Comments on: Cronenberg’s First Finger Chop-Off http://www.thehorrorblog.com/2007/09/05/cronenbergs-first-finger-chop-off/ Better Living Through Terror Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:43:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 By: Sean http://www.thehorrorblog.com/2007/09/05/cronenbergs-first-finger-chop-off/#comment-46376 Sean Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:16:13 +0000 http://www.thehorrorblog.com/2007/09/05/cronenbergs-first-finger-chop-off/#comment-46376 I don't think "torture porn" is a useless term at all, utterly or no, and I make my argument here: http://www.alltooflat.com/about/personal/sean/2007/09/in_defense_of_torture_porntowa.html I don’t think “torture porn” is a useless term at all, utterly or no, and I make my argument here:

http://www.alltooflat.com/about/personal/sean/2007/09/in_defense_of_torture_porntowa.html

]]> By: borehole http://www.thehorrorblog.com/2007/09/05/cronenbergs-first-finger-chop-off/#comment-46441 borehole Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:21:48 +0000 http://www.thehorrorblog.com/2007/09/05/cronenbergs-first-finger-chop-off/#comment-46441 I love that he won't do supernatural horror because it would be an endorsement of religion. He's not against it as a subgenre (or a bunch of 'em, whatever), but he's the rare atheist that represents. And for me, "The Fly" is right up there with "The Thing" when it comes to special effects-laden body horror reimaginings of black & white classics that surpass the original but have a really distracting scene involving a computer that works in a way no computer ever has and probably won't for decades yet to come. I love that he won’t do supernatural horror because it would be an endorsement of religion. He’s not against it as a subgenre (or a bunch of ‘em, whatever), but he’s the rare atheist that represents.

And for me, “The Fly” is right up there with “The Thing” when it comes to special effects-laden body horror reimaginings of black & white classics that surpass the original but have a really distracting scene involving a computer that works in a way no computer ever has and probably won’t for decades yet to come.

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