Thread: What is your depravity threshhold?

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There's a difference between too much gore and too much depravity in a movie. Which ones cross the line for being morally corrupt in your opinions?

My depravity threshold is pretty high, though I must admit to disliking rape scenes.

What I find is that if it's depravity for depravity's sake then it's ultra boring. A prime example would be The Devils Rejects and the later Hostel movies...just not what I'm looking for in a horror movie. To me they aren't even horror but should be considered "shock" movies.

Sex in city.. that made me ill...

Actually, any movie that shows real footage of animals being hurt or killed cross the line for me. Torture horror are boring movies for me. Horror for me is not the amount of blood and guts, it's terror, fear and desperation againts something you can't control or no matter what you do, you are screwed in the end.

I have a very low threshold for both. I don't have a photographic memory in the traditional sense but I do see images and scenes in my mind for a long time. They could even be imagined from a book I've read and I will 'see' it for days. <shudder> This was a huge problem for me when I was younger...as you can imagine. So, even today, I work hard to avoid seeing both.

As I've gotten older I'm more tolerant. Blood used artistically or way over the top (like what was used in the movie 300) is fine for me. But, if it's a realistic scene where someone got their throat slit and their acting was real good..that will disturb me.

In regards to depravity that threshold is even lower. For example, I read a review about Human Centipede. Now, I haven't even seen the movie and it has disturbed me greatly. Just imagining going through that nightmare has been bugging me for three weeks now.

I'm sure you are asking yourself why in the world would I be so much into Halloween? Because I am more afraid than probably most and so it makes it even more fun to have survived the scare. Luckily, I haven't run into situations described above in a haunt...yet. But the fear of it makes me even more thrilled when I go through haunts. I hope I'm making sense here. It's like I'm an adrenaline junkie with scares. I'm already psyched-out without them even trying. Waiting in line is very tough for me

You know, I just re-read your post and realized you were asking morally what's over the line. Ooops!

I guess to answer that question it would be what was mentioned above. Used just for shock, hurting animals and to add another... messing with kids.

When i heard about the movie human centipied, I just imagined the writer thinking while watching 2 girls and a cup "How can we gross out people..****, this is sick stuff, this vid... oh! Oh! Yes! I know what to write now!".
People try so hard today in North America to be grossed, thinking it's horror. That is why I always preffer international movies most of the time.

I can't stand anything involving children, animal abuse. I hate the torture porn stuff. I prefer paranormal and monster movies. I briefly saw Uwe Bolls movie Seed, the intro is heartbreaking it uses footage of real animal abuse, skinned animals dumped in a pile dying, I turned it off a few seconds and googled it only to find out it was 100% real and PETA the idiots gave him it!.

This movie is showing on a tv channel here and I think it should be banned. I haven't seen the full movie but my Brother has and he couldn't understand how it got released here. You have to be very sick if you like watching real animal abuse, a scene featuring a baby being starved to death and then rotting. A long drawn out scene of a woman slowly having her head bashed in with a hammer until there's nothing left but her bloody neck stump for me stuff like that is too much.

Holy hell...I can't even remotely watch animals being abused/killed. There's no way.

Originally Posted by osenator

Sex in city.. that made me ill...

rtflmao

But to each his own... you don't have to watch it. For me the only thing I find disturbing are some that have murder scenes DURING a rape. Granted that is SUPPOSED to be disturbing to any normal person (do I qualify as normal?) LOL