Is anybody else sick of the slasher movie commericals?

[NightWatcher]

Every time I turn on the tv I get a dozen of the ads for these slasher films that all look exactly the same. Right now I was trying to eat some Kellogs Corn Pops, and every commercial break from South Park I get three or four of these ads with gruesome monsters and bloody medical instruments.

All of these movies are the same, be they: Turistas, The Hills Have Eyes, Saw 3, or whatever. It's the same damn movie, and it's always for an unrated, more gory than in theaters, extra oozy version.

I am sick of this garbage. I know I shouldnt watch tv if I dont want to see shit, but come on.

Do these ads piss off anybody else?

[reyd reid reed]

1. I'm sick of the movies themselves. The commercials...the trailers...the DVDs....

all of it. My kids don't know what scary movies really Are. They think it's all blood and gore and disgusting shit. They have no idea...

It's sad.

So...on my day off (probably Sunday), I'm going to the video store and buying stuff that'll have 'em jumping every time a bird lands on a windowsill or they turn on the shower.

:P

[NightWatcher]

3. exactly, Psycho scared the shit out of me

To this day I have a clear shower curtain and shampoo with one eye open. There are so many other good "horror" movies out there.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Suspense is the dead genre... Hitchcock, etc. Horror is what it is.

I keep hoping for something interesting to come around; Silence of the Lambs was interesting because it depicts a personal struggle on the part of Agent Starling as she makes Faustian deals with Lecter to ascend in the agency, risking to increasingly touch the profane to acquire everything from displaced parental attention to status regarding stopping the profane. Take Lecter out of the cage and watch him march around hurting people and it's just mechanical (at least to me). Torture, gore, boring. I want interesting ideas and tension based upon more than fear of death (and it usually just leaps to killing, it seems...overdone, thus uninteresting). Saw had good tension, good struggle, good revelation, a closed-room mystery. Overacted at the end, but fun. Saw 2 was just an excuse to exhibit torture. Pretty soon it just ends up with Jason etc. walking around killing everyone. No need for story. More puzzle please, less blood.

Rented "The 39 Steps" recently and loved it.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. Oh, get ready for more.

Rob Zombie just wrapped filming on his interpretation of Halloween. At least the premise looks promising. Oh, and then the Hills Have Eyes starts next week. Good luck.
Duckie

[CBHagman]

5. It was a shock to see what's happened with TV shows, too.

I'd pretty much given up watching NBC entirely but in 2006 tuned in to watch the Golden Globes. What I didn't realize was that ads for the crime scene shows would show the crime scenes, including some images I never expected to see in commercials.

There's also an ad running that features an expectoration contest. Just what I needed to see...

And The Washington Post ran a graphic still from Hostel in its Style section, which of course I read during breakfast. Just what I needed to see...

Have people's brains shut off entirely or what? How bad is this going to get?

[Lord Helmet]

6. they're usually the best parts

spliced together