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Originally Posted by Slasher25
I also would like opinions on the second issue I brought up as i've found it odd as well. It seems to me especially more recently that in most cases they have veered away from on screen scenes like this period with anyone and especially females i'm not sure why but it just seems they feel like it's more okay to show males being offed more brutally and visually graphic than females that's always just rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. Going along with the female empowerment movement that's been happening which i'm all for but it just kind of irks me that they seem to think it's okay to show males being visually offed as if they aren't as good or deserve it. Just my opinion on it but back to the topic at hand.
Aside from the Males vs females being offed on screen thing even overall period it's seemed they have veered from on screen slasher type scenes even in "slasher" movies if you can call them that these days.They 85% of the time these days seem to go for the showing the slasher coming at them maybe about to swing an axe or something at the person then cutting away. Maybe if there feeling feisty possibly showing the corpse for a second later on. That combined with the other cut away stuff in moves now where there will literally be 20 minutes of build up to a scene of someone being stalked or something only for it to end with the slasher or whoever popping up behind them the person gasping then cutting to black.
It's become so common for people to survive and for things to happen in horror movies that should be the unexpected that I expect it all and im more surprised now days by a character being legitimately offed than I am a movie with a thousand plot twists and turns. To me you can't call a movie that has all off screen cut away flash scenes and half the time 3/4 of the cast all survive maybe 1 offing a slasher just because there is a masked person stalking people. People actually have to be slashed for it to be a slasher lol.
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This probably has more to do with rating of the movie. Less violence = less rating = potentially larger audience market.
Men getting offed more violently than women is not a trend I've really noticed, but if true than perhaps it's because in horror we tend to associate men with strength and women with vulnerability. To build upon that vulnerability of a female a film maker might draw out the psychological element of the violence. For a man they may draw out and enhance the violence itself, to strip the male of his physical strength.