I think you did right by putting a PG-13 rating, because while conveying the meaning, you managed to keep the imagery on a very non-graphic level.
Graphic would have started to venture into zombie movies territory, I think, and that wasn't at all the mood we were going for.
The Patricia Cornwell thing is exactly what I'm talking about. When Kay Scarpetta describes corpses during autopsies it's fairly graphic of course, but it's not as horrifying as say, a passerby who happens to stumble upon the corpse. It's a clinical approach, so it deserves a lower rating
Yes - I tend to have a much easier time watching dead people get cut up in NCIS than I think I would watching something like the Saw movies, and Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornbwell are both less gross/disturbing than the Aliens!-inspired childbirth scene in Breaking Dawn. Oddly, I have a much higher threshold for blood and gore in print, though my threshold in movies is still pretty high. The one thing outside of a horror movie that was ever truly too much for me to the point that I actually couldn't watch was everything that's ever had spiders in it Romano getting his arm cut off by a helicopter tail roter on ER, and that's because I have RL fears of airplane propellers (I used to work at an airport. One of the pilots once hit a deer with his airplane while taxing down the runway. The color photographs of the results were the best argument for being very, very careful around propellers that I've ever seen).
My textual disgustingness threshold is the dead baby scene in The Monk, which has to be read to be properly experienced. Mere paraphrasing can't do William Lewis's description of the crawling maggots justice.
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Date: 2009-01-27 02:06 am (UTC)Graphic would have started to venture into zombie movies territory, I think, and that wasn't at all the mood we were going for.
The Patricia Cornwell thing is exactly what I'm talking about. When Kay Scarpetta describes corpses during autopsies it's fairly graphic of course, but it's not as horrifying as say, a passerby who happens to stumble upon the corpse. It's a clinical approach, so it deserves a lower rating
Yes - I tend to have a much easier time watching dead people get cut up in NCIS than I think I would watching something like the Saw movies, and Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornbwell are both less gross/disturbing than the Aliens!-inspired childbirth scene in Breaking Dawn. Oddly, I have a much higher threshold for blood and gore in print, though my threshold in movies is still pretty high. The one thing outside of a horror movie that was ever truly too much for me to the point that I actually couldn't watch was
everything that's ever had spiders in itRomano getting his arm cut off by a helicopter tail roter on ER, and that's because I have RL fears of airplane propellers (I used to work at an airport. One of the pilots once hit a deer with his airplane while taxing down the runway. The color photographs of the results were the best argument for being very, very careful around propellers that I've ever seen).My textual disgustingness threshold is the dead baby scene in The Monk, which has to be read to be properly experienced. Mere paraphrasing can't do William Lewis's description of the crawling maggots justice.