Here’s the thing: horror without any investment in character is simply just an idea plus gore. It equals nothing more than an exercise in gratuitous violence, society’s biggest complaint against cookie-cutter horror films. And that’s a legitimate complaint: after all, why should anyone invest ninety or more minutes of their life in something that, in the end, is nothing more than one more chance for special effects people to show you how they can destroy a human body? … more
Here’s the thing: horror without any investment in character is simply just an idea plus gore. It equals nothing more than an exercise in gratuitous violence, society’s biggest complaint against cookie-cutter horror films. And that’s a legitimate complaint: after all, why should anyone invest ninety or more minutes of their life in something that, in the end, is nothing more than one more chance for special effects people to show you how they can destroy a human body? … more