When did scary movies start going too far?

[ecstatic]

It's a typical Saturday night. You and your friends have the night planned out to perfection. You're going to rent a movie, eat junk food until your stomachs burst, and stay up as late as humanly possible. On the way to the movie store, it's unanimously decided that you'll rent a scary movie, and you end up renting the scariest one you could find in the store. When you pop it into the DVD player and prepare to be scared, you're greeted with something you did not rent: A bloody, graphic massacre of limbs being sawed off, eyes being pronged out, intestines being harvested, and a weak plot-line that doesn't really make any sense.

Basically, you rented a huge, disgusting disappointment. Most times, you don't even end up finishing the movie; too repulsed to continue watching after the guy had each of his fingers bashed to pieces with a hammer. Movies and TV shows these days have become downright morbid. Is there anyone out there who actually wants to watch someone getting eaten alive or thrown into a trash compactor? What happened to the good scary movies, the ones that had you at the edge of your seat? Nobody knows.

Over the years, movies have gotten increasingly, violently graphic, and for no apparent reason. Maybe our society has become more violent-natured, but what about the rest of us who just want to see a good scary movie again?

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I agree. I no longer enjoy horror movies. Too disgusting. I'll pass on the next installments of Saw and Hostel.