I AM BORED! I AM BORED! I AM BORED! Boredom NEEDS to......FUCK OFF AND DIE!
I will extract boredom's eyes with my yellow teeth and eat them with a rusty spork.
I will use a nail gun and nail each one of boredom's fingers to an upside down crucifix.
I will use my aforementioned rusty spork and draw a pentagram into boredom's forehead.
I will slowly remove boredom's toenails with an old, rusty screwdriver, so it takes a while.
I will insert said toenails into boredom's nasal, anal and eye cavities.
I will crush boredom's toes with an old hammer, that way it'll take a while, like with the screwdriver.
I will use aforementioned hammer and also crush boredom's nose, yes, with toenails still inserted.
I will contact Aleister Crowley's spirit and let him have boredom, to do with what he will.
I will watch as Aleister does what he will with boredom.
And then me and Aleister will sacrifice boredom to Satan.
For Hell is where boredom truly belongs.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
Torture Porn. Good or bad? MY slightly biased and skewed history of the film genre.
I am currently in the process of watching the August Underground Trilogy, and i can now see where the "Torture Porn" craze in American society today (late 20th and early to mid 21st century) came from. Lots of people attribute it to older movies like Salo: 120 Days of Sodom or Cannibal Holocaust or the original I Spit On Your Grave or the original Last House on the Left or House on the edge of the Park, and other related titles of such a nature. But if those movies were the inspiration for such movies as Hostel 1 or 2, these movies being the most effective in portraying the "torture Porn" genre most effectively in the 21st century, then how come movies like that weren't made before?
Movies of such a nature were made for a while in the mid to late 1970's and early to mid 1980's in America and most of them were shelved and never seen or heard from again until the "Grind-house" craze overtook America just a few years ago, thanks to Mr Tarantino and his butt buddy, Robert Rodriguez. Most "grindhouse" movies were shown at drive in's as late night features and in dingy theatre houses located in most major American cities, in the run down parts of town, theatre houses which mostly showed pornography during the day, they would lovingly be dubbed "Grind Houses".
I digress, the "Torture Porn" genre has a sorted history in America. Mostly from the fact that the movies made in the past were independent and never given a fair deal, hence the late night showings at Drive In's and "Grind House" theaters. No one would distribute said movies because of the content, and if one could get there movie distributed, well, it was never marketed correctly and it would fall through the cracks.
A few years later, VHS comes out and it is a pretty big deal. One could film the movie they wanted and distribute it themselves. Comes in the "underground". The Guinea Pig series is probably the first fake snuff film, and probably the first truly "underground" Torture Porn film. It was made in Japan on VHS and sold in little video shops and on the streets as an unlabeled VHS tape. It took the "Underground" cinematic world by storm and was considered real by most that saw it. The FBI was even called in at one point to investigate said film.
Then the Faces of Death series is released, not as an unlabeled VHS tape but as a true account of real deaths being filmed, also fake. But it goes to prove that the market for seeing such things was already established by that point, well, Faces of Death came before The Guinea Pig series, or they both came out at about the same time.
A few years go by and nothing really happens in the fake snuff film/torture porn genre. Enter August Underground, a true "Underground" film that took the horror community by storm. All fake, of course, but it is the truest account of what a snuff film would probably look like if anyone could get there hands on one. It is basically a study in sociopathic behavior as seen through the eyes of the sociopaths themselves. It is a true "torture porn"/"Fake Snuff" film and it is NUTS! The whole trilogy is NUTS! But the second and third movies in the trilogy are more nuts than the first one.
Many people attribute people like Ruggero Deodato or Takashe Miike as pioneers is the "Torture Porn" genre, i mean Cannibal Holocaust and Visitor Q are pretty fucked up in their own rights. But even those movies nor the people that made said movies can hold a candle to Fred Vogel. As far as i am concerned, Fred Vogel is responsible for the "Torture Porn" craze in America today. Eli Roth shouldn't have had Taksahe Miike and Ruggero Deodato make cameo appearances in Hostel 2, he should have just had Fred Vogel signed on as Executive Produce and co-writer and co-star as one of the main torturers in said film.
As far as I am concerned, Fred Vogel deserves the credit for using the "Underground" film market effectively and for bringing back the "Torture Porn" film genre to American society.
Eli Roth and others like him are good at what they do, but they are getting credit for basically remaking August Underground and just wrapping a plot around it. Fred Vogel deserves the credit that they are getting, but of course main stream society will never acknowledge his submissions and efforts into bringing back a genre in film that was once considered dead.
Movies of such a nature were made for a while in the mid to late 1970's and early to mid 1980's in America and most of them were shelved and never seen or heard from again until the "Grind-house" craze overtook America just a few years ago, thanks to Mr Tarantino and his butt buddy, Robert Rodriguez. Most "grindhouse" movies were shown at drive in's as late night features and in dingy theatre houses located in most major American cities, in the run down parts of town, theatre houses which mostly showed pornography during the day, they would lovingly be dubbed "Grind Houses".
I digress, the "Torture Porn" genre has a sorted history in America. Mostly from the fact that the movies made in the past were independent and never given a fair deal, hence the late night showings at Drive In's and "Grind House" theaters. No one would distribute said movies because of the content, and if one could get there movie distributed, well, it was never marketed correctly and it would fall through the cracks.
A few years later, VHS comes out and it is a pretty big deal. One could film the movie they wanted and distribute it themselves. Comes in the "underground". The Guinea Pig series is probably the first fake snuff film, and probably the first truly "underground" Torture Porn film. It was made in Japan on VHS and sold in little video shops and on the streets as an unlabeled VHS tape. It took the "Underground" cinematic world by storm and was considered real by most that saw it. The FBI was even called in at one point to investigate said film.
Then the Faces of Death series is released, not as an unlabeled VHS tape but as a true account of real deaths being filmed, also fake. But it goes to prove that the market for seeing such things was already established by that point, well, Faces of Death came before The Guinea Pig series, or they both came out at about the same time.
A few years go by and nothing really happens in the fake snuff film/torture porn genre. Enter August Underground, a true "Underground" film that took the horror community by storm. All fake, of course, but it is the truest account of what a snuff film would probably look like if anyone could get there hands on one. It is basically a study in sociopathic behavior as seen through the eyes of the sociopaths themselves. It is a true "torture porn"/"Fake Snuff" film and it is NUTS! The whole trilogy is NUTS! But the second and third movies in the trilogy are more nuts than the first one.
Many people attribute people like Ruggero Deodato or Takashe Miike as pioneers is the "Torture Porn" genre, i mean Cannibal Holocaust and Visitor Q are pretty fucked up in their own rights. But even those movies nor the people that made said movies can hold a candle to Fred Vogel. As far as i am concerned, Fred Vogel is responsible for the "Torture Porn" craze in America today. Eli Roth shouldn't have had Taksahe Miike and Ruggero Deodato make cameo appearances in Hostel 2, he should have just had Fred Vogel signed on as Executive Produce and co-writer and co-star as one of the main torturers in said film.
As far as I am concerned, Fred Vogel deserves the credit for using the "Underground" film market effectively and for bringing back the "Torture Porn" film genre to American society.
Eli Roth and others like him are good at what they do, but they are getting credit for basically remaking August Underground and just wrapping a plot around it. Fred Vogel deserves the credit that they are getting, but of course main stream society will never acknowledge his submissions and efforts into bringing back a genre in film that was once considered dead.
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