The group I play with all love Ash and the Evil Dead. Gore is funny to them. If we want to be scary, we have to be psychologically scary. My brother is good at that. He had his whole group freaking out as they went through a fairy forest, and we’re bombarded by hallucinations.
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GlassJaw
Hero
Actually, gore is not one of the defining characteristics of the gothic horror genre. Gothic horror is about fear, terror, the unknown, implied evil, and atmosphere. Gothic horror is subtle; gore is not.
I'm inclined to agree.
slasher flicks aren't really horror, let alone gothic horror... sex, romance, & our base instincts exposed are more central themes there. Look at frankenstein or dracula
Doc_Klueless
Doors and Corners
I seldom use explicit gore. Not for any other reason than I seldom remember to use it as I get caught up in making the action surge along. So I might do: "You lop his head off!" but not: "Geysers of blood fountain from his neck stump as his body contorts and falls twitching to the ground!" or some such.
Now, for the death of the BBG, I'll be way more descriptive and verbose. But even then, I've taken a cue from Critical Role and Dice, Camera, Action and will go "What does it look like?" to the killing blow deliverer.
Now, for the death of the BBG, I'll be way more descriptive and verbose. But even then, I've taken a cue from Critical Role and Dice, Camera, Action and will go "What does it look like?" to the killing blow deliverer.
If they aren't horror, what are they? I mean, they elicit fear... just using a particular angle. Why aren't they horror?
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a slasher movie.
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Movies about near-indestructible Serial Killers stalking attractive young women, a combination that allows for buckets of gore and enough flesh to titillate. The killers, mostly driven by revenge, are also typically somewhat Made of Iron, at a …
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Gothic Horror - TV Tropes
Gothic Horror is one of the oldest of the horror genres. Darker, edgier and on the Romanticism end of Romanticism Versus Enlightenment (in fact, it quite literally emerged alongside the Romantic movement in the late 18th century as a reaction …
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Comparing the two is like comparing hard scifi like gattica, the martian, 2001, arrival, etc to soft scifi like star trek:ToS or buck rogers.. All of them are science fiction just like both of the others are "horror"... but they are wildly different genres
I know slasher movies aren't Gothic horror. That's not what I'm responding to.
You said "slasher flicks aren't really horror." That's what I'm asking about. It seems to me that slasher flicks fit solidly under the overall Horror umbrella, and if you contend otherwise, I'd like to know your justification for that.
Son of the Serpent
Pupil
This is why i only use it as either a garnish or when a player asks to know in detail the description of something (when that thing realistically would HAVE to be gory. Such as when someone was scaphed for instance). I agree completely. There is definitely a time and a place. You never wanna make gore lose its zest by simply using it too often.
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