ChemicallyEnhanced
Bluelighter
What horror movies can you think of where "the horror" part happens, at least in part, to a character or characters who absolutely deserved what happened to them.
Some examples (in my opinion):
Mrs McCarmody, The Mist (2007) - this religious fanatic riled up a group of culty followers and got them to sacrifice innocent people to the creatures in the mist. She died trying to murder an 8 year old boy.
Almost Everybody, Carrie (1976, 2002, 2013) - these people bullied, abused, humiliated and terrorized Carrie her entire life until she had a complete psychological meltdown. So...makes it VERY hard to have an empathy for them during the prom scene (or her mother later on). Yes, there were a handful of sympathetic people there (the gym teacher, Heather in the remakes...technically Tommy but the falling bucket killed him, not Carrie) but they mostly all deserved it...we're talking movies here and in all the movie version at least SOME of the laughter in the prom scene was just in her head, but I find it hard to forget that in the novel, everybody is laughing at her for real, even the gym teacher.
The Rapists, I Spit on Your Grave (1978, 2010) - yeah, I'd hope everybody completely agrees with this one. For anyone who hasn't seen either version, Jennifer Hills rents like a home in the woods in this backwoods town and ends up being gang raped (THREE TIMES IN ONE NIGHT) and humiliated by 5 local men after she rejects ones advances. You think it's gonna be okay when the sheriff arrives...but he instead joins the sexual assault. They leave her for dead and she slowly heals and then basically tortures them to death one by one. Um, even though the ways she kills them are horrible and disturbing (in the 2010 version especially), I didn't have one tiny shred of empathy for them. It's extreme satisfying watching her revenge.
Some examples (in my opinion):
Mrs McCarmody, The Mist (2007) - this religious fanatic riled up a group of culty followers and got them to sacrifice innocent people to the creatures in the mist. She died trying to murder an 8 year old boy.
Almost Everybody, Carrie (1976, 2002, 2013) - these people bullied, abused, humiliated and terrorized Carrie her entire life until she had a complete psychological meltdown. So...makes it VERY hard to have an empathy for them during the prom scene (or her mother later on). Yes, there were a handful of sympathetic people there (the gym teacher, Heather in the remakes...technically Tommy but the falling bucket killed him, not Carrie) but they mostly all deserved it...we're talking movies here and in all the movie version at least SOME of the laughter in the prom scene was just in her head, but I find it hard to forget that in the novel, everybody is laughing at her for real, even the gym teacher.
The Rapists, I Spit on Your Grave (1978, 2010) - yeah, I'd hope everybody completely agrees with this one. For anyone who hasn't seen either version, Jennifer Hills rents like a home in the woods in this backwoods town and ends up being gang raped (THREE TIMES IN ONE NIGHT) and humiliated by 5 local men after she rejects ones advances. You think it's gonna be okay when the sheriff arrives...but he instead joins the sexual assault. They leave her for dead and she slowly heals and then basically tortures them to death one by one. Um, even though the ways she kills them are horrible and disturbing (in the 2010 version especially), I didn't have one tiny shred of empathy for them. It's extreme satisfying watching her revenge.
