Anyone remember the old "Faces of Death" movies in the 80's?

[nytemare]

What the hell were we thinking that made them so popular?

[Tempest]

1. The same way movies of Nazi brutality were popular

The Nazis perfected the art of showing brutality.

It was a way of desensitizing the public and preparing them for the genocide Hitler had planned.

[Zuni]

2. But the government doesn't make faces of death films

morbid filmakers do to make money off of morbid teenagers

[Tempest]

5. No, but soldiers in Iraq are making them

And the soldiers represent the U.S. government.

See my post #4.

[nytemare]

3. I remember being scared to death of getting in a car wreck

They had some bad crash scenes in those things.

[Tempest]

4. Today's "Faces of Death" created by U.S. soldiers in Iraq

GIs Shoot Iraq battle Footage and Edit it Into Music Videos Filled with Death and Destruction

http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/1407/Extreme_Cinema_Verite

When Pfc. Chase McCollough went home on leave in November, he brought a movie made by fellow soldiers in Iraq. On his first night back at his parents’ house in Texas, he showed the video to his fiancee, family and friends.

This is what they saw: a handful of American soldiers filmed through the green haze of night-vision goggles. Radio communication between two soldiers crackles in the background before it’s drowned out by a heavy-metal soundtrack.

“Don’t need your forgiveness,” the song by the band Dope begins as images unfurl: armed soldiers posing in front of Bradley fighting vehicles, two women covered in black abayas walking along a dusty road, a blue-domed mosque, a poster of radical cleric Muqtada Sadr. Then, to the fast, hard beat of the music — “Die, don’t need your resistance. Die, don’t need your prayers” — charred, decapitated and bloody corpses fill the screen.

“It’s like a trophy, something to keep,” McCullough, 20, said back at his cramped living quarters at Camp Warhorse near Baqubah. “I was there. I did this.”

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[nytemare]

7. I hope he gets psychological help

I went to Iraq, and my "trophies" were things I bought from the people, or gifts from the people.

[Dave Reynolds]

6. I really don't know,

I watched the whole series and have no friggin idea why.

Of course, since then I have worked at a medical examiner's office and got to see some shit that I would rather not have.

[nytemare]

8. I imagine so.

I think it is the thing that makes people slow down to a complete crawl when an accident is fully off to the side of the road. Those people kind of aggravate me, but I think it must be some kind of psychological anomaly.

[Dave Reynolds]

9. It may be related to whatever

makes people want to go to slasher flicks.

Quite a few people want to be grossed out or scared. I think I'm over it now.

Yeah, the folks that slow way down cause a more dangerous situation for everybody.

[nytemare]

12. I like creepy movies, but the gore stuff eludes me now

I enjoy a good psychological creep fest like Silence of the Lambs or The Exorcist. I like being on the edge of my seat.

Maybe I have outgrown the gore.

:shrug:

[Bok_Tukalo]

10. I remember that it was the quickest way to kill a party

Just pop that in the VCR and the party died.

[nytemare]

13. I suppose they would be a party killer

[LynneSin]

11. For me it was kinda a college thing although I never really liked them...

...the seemed to be playing at every college party I went to, especially at the frathouses. They got a kick seeing if they could get some weakass girl puking because she couldn't handle the grossness. Me, they never phased me.

But personally, the movies were just horrible

[nytemare]

14. Yes they were awful

I am sure psychology classes must teach something about why people watch this kind of stuff.