Montana Smith
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Rocket Surgeon said:Agreed, the only question is HOW graphic. I myself prefer suspense and menace to extreme bloodletting.
The main question proposed is "further" which I think is fine depending upon execution. Pun intended.
I can live with that. Some gore is just for the sake of gore, and as such it loses it's intended effect.
The old method of presenting an horrific moment off-screen or in shadows can be just as effective. An increase in horror would re-establish the idea that Indy occupies an adult world.
ROTLA gave us Toht with the hot poker, and later his implied threat to torture Marion for information. Then the destruction of the three main protagonists on screen.
TOD had obvious elements of horror, from human skins to heart-ripping and implied blood-drinking.
Was TLC low on horror? Donovan disintegrated like Christopher Lee's Hammer House Dracula. And Indy came face to face with the personification of evil itself in Berlin.
KOTCS didn't seem to have the same level of horror. It was muted. Even Dovchenko being carried away by the ants didn't really do it, though the concept was horrific enough.
TOD was a balance of wry humour, silliness and horror.
KOTCS was overbalanced on the side of humour and silliness. For #5 to redress that balance would require Indy going into horror, and maybe further than before in order to be taken seriously in today's market. Since it looks unlikely that Lucas wants to venture back into Indy's old territory, it is also unlikely that we'll see anything 'horrific'.