It wouldn’t have hurt if most of the comedy hadn’t fallen completely flat. Johnny Depp as a Quebecois Inspector Clouseau meets Dr. Sam Loomis was one of the most excruciatingly unfunny things I have ever sat through. This movie stunk…

And no good filmmaker wastes their time to create something just to say “fuck you” to an institution. That’s too much time, emotion and energy for such a superficial pursuit.

That’s a fine statement. But stop being a drama queen, I think you’re the one missing the point. Which is that people take movies individually, why do they have to see every garbage horror movie or they’re turning their back on horror? Did you cry when no one went to see Hold Your Breath when it was in theatres? Why would anyone pay real folding money to see an Asylum movie? Do those fans hate original horror too?

Sigh. You’re totally missing the point. We need to celebrate original horror, as horror fans. Can we at least agree on that statement? Or is that stupid too?

That’s stupid. Rejecting the dumbest sounding movie by one of the worst working directors is rejecting all original horror? Get some standards.

Though the idea can be compared to Human Centipede, Tusk is incredibly original and very much its own movie. And yes. Rejecting any original horror movie, no matter who made it, is rejecting original horror as a whole. I fail to see what’s funny about that.

Oh, and is this THAT original since the premise sounds the same as Human Centipede? Smith came up with the idea while the was screwing around on the radio, why does this seem like a movie worth paying for? Plus, was it even marketed, who knew this was out except Smith’s podcast fans?

Again, my main issue is not the box office. I didn’t expect it to make much more than it did. The issue is horror fans trashing original horror, when they claim to want original horror. You don’t have to like a movie like Tusk, but at least appreciate it. That’s all I’m saying.

There IS that, but let’s face it, there’s not a lot of great horror being made either. Where’s the equivalent to Evil Dead? It’s mostly garbage made by hacks…like Tusk!

It’s opening in Canada next week.

What’s wrong with over lighting something? Look at how affective a film like “Hellraiser” was for fully revealing the Cenobites rather than just hinting at them? I’m not trying to compare Kevin Smith to Clive Barker, but it does work. Here, I thought it worked. I laughed, I was repulsed, it was everything I expected from “Kevin Smith making a ludicrous horror comedy on a ton of drugs” to be.

Oh. That was an intelligent response. Thanks for reading, sb72.

i can only compare he early stuff to his recent stuff. i thought he was really going to do something great after his first three films.

I went in knowing what to expect, and I enjoyed it. But this isn’t really a horror film. It’s a comedy, albiet one with a dark streak.