as you get older are your views those horror books changing 0

[NoMan]

I love looking at the PCH books here for sale and have know a bit about them (especially EC) for awhile even when I was a a 10 year old collector. At 10 years old I'd think' "HOW DARE THEY CENSOR BOOKS."

I don't have kids. Ain't gonna. So maybe it's more a question for you guys that have impressinable little ones now. And if you got little girls. All the girls dressed in no clothes about to be slaughtered/.But as I look through the groovy books you guys own, some of those PCA horror books are off the chain with the killing of near naked women. 

Just curious

 

Edited June 29, 2018 by NoMan

[Real Elijah Snow]

21 minutes ago, NoMan said:

some of those PCA horror books are off the chain with the killing of near naked women. 

 

 

There's a custom title if I've ever seen one  

[NoMan]

I remember some film interviewer was asking Hershall Gordon Lewis why the women in his movies were always killed and chopped up. And he said something like, "If women would buy tickets to watch men be cut up, than I'd kill and cut up men in my films but they don't"

[NoMan]

Likewise, I think Brian Depalma just cut to the chase when asked about the violence towards women in his films, "They're great looking and sexy women, what else am I going to do with them but kill them?"

[Buzzetta]

Some of the boardies that know me personally know of the following.   It's not meant fro dramatic effect but to give an honest answer as to your question. 

So, by the time I was 29, I was dating this girl for around four years.  I met up with her on the way home from work to do some shopping before we were to go to her sister's house for dinner.  She was driving her car in front of me as I followed and saw an object flash in front of me.  Her car came to a screeching halt and I slammed on my breaks as well.  She had hit a pedestrian that went through her car.  For the skeptical forensic scientists reading this, the body went into the air and as she slammed on her brakes it went through the rear window.   I opened up her car and found the woman in her backseat and she was all twisted but still making sounds and then died right in front of me. 

At that time I was still playing video games to blow off steam after a long day at work. I would come home and get paperwork done.  Once I did that, I would play a few missions of something like Grand Theft Auto and then call it a night. 

After I saw that woman die, I could never quite play a game like Grand Theft Auto ever again.  It was too real.  As I had gotten older, experience taught me that maybe something like that was not entertaining.   

 

[NoMan]

12 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

Some of the boardies that know me personally know of the following.   It's not meant fro dramatic effect but to give an honest answer as to your question. 

So, by the time I was 29, I was dating this girl for around four years.  I met up with her on the way home from work to do some shopping before we were to go to her sister's house for dinner.  She was driving her car in front of me as I followed and saw an object flash in front of me.  Her car came to a screeching halt and I slammed on my breaks as well.  She had hit a pedestrian that went through her car.  For the skeptical forensic scientists reading this, the body went into the air and as she slammed on her brakes it went through the rear window.   I opened up her car and found the woman in her backseat and she was all twisted but still making sounds and then died right in front of me. 

At that time I was still playing video games to blow off steam after a long day at work. I would come home and get paperwork done.  Once I did that, I would play a few missions of something like Grand Theft Auto and then call it a night. 

After I saw that woman die, I could never quite play a game like Grand Theft Auto ever again.  It was too real.  As I had gotten older, experience taught me that maybe something like that was not entertaining.   

 

I kinda figure it's happen to a fair % of people,. Not so much the specifics of the horrible story, but finding of what's entertaining and what's not. Hence the question. 

I wonder how vets felt about G.I. Joe and the such? Not bringing you into it Buzz cause I know you like the action figures, just curious again. 

[Ken Aldred]

27 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

Some of the boardies that know me personally know of the following.   It's not meant fro dramatic effect but to give an honest answer as to your question. 

So, by the time I was 29, I was dating this girl for around four years.  I met up with her on the way home from work to do some shopping before we were to go to her sister's house for dinner.  She was driving her car in front of me as I followed and saw an object flash in front of me.  Her car came to a screeching halt and I slammed on my breaks as well.  She had hit a pedestrian that went through her car.  For the skeptical forensic scientists reading this, the body went into the air and as she slammed on her brakes it went through the rear window.   I opened up her car and found the woman in her backseat and she was all twisted but still making sounds and then died right in front of me. 

At that time I was still playing video games to blow off steam after a long day at work. I would come home and get paperwork done.  Once I did that, I would play a few missions of something like Grand Theft Auto and then call it a night. 

After I saw that woman die, I could never quite play a game like Grand Theft Auto ever again.  It was too real.  As I had gotten older, experience taught me that maybe something like that was not entertaining.   

 

Not too surprising, as you possibly suffered some PTSD after experiencing that, and you are then likely to avoid games, films or comic books with similarities which bring memories of the event back to the surface. I manifest something very similar with certain films, which, after my own most traumatising experience, I simply can't watch any more and actively avoid them. 

Edited June 29, 2018 by Ken Aldred

[Buzzetta]

21 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

Not too surprising, as you possibly suffered some PTSD after experiencing that, and you are then likely to avoid games, films or comic books with similarities which bring memories of the event back to the surface. I manifest something very similar with certain films, which, after my own most traumatising experience, I simply can't watch any more and actively avoid them. 

It's interesting that you bring that up.  I have no issues watching a movie when someone gets hit by a car or reading the news when a terrorist plows into a group of people.  GTA though for some reason is a turnoff to me perhaps it is because the experience is celebrated in the game and you are actually rewarded by the experience. 

However, after what I did to my elbow a few years ago, I cannot watch any type of traumatic elbow injury without getting squeamish and 'feeling' the pain in the arm.  That to me is strange. 

Edited June 29, 2018 by Buzzetta

[1950's war comics]

there is a gut wrenching and very disturbing video on youtube from three days ago of two men drowning in the Niagara river in Buffalo

i watched it and then wished i hadn't, but i can't help from keeping on watching it wishing that somehow it could have ended up differently

[Mercury Man]

Not interested in horror comics (or movies).  They have pretty much covered every gruesome way to die in comics/movies/books/video games.  Now it seems to have accelerated in real life with the mass shootings, terrorism, internet, dark web etc.   We are inundated with horrible stories about random death (just look at Yahoo's home page everyday).  

I watched the Walking Dead for awhile, then it just devolved into gore porn.   If you found Glenn getting his head bashed in 'entertaining', you may need help. 

I prefer to focus on the beauty of life, and laughing as much as possible, because life is truly short. 

[Jeffro.]

20 hours ago, Mercury Man said:

Not interested in horror comics (or movies).  They have pretty much covered every gruesome way to die in comics/movies/books/video games.  Now it seems to have accelerated in real life with the mass shootings, terrorism, internet, dark web etc.   We are inundated with horrible stories about random death (just look at Yahoo's home page everyday).  

I find it fascinating that we, as a society, seem to have little problem with graphic violence but sex is a big no no. People get all up in arms about nudity but you can show, in graphic detail, someone being murdered. I realize it's fiction but sometimes the depiction is very real. I'm not even really talking about horror movies either. You need not go any further than prime time TV to see it. I know we're not going back to TV like we saw in the 60s but I feel like we've swung too far in the other direction.