Trying to out-do the UYI tour, Axl?

If the band releases something in the year, I'll give them points for establishing themselves as a unit, since they're by now one of the finest live acts currently around.

But to counterbalance this tour thing, people should look no further than Dylan. Since the late 80's, he's been averaging on 100 shows a year (and still does it), which means there's a Dylan show on every third or fourth day of the year somewhere. And with Dylan, the audiences oft complain he's too unpredictable with his show.

It's a living, what can you say?

You raise a valid point monkey, as it's easy for casual concert-goers to forget the grim realities of consistent touring.

- the Duff blog

The Thing and The Fly are the only ones off the top of my hat which I see taking the original concept and expanding it to a more modern approach. This is muchly because the originals were made in the 1950s, whereas the latter-day versions came out in the 1980s. The generation gap therein boasted a more remarkable shift in content than what has been seen since; body-horror became more approved to audiences, who were ready and wililng sit through the gloopy sequences of man-beasts morphing from one thing to another. Both stories could be told with or without that strong visual presentation, which is why both the originals and the revisions served a purpose.

Personally, I see much less development in the horror medium following the reneissance of the 1970s/80s. The mainstream has gone increasingly to the direction of torture-porn, which I've always regarded as low-class as the reflex tactic utilized by jump scares. Maybe it's the karma of our era, with the US government (and, to be fair, most of their global allies) turning a blind eye towards torture in the 'war on terror', while military intelligence has been returning to methods condemned since the Spanish Inquisition.

The curious part is major film studios following suit, subjecting the audiences to the grim realities of the interrogation room. The foil-hat in me is saying this is all a big information campaign to subject and, effectively, numb the gen-pop towards the graphic nature of torture and human suffering it contains. And hey, as long as the act of torture is executed by social deviants and enemy combattants, it's alright to look at it, right?