personally I fell asleep during Don't Breath. Twice. But that may have been mostly the premise and characters.

[Necronomicon II]

Give it another go.

[nanison]

Well I hope it doesn't have that much gore, it's a suspense action series not a gore fest. Besides gore stopped being fun about 25 years ago because it got too realistic compared with 80s gore which was just plain rubbery fun.

So as far as evil dead goes, the original is absolutely the movie to go too imo, this remake takes all the fun out of it.

[Eal]

I guess it depends on whether you come from the Jay Bauman or Mike Stoklassa school when it comes to realistic gore.

[[cancerblack]]

Well I hope it doesn't have that much gore, it's a suspense action series not a gore fest. Besides gore stopped being fun about 25 years ago because it got too realistic compared with 80s gore which was just plain rubbery fun.

So as far as evil dead goes, the original is absolutely the movie to go too imo, this remake takes all the fun out of it.

I think we need to delineate between gore as an aspect of body horror, and on-screen violence leading directly to gore. Seeing the result is different to seeing it happen, and there's a big difference between something like that taking inspiration from say, The Thing or a certain Swiss surrealist, and just having limbs chopped off all over the place.

[SiL]

Make chestbursting the centrepiece again.

The adult killing people is kind of dull and perfunctory after a while. Bursting's the real horror show.

[Local Trouble]

Yeah.  It was Ripley's worst fear throughout the original trilogy for good reason.

[Kradan]

I guess it depends on whether you come from the Jay Bauman or Mike Stoklassa school when it comes to realistic gore.

Could you elaborate on that ?

[Local Trouble]

I guess it depends on whether you come from the Jay Bauman or Mike Stoklassa school when it comes to realistic gore.

Could you elaborate on that ?

Don't ask questions!  Just consume product and get excited for next product!

[Necronomicon II]

Make chestbursting the centrepiece again.

The adult killing people is kind of dull and perfunctory after a while. Bursting's the real horror show.

Yep agreed, the original made me lose my appetite as a wee lad, and the cocooned woman burster in Aliens was genuinely horrifying. Horner's score really amps up the intensity there too.

I guess it depends on whether you come from the Jay Bauman or Mike Stoklassa school when it comes to realistic gore.

Could you elaborate on that ?

Don't ask questions!  Just consume product and get excited for next product!

Elaborate on that.

David Lynch: No.

[Local Trouble]

Make chestbursting the centrepiece again.

The adult killing people is kind of dull and perfunctory after a while. Bursting's the real horror show.

Yep agreed, the original made me lose my appetite as a wee lad, and the cocooned woman burster in Aliens was genuinely horrifying. Horner's score really amps up the intensity there too.

For me, the most horrible part was what we didn't see: all the kids who got cocooned and suffered a horrible death by chestburster.  Bonus points if their parents had to watch.

[Eal]

I guess it depends on whether you come from the Jay Bauman or Mike Stoklassa school when it comes to realistic gore.

Could you elaborate on that ?

Bauman, the shorter guy with the beard from RLM that always seems upbeat has a penchant for obscure indie movies and very depressing horror movies, including graphic ones. Mike Stoklassa, the taller guy from RLM who always sounds drunk likes Friday the 13th, but is more of an upbeat person, movie-taste-wise; he'd opt for more of a splatter comedy than something that Jay Bauman would pick, although they'd both probably enjoy it in the end.

[Necronomicon II]

Make chestbursting the centrepiece again.

The adult killing people is kind of dull and perfunctory after a while. Bursting's the real horror show.

Yep agreed, the original made me lose my appetite as a wee lad, and the cocooned woman burster in Aliens was genuinely horrifying. Horner's score really amps up the intensity there too.

For me, the most horrible part was what we didn't see: all the kids who got cocooned and suffered a horrible death by chestburster.  Bonus points if their parents had to watch.

Yup truly f**ked up, that's the kind of messed up, sick "gore" I want to see; disgusting hive body horror leaving your imagination to go to dark places to infer what happened.

[SiL]

See the gore or leave it to the imagination, pick one.

[Necronomicon II]

It's not either/or; you can see a gory aftermath rife with twisted body horror that leaves questions as to what exactly happened, for example, leaving the viewer to make inferences and fill in blanks.