"Ankle"
I seem to have, over the course of the past year, become resensitized to movie violence.As a horror fan for over a decade now, I find this personally distressing. Earlier this year, I went to see a little film called "Hard Candy". Amazing movie, one of my favourites. There is a scene of implied violence of the most unspeakable kind. In the theatre, I almost passed out, which is the first time that's ever happened.
I am not a fan of violence, and have a horrible fear of blood and injury, but I've always been able to separate fact and fiction. I can't watch real life surgery on TLC, but I can watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre, for example.
Since Hard Candy, that's changed. The finale of the book Gerald's Game by Stephen King made me nearly faint, and even Steve Carrell's character wearing bandages on his slit wrists in Little Miss Sunshine made me feel a little off. I managed to go and see The Descent in theatres with no problem, but the extreme violence in that one was fast, and characters died quickly.
I went with Stephanie this week to see SAW III. I am a huge fan of the first two, and have been looking forward to seeing this one for a long time. Even so, I heard about the upped gore factor in this one, and wondered to myself if maybe it was a bad idea to try and see it. I skipped the new Texas Chainsaw for the very same reasons.
Anyway, my love of the series overcame my reservations, and I even chowed down half a bag of popcorn before it even began.
The opening scene, concerning the ultimate fate of a character from SAW II, was so violent and......crunchy.....that I saw spots in front of my eyes and had to lay back and shut my eyes for a minute. This did not bode well.
To say SAW III was more violent than its predecessors is an understatement. I had to get up and leave to get fresh air three times before I finally couldn't take it anymore and walked out. For the first time in my life, I walked out of a horror movie sick to my stomach.
Mere discussions of the violence in the movie makes me feel ill.
I am deeply upset by this. Horror is one of my favourite genres, and I can't enjoy it anymore.
I wonder if I will eventually lose the ability to enjoy what little else I have left.