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Gore, blood and guts, nauseating scenes. They are supposed to be thrillers. These movies are supposed to be entertainment? How could one be pleased with the visual effects that only movies can portray? At least with a horror story written in a book uses the imagination of the readers, who often doesn't care about the author's purpose. Regarding the cinema, the author's purpose is to generally please and entertain others. In the case of the horror fill, pleasing the mentally deranged person, is perhaps how they are entertained. How can one even look at the violence that is on the screen? Can one follow the plot, the purpose, or the climax of the story that is to be depicted?

Many of these movies are so gross and so grotesque that even the person that is generally far from squeamish cannot stomach the vividness of the blood's color, on the big screen, the screams that only movie speakers can enhance, or the clear picture of the scenery. Nothing is subtle and nothing is assumed. Clear, visualization is used, along with every sense, to feel the moment as if the viewer was there. The movie-goer often forgets that he is a paying patron sitting in a chair, rather, he or she is on the screen or in the story, at the setting that the writer has carefully explored, and everything is real. It really is quite psychological. Scary can be fun, when one can decipher between fiction and reality, from the comfort and safety of a movie seat; when nothing is left to the imagination, it is true horror!

While everyone has a favorite genre to read or to see, there seems to be no limit or boundary in what can be shown. Some of the movies are almost obscene as to what is allowed. While there may not be sexual content, the violence is unacceptable within the human race. Where there is sexual scenes, such as rape, the violence that written into a movie, is far from entertaining. If anyone were to laugh about this abnormal and illegal behavior, then that person would have to be questioned as far as the person's intent, mental state, to find humor in such a scene, and most likely as disturbed as the move ie!

A movie, such as one that recently came out, "Drag Me to Hell", looks sick when the previews are watched; one cannot imagine what it must be like to sit through the entire movie. Maybe it is time to protest such movies so that the ones from the seventies can be made, that only made us close our eyes for a few minutes or have out date hold us, safe and sound. It was harmless and scary, but did not leave us with mental scars. Even "Night of the Living Dead" from the late sixties, did not prevent many of us from going to "scary movies"; they actually were entertaining!

It's time to have some moral and a conscience when writing these stories and maybe it is time for directors to refuse to make them! Let's leave something to the imagination, when it comes to romance films, but let us not have horror movies affect our minds psychological with imprints of horrific images!

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