Red Mosquito

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Movies can be scary or have secondary horror elements without being horror movies. But whatever, I guess it doesn't really matter.

LoathedVermin72 wrote: But whatever, I guess it doesn't really matter.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Oh man, I love all the kid-swearing in Monster Squad.

tragabigzanda wrote:"blood=horror, laugher≠horror" is an oversimplification I can't get behind.

bada wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Oh man, I love all the kid-swearing in Monster Squad.

I don't mind swearing just the whole being gay as a negative. My kid could be gay for all I know.

tragabigzanda wrote:I like films that defy easy categorization, and "blood=horror, laugher≠horror" is an oversimplification I can't get behind.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

bada wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Oh man, I love all the kid-swearing in Monster Squad.

I don't mind swearing just the whole being gay as a negative. My kid could be gay for all I know.

I get what you're saying. I just look at it as an accurate depiction of kids in the '80s (and a lot of kids now).

E.H. Ruddock wrote:sorry, but laughter does not equal horror.

bada wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:sorry, but laughter does not equal horror.

You haven't seen me naked.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

bada wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:sorry, but laughter does not equal horror.

You haven't seen me naked.

I retract my statement

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.