Why do some people enjoy horror and torture movies?
Shock. We as a society like to see things that shock us. It's why we used to watch executions on the square. It's why crowds gathered for hangings. It's why we slow down on the freeway to view that car accident. It's why we watch those shocking videos on Youtube. We loved to be shocked. And what drives this is curiosity. We are a very curious race. We ask strange questions to ourselves in the dark of night. "I wonder what it's like to rob a bank?""I wonder what it's like to kill someone?" "I wonder what it's like to see someone tortured?" "I wonder what it is like to be a serial killer?"These are dark questions that our curiosity within can't help but ask. It's about our minds trying to make sense of it all. Trying to figure out how such things can happen, why they happen, how they happen, and how we would feel if it happened to us.Thankfully, most of us have the moral compass to reject such notions and to reject taking such curiosity to dangerous and immoral levels. With Saw, and other horror movies, we allow the filmmakers to present answers to such questions for us. And we experience them in a moral manner without guilt because we know that in the end, it's all smoke and mirrors. An illusion. No one is really getting hurt. And back in olden times, when public executions were a town, and sometimes family, event to witness, those citizens had detachment of guilt and shame because it was an authoritative action that they had no control over. Our curiosity leads us to the thrill of being shocked. That's why the Saw films are so successful. That's why the horror genre is so impenetrable and has been since films like Nosferatu. Beyond the ever present gore of the Saw franchise films, the added brilliance of them is not necessarily the end result of the physical and psychological torture, but the tension that is built in those moments before the character's eventual fate. It's a thrill. A shocking thrill that gets our adrenaline going.
Why are most horror movies made in Hollywood?
Not most, but still a significantly higher number when compared to other film industries. One of the reasons may be that Hollywood makes more films in one language than any other film industry in the world. So, if we consider the percentage of horror films to be a constant, then obviously it delivers higher number of movies. Also, we need to take the cultural influences into account. Barring few cities, most parts of USA, or for that matter most parts of Europe and USA (assuming Hollywood basically sets stories in these places), are not as populated as many Asian Countries like India, China, Japan, etc. etc. Adding to this, there is a high probability for a person to turn into a loner which is when he is most likely to have spooky encounters (Have you ever heard of anything like a mass horror movie? I didn't!! Horrific incidents generally hit a group, a family, or a person, but never effect thousands of people. Save the Atomic Bombings please!) There are beliefs and incidents which instill horror into their ideas. For example, Unmarked graves are haunted; Violence causes a lot of negative energy, various urban legends, etc. etc. History also plays an important part. Abandoned towns, settlements, violence during civil wars, gold rush, serial killers, world wars, and what not!!I guess such influences slightly skewed the percentage of horror movies made in Hollywood. But hey, these things are everywhere. But, Asians don't really give as much time or space to muse over such things as the Europeans or Americans. Thus, we get a whole lot of horror stories made in Hollywood.
What are the best "small town blighted with terror" movies?
"The Seven Samurai" and its American remake "The Magnificent Seven" are about small farming communities who are year after year raided by bandits. They gather their money to hire mercenaries to defend the town, but only have enough to buy seven, so they must learn to fight alongside the mercenaries.Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" is one of the greatest film's ever made and is a gloriously violent film that Kurosawa meant to be a Japanese homage to Howard Hawks westerns. "The Magnificent Seven" is not the cinematic masterpiece that "Seven Samurai" is, but it is still a fine film, and historically it is one of the last US studio westerns of the golden era and it presaged the rise of the anti-hero that ran so strongly in the "Spaghetti Western" era that followed. Oh, and the soundtrack by Elmer Bernstein rules.Another Kurosawa film, "Yojimbo" is about a small town taken over by two rival gangs. It was based on a Dashiell Hammett story "Red Harvest" and it too was remade for western audiences, once as the Sergio Leone film "A Fist Full of Dollars" and then again as the Bruce Willis vehicle "Last Man Standing". While I recognize "Seven Samurai" is a superior film. I actually enjoy "Yojimbo" more and probably watch it once a year.
Where are the wild areas in USA that we see in horror movies?
Literally every US state has its own “wild areas”. The United States is a surprisingly rural country compared to a lot of other Western nations. You can pretty much jump on any interstate and drive for a little while (sometimes a few hours, sometimes a few minutes) and you’ll quickly find yourself a million miles from anything.One of the really neat things about the United States from a cinematographer’s perspective is that it contains just about every kind of landscape on Earth. You want a desert? Go to the southwest. You want a forest? Go to New England. You want mountains and valleys? Go to Wyoming. You want frozen tundra? Go to Alaska. You want beautiful beaches? Hell, most every coastal state has got at least one of those somewhere. You want a fucking volcano? Go to Hawaii.You want it? We got it.
(Spanish) Horror movie I can't find?
Yes, it is a Spanish movie. The original title is "Películas para no dormir: Regreso a Moira" (2006) directed by Mateo Gil. In USA is "Films to Keep You Awake: Spectre". In my country (México) is "6 películas para no dormir - Espectro: Regreso a Moira". Plot from IMDb: "Alejandro is an elderly writer, and is driving back to the small costal village where he was born and raised. But the peaceful place of his memories has been turned into a vast tourist resort, full of brazen consumerism with no charm left at all. Once there, Alejandro reminisces about a painful episode from his past. When he was a child he met a mysterious woman whom he has been trying to forget ever since. A woman of wild beauty, she was married to a sailor. However, there were rumours in the village that she was having a relationship with another man and so all her neighbours disowned her because of her supposedly adulterous behaviour. But Alejandro was totally and madly in love with her." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460897/syno... Here is complete, but in spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaAwxyMy...
You are trapped in the last horror movie you watched, the last game character in the last game you played is going to protect you, how screwed are you?
The movie was IT which sees an evil entity , taking on the form of Pennywise the dancing clown, terrorise people especially children, in order to feed on their fear.The last game I played was The Wolf and my character was Redfang, a red wolf. In the game, when you are pack leader you can call your pack to come help you defeat your prey so it would be a wolf pack aka a zillion teeth against an evil clown aka a zillion teeth. Although nothing is mentioned in the movie about Pennywise’s views to animals so chances are he would leave me alone to go on my merry way.IT is set in a fictional town Derry in Maine USA and I think that I stand more chance of being killed by one the townspeople with a gun then by IT. ( I live in Australia and have no idea what the gun/hunting laws are in Maine. It gets cold there so I assume someone is going to want my beautiful red wolf pelt as a scarf aka I'm assuming I'm totally screwed)
What's the name of that movie with the scary killer clown?
Ye steven king's........... IT Only other film I know with clown is Killer Clowns.......
Are there any good movies which depict life, times and sights (towns, cities) and sounds of Victorian England (London)?
Here is a list of movies depicting that era.Young VictoriaSweeny ToddSherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr. version)An Ideal HusbandThe Importance of Being EarnestMrs. BrownGreat Expectations (2013 version)AffinityBasilTessTo Walk Invisible (great true story about the Bronte sisters)