Does Goth Culture Hurt Horror?

[eetstatik]

I'm assuming everyone knows what exactly Goth Culture is. I was wondering if the seeming hand-in-hand nature of Goth music and style and horror actually turns some people off from looking more into horror. I'm not a Goth myself, so if anyone subscribes to that style and like comment on something i might not notice, go ahead.

[Fulci_Fan]

It doesn't hurt the horror culture but it certainly doesn't help it out much. When the new cliche' character to have in horror movies is the outcast goth, See BWP 2. But with the new trend of Psychological horror movies this fad is dying pretty quickly.

[XpatrickX]

Yeah I think it has somewhat of a negative effect on SOME horror movies, but the more the movies stay away from it, the better.

[Romero&Juliet]

to an older, less hip audience, the presence of a "goth" can evoke a kind of hedonistic sort of air... Like in The Hunger, for example.. John and Mariam, the eurotrash extrordinaires, visit a goth club to quench their appetite for the younger, cooler genoration..

there was a looottt of gray area with that kind of scene back then(and even now..!) surrounding their lifestyle,
creed, sexual orientation.. all those icky things that an adult contemporary audience would get a little squeamish over.. In this case, it DID help the movie..


Obviously, goth-Culture died out a long time ago, so there's not gonna be that much of a market for it... besides the kind of throwbacks to the glorious eighties that we happen to see a lot nowadays..

[PsychoFreak]

I am sort of "goth" and people immediatly think i love horror and bloody violence, which is true so i have nothing 2 complain about!:D

But yes it can put a negetive vibe on horror, personally i hate gothic horror and i am more into the now and old skoll horror:cool:

[PsychoFreak]

soz double post

plz delete!

[travis]

While the parallels between horror and goth culture are there, I dont think I would call them "hand-in-hand." I think that at most, goth culture and its influence on films could be considered a small sect of horror, but horror as a whole is much more diverse. It's very easy to be a fan of the horror genre without ever touching on "goth" horror, because the horror genre itself is so ambiguous.

[Corpse Candle]

What you have to know about goths is like ALL sub-cultures there exsists a part that is arrogent and vain I knew certian people who would love shitty weather and shy away from the sun.
They behaved like vampires (yeah fuck off) and hardly smiled pretneding all the while that they were better because they were what they called hardcore goths.

Bollocks if you like the gothic style you are still you but just dress diffrently and to a degree live a little different you still go to partys have friends from a wide range of backgrounds and lifestyles.

The only goths who hurt horror are the few who really beleive themselves to be the offspring of old nick and not their old man who a teddy boy or a hippy.
I am not denying that there is damage to horror from twat goths to horror but they are not THE goth culture only a self-indulgent I watch buffy too much crowd.

As a funny quoate from a gang of wannabies called the so solid crew we take an insight into what people think they know about thier nieghbours:
"Everyone always talks about why we talk about guns in our music but no one ever talks about why they always sing about devil worshiping in heavy metal".

Bullshit I think you will agree;)

[XCoRyX]

fake goth poser kids certainly put a hurting to it.

[MotorizedInstinct]

Pretentious, melodramatic goths make fools of themselves and become the image for some when they think of Horror fans. All these idiots should just join a cult and live in a shack somewhere drinking red Karo syrup and praying to Ann Rice and never be seen again.

[TATU]

I wouldn' be inclined to say that the goth culture hurts horror negatively simply because they are two seperate entities. Hollywood creates horror movies, but a messed up brain creates Goth kids. Satanists and Hollywood movie producers aren't the same thing (Usually...) and therefore shouldn't be compared.