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Originally Posted by Roderick Usher
I care. What I enjoy most from a horror/scifi/fantasy film is the ability to present huge themes within an audience-friendly framework.
Brutality loses impact after a while and simply becomes numbing, which may be someone's intention, but hardly the way I want to feel after viewing a film.
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Totally agree with this. Although I haven't seen this film, any film which shows torture scenes, especially prolonged ones, always seems lazy to me. There is more to horror than seeing someones fear and pain, and while it serves a purpose, there should always be a reason behind torture scenes. Anything else is just sadism, which can be horrific, but not horror.