I've been edified by some of the better renditions of "Frankenstein", and the trick there is that there is a context that the horror arrives from Dr. Frankenstein's attempt to usurp the right of God to create and destroy. That is to be contrasted with the "slasher" genre, where the overall goal seems to be to come up with as many instances of violence and nudity/sexuality as possible without getting to an NC-17 or X rating.
The latter is hilariously spoofed, by the way, by Weird Al's song "Nature Trail to Hell", off of his "3D " album.
But overall, my take is that the various genre or horror stand or fall based on the context, and my personal tendency is to be a little bit squeamish at the thought of witnessing the on-screen murders of my fellow human beings. There are ways of portraying the reality without giving every little detail.
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I've been edified by some of the better renditions of "Frankenstein", and the trick there is that there is a context that the horror arrives from Dr. Frankenstein's attempt to usurp the right of God to create and destroy. That is to be contrasted with the "slasher" genre, where the overall goal seems to be to come up with as many instances of violence and nudity/sexuality as possible without getting to an NC-17 or X rating.
The latter is hilariously spoofed, by the way, by Weird Al's song "Nature Trail to Hell", off of his "3D " album.
But overall, my take is that the various genre or horror stand or fall based on the context, and my personal tendency is to be a little bit squeamish at the thought of witnessing the on-screen murders of my fellow human beings. There are ways of portraying the reality without giving every little detail.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.