Comments on: Continuum 5 Galaxies By Gaslight – the report

By: alan

alan — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:16:02 +0000

Thanks Paul, that’s great! It seems that the definite implication is that these movies are just like porn in that the story is irrelevant and you pretty much just watch for the “action” scenes. What story does exist is largely just lip service to tie the action together. Loosely.

Ah well, each to their own. I’ve enjoyed some torture porn and gorenography in my time.

By: Baralier

Baralier — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:23:33 +0000

Hi Alan, sadly I missed the Untapped Fears panel but just thought I’d chime in and say the word I heard a couple of years back to describe things like Saw and Hostel was “gorenography”.

Cheers

Paul

By: alan

alan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:37:50 +0000

Hi Karen. Man, I would have taken the Passion torture porn bait. I could have run with that one!

Steampunk is notoriously hard to define, but here’s a decent effort: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

By: karen from mentor

karen from mentor — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:08:20 +0000

Love Jenny’s drawing of you.

I was involved in a lively blog discussion of torture porn in march where everybody finally got freaked or had said all they had to say or got distracted by something shiny and logged off …at which point the moderator tried to stir it up again by bringing up the passion of the christ as torture porn….it didn’t work, but boy was that a funny thing….
especially since I was the only one left and I told him that I wasn’t going to take THAT bait, so he would be poking an empty room with a stick.
At that point we went… him ..[dissapointed] me.. [laughing] off to make dinner…..

I still don’t know what steampunk is. Can you define that?

and yes, I grinned (but then groaned) at the boy are my arms tired.

By: alan

alan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:20:51 +0000

Hi Nana_Mac – thanks very much. I’m glad that the old horror is still the most enduring!

By: Nana_Mac

Nana_Mac — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:54:55 +0000

Hello Alan,
I loved reading this. I especially l liked what you had to say about the ‘Horror’ genre.

Much of what is called Horror is a long way from that.

I have to admit I still like the monster under the bed. Call me old fashioned

Keep us all entertained.

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