Why the shock value is important for horror:

For horror movies there's certain things that are a must have. Blood. Lots and lots of blood, dumb teenagers, the killer, and something to shock the pants off of you. In horror movies there is always something that makes you go WTF!! Most of the horror movie nowadays are going for the typical scenario and they leave nothing for the imagination. It's usually about a bunch of teenagers having a party and one of their friends stumble away from the group and gets themselves killed. Suddenly the lights go out and everyone panics then it becomes the battle to survive blah, blah, blah. Where's the fun in that?! If you really want a good horror movie you have to go for the ones that don't follow the rules. What I like about the movie "The Human Centipede" is it doesn't follow the rules and it's the type of movie that no one has ever thought about doing cause nobody wanted to take that chance and go for the WTF reaction. I think it's because their too afraid to take that chance and they don't know how the audience will react to their work. People just need to take the chance and whatever happens will happen. You're never going to know unless you try and go out and just do it.

A good horror movie is disturbing, creepy and you leave the theatre feeling gross and uneasy. You don't go to a horror movie to laugh or to feel warm and fuzzy inside. You go to a horror movie to get the crap scared out of you and to feel disturbed. It's like one big roller coaster, you go up and down to the side, under the chair, face buried in the box of you're popcorn. You're emotions are all over the place then you get the sudden urge to vomit all along with a great storyline and concept. Now THAT is a good horror movie. What sucks is you don't see that in horror movies anymore. Nowadays all you see is remakes, movies coming out in 3D. Where's the originality? No one's willing to go out and take the chance on a movie concept cause their afraid it's going to be controversial. When you think about it everything in this world is controversial, it's not that it's really controversial it's just another thing for people to complain about cause their easily offended. Nobody likes to feel creeped out or disturbed so that's why they don't go to movies that make them feel like that.

For me I love that feeling, I crave it. It's a adrenaline rush, like a high and it makes me feel good. When I come home and I show my mom the movies I bought which of course are all horror movies, she laughs and says why don't you watch movies that make you happy and bring up you're spirits, well I do. Horror movies makes me happy cause it's something that I love and live for it's something that I revolve my life around. I like anything that shocks people like style of clothing, make-up, music and movies which is why I love horror movies. I'm just a twisted person. Not the type of twisted that you should be locked in a mental asylum, I'm just twisted in the way I think and the movies I like.

"If you're not out shocking people then you're just plain boring" - Jenny Krueger