Too much violence a GOOD THING?!?!?!?

[strictlyhorror]

Well my second post asks...

Is too much violence a good thing?

The films that I aim to make are character driven. I want you to like the lovable characters, and loath the hell out of the ass-holes. They also are one violent gag after another. Like Sam Raimi (Evil Dead 1) I to think the audience should be punished for wathing a horror film. I watch horror films noadays and its a snore. Old films like silent night, deadly night and friday the 13th one bloody body falling after another.

Big studios churn out hughe piles of sh*t, while nobodys like us make some good stuff even though some are bad, but thats the magic of independant/b-movies, the bad acting the boom mic falling in frame, the karo syrup on the walls to look like a savage murder.

Tyee M.

[lancer]

Currently speaking, "the Big Shooters" has seen the value of the new rated "R" (Aka, PG-13)!

They are pushing the limits of the movie by letting the MPAA tell "the Big Shooter" what they need to edit to make the PG-13 rating and then they will release the "Unrated Version" of the movie on DVD. It seems that Videos, DVD's, Cable/TV and Video Games can escape the MPAA radar. And the Big Shooter know this and is why many movies (popular films) seems non-bloody.

[Ok, I will hold off on my MPAA rant for now]

Old films like silent night, deadly night and friday the 13th one bloody body falling after another.

Unless you didnt know those movies were built on a shoestring budget, as well as many slasher films did from 1978 to 1986 (Before Made For Video). The Big Producers didnt really see Slasher films worth funding, maybe because some of these "big budget" slasher films didnt make as much money as the cheesy (very cheap) slasher films did.

(The Big Producers Logic) Why spend millions of dollars to make another Dress to Kill or Body Double when Friday the 13th or The Burning could be made within 10,000 to 50,000, and have a bigger return!

What the viewers wanted to see back then was a cheap slasher film! That was very cheesy with almost no story line and Teenage Girls getting naked for any dumb reason and a body count (the more dead the better the movie).

So most of the early slasher movies were Low Budget films that students would make during spring break. And they would sell them to a production company, or get some production money (10,000 to 50,000) to complete filming. Because they were so low budget many actors got cheap pay, the killer would have a cheap gimmick (or no gimmick), the lighting would be very bad (making it very hard to see at times, but in a strange way adding the effect to the horror film) and the budget was really spent on gore! Very rear it would be spent on other special effects.

[strictlyhorror]

ok First of Lancer screw the MPAA they wont be touching or seeing my first few films.

I know those films were on a shoe string budget infact SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT was a 1 million dollar budget entierly funded by Tri-Star Entertainment. FRIDAY THE 13TH was a nine hundred thousend dollar film. So sometimes your lucky as hell to get some like Tri-Star to by and pay for the film to be made or sell your house like John Carpenter did to make HALLOWEEN.

The films i plan on making will have a $7,000 to $50,000 dollars for a budget. Sorry to rant or come off angry i havent had much sleep creating characters and story for a feature film.

the shorts i'll be making will have a thousend dollars or the lowest 500 dollars, i'll be doing the make up fx (still learning), camera operator, writer, director and possibly cinematography.

ranting again!!!