(OT) Re: [UA] Recommended fiction

[Ville Halonen]

Kevin Elmore wrote:
>You didn't like it pre-UA?  I'm outraged.  I think everyone should like it.  So, how did that change come about?  A few years ago were you turned off by depressing themes and have come on over to the dark side?

That's one way of saying it. The other is that I'm only 20 and have just passed the phooking teenage. Shallow Grave was published when I was a teenager: teenagers don't like anything.
 
Well, maybe sleeping with demons. And maybe Pulp Fiction, which I watched about twenty times in a month or so. I've calmed down since then.

James O'Rance wrote:
>I'm always surprised when I hear that someone hasn't seen Hellraiser (nothing to do with Hellblazer, btw). Honestly, it's a moderately famous horror film - does nobody go to the video store anymore?

I know it's a moderately famous horror film – I've been aware of its existence for years. But thanks to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, some smartass Moral Backbone in the eighties got this *brilliant* idea of increased censorship. Until January this year, NC-17 or R (they're both under a K-18 rating) rated videos were either banned or heavily cut (the law didn't include movie theaters, horribly expensive import stores, and cable tv). So no Hellraiser, since none of my friends owned copies-of-copies-of-copies. They released Hellraiser 2 earlier this year, but I don't know about their plans for the first one.

-V
>From Finland, signing off


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