I think I remember it on the sci-fi channel. Though it may have been the Action channel to. They used to always have mature anime on Saturday like Bio Hunter and Baki the Grappler. I really need to finish Baki. I love the old school B rated
horror series. Modern anime just doesn't do horror justice.
I thought Elfen Lied was a very good horror....
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TheAwsome"
Yea but that's 2004 and it still included the cute girl. I miss the old horror series where the focus was on the monsters and not making them cute looking. Modern horror tends to be more focused on the characters. I'm all for character development but sometimes
you just want to relax and watch a movie with mindless blood and gore. I used to be a Godzilla fan as a kid. Horrible plots but fun to watch for the monster battles.
Hmm I see a lay-back and enjoy type of Anime. Well I think Hellsing covers that while holding a plot as well.
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TheAwsome"
Yai, yai. Godzilla is being remade again by western studios.
But I do understand. The monsters now a days lack the creative impulse of just instilling fear and terror. I rarely find horror and terror competing just from what a monster looks like. A monster should not only terrorize you but should horrify you by the very
sight of it. Far beyond that of grotesque methods of murder, it should chill you to the bone.
Often what scared me the most, or creeped me out, is the white face on a black body. Zeiram from Iria, Larva from Miyu, whatever the heck the bad guy was from Tenchi Muyo: In Love. Hell, even the Kaonashi from Spirited away.
There's something that's just creepy about him. Not to mention that normally these figments give the sense that they are very powerful. But the anonymity of them. The unknown. The fact that it wears a mask and I cannot visibly discern any other part of their
bodies, most the time.
I want the three Steven King levels of fear which is not received in most entertainment today. The gross-out. The horror. And the terror. But to actually involve all three of those it does take a lot of development. You need to be scared not only on a physical
standpoint, but a deep emotional and mental view.