User blog comment:Creeper50/Why Blood is More Hated Than it Should Be/@comment-28266772-20160814112817

I simply don't understand the position with regards to gore. Violence is an aesthetic choice up to the writer and most people talk a surprising amount crap when discussing its role in horror. People like to bitch out Saw but that had barely any gore in the original. They love to do the same with the original Texas chainsaw massacre and that barely had any gore either. And what about the thing, evil dead, the fly etc.? So many great horror films were fucking drenched in blood gore and giblets. I see a lot of people saying "oh horror is great so long as it doesn't over rely on gore and builds up characters" and I hate that attitude. It's selling out the genre to make it look more like drama and romance. Horror just gets a bad rap and there's simply no need to take a blanket stance on an aesthetic choice like the use of violence. A bad horror movie is bad regardless of whether it has loads of gore and personally I'd rather a shit horror film has as much gore as possible because at least it's interesting. I've watched too many films try to be pretentious and fail miserably with just college aged actors fumbling around a poorly written script while trying to mimic David Lynch. Jesus Christ at least piranha 3D had a guys dick getting bitten off so it's worth some kind of watch.

I hear way too many people talk about horror like they're ashamed. "Oh I love horror but most of it is shit and too gory, I only like horror that everyone else has decided is good" and I hate that stance. Also 99% of everything is shit. New Girl, Big Bang Theory, everything with Melissa McCarthy, and all of Michael bays movies are like fucking abortions in slow motion but no one ever says "99% of comedies and action films are shit." Jesus fucking Christ we live in an age where Dane fucking Cook has a god damned career but apparently it's horror that needs to be ashamed of itself for relying on over the top visuals and obscenities to thrill and titillate. Screw that - bring on the blood and the gore and it all. I love all horror, and in my opinion the only thing that matters is whether the work is good regardless of whether it's like braindead or session 9.