Mr Sparky, I agree with you - it can be done at a humorous level, and then it is healthy. I can also relate to the idea of using such images and movies to bring out subconscious fears and allay them. But I feel the 3d industry has crossed a line somewhere. I don't know exactly where the line is, because I am averting my eyes. Wallowing in gore, pus and rotten slime can't be good for anybody's state of mind. When the images go to this extreme it is not very different from pornography except that the subject is not sex, but death, disease and violence.

Honouring those who have gone before us is great - but let's honour their spirit and our memories of them, let's not perve over their rotten bodies. Such horror images are not respectful of the departed.

In my country we have a spate of "muthi murders" every now and then, where people (often children) are killed and dismembered and the body parts used for "traditional medicine". Yes, this stuff is real.

I wonder - if somebody were to make gory 3d images of dead and rotting elephants killed by poachers, or rhinos bleeding to death, their starving calves slowly dying next to their dead parents, would that be all right? Especially if the message behind these images would not be to stop the senseless killing, but to sell more 3d content? I bet there would be an outcry. Why is it OK to have such images of humans? Or don't we see zombies as human?

We do not live in the middle ages any more. These days, when people die, we cover them with a sheet and close their eyes.

 

 

 

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