I personally don’t have a problem with seeing those things on screen. For me, they SHOULD have a purpose and not just be gratuitous in nature. Sometimes the director wants to make the audience uncomfortable, they leave these visions, these actions on screen for obscene amounts of time or show way more than what’s actually needed to get an idea across. Sometimes it’s just for the sake of shocking people.

Whatever it’s for, it does work. It gets butts in the seats. That’s what all studios want and directors and so on down the line. As long as audiences eat it up, it doesn’t matter what level your tastes are at, the movies will keep delivering.

Unnecessary? Yeah, in most cases. But everyone wants to emulate these movies that caused this stir back then such as the original LHOTL. What the people remaking them today don’t get is that it’s been done, the affect is way weaker than it was back then. What they do get is that it’s cheap cinema and makes money.

Even Wes Craven talked about how some of the things in the old movie were inappropriate for the new movie. Why they made the rape scene the way they did with the new movie, who knows. But it did it’s job.

I personally don’t have a problem with seeing those things on screen. For me, they SHOULD have a purpose and not just be gratuitous in nature. Sometimes the director wants to make the audience uncomfortable, they leave these visions, these actions on screen for obscene amounts of time or show way more than what’s actually needed to get an idea across. Sometimes it’s just for the sake of shocking people.

Whatever it’s for, it does work. It gets butts in the seats. That’s what all studios want and directors and so on down the line. As long as audiences eat it up, it doesn’t matter what level your tastes are at, the movies will keep delivering.

Unnecessary? Yeah, in most cases. But everyone wants to emulate these movies that caused this stir back then such as the original LHOTL. What the people remaking them today don’t get is that it’s been done, the affect is way weaker than it was back then. What they do get is that it’s cheap cinema and makes money.

Even Wes Craven talked about how some of the things in the old movie were inappropriate for the new movie. Why they made the rape scene the way they did with the new movie, who knows. But it did it’s job.