Should gore be used in the movies?

I recently watched the movie, "The Ruins", and needless to say it was a waste of time, with very little dialogue and lots of gory and bloody scenes. After watching that movie several issues started spinning through my head about what we have become as a society.

Movies like the The Ruins', the "Saw' series, Silent Hill', Son of Sam', Urban Legend', Hannibal' and others all have an effect on society. When you see things like this happening on screen, it makes you wonder how many other people have also thought about them prior to this movie.
There are so many sick people in the world today, who all have weird fetishes and sick desires. Should we as a society really be encouraging this? It is frightening to think that people actually enjoy gore. We have become so used to so much gore and barbarity on television that we have numbed our selves down, and become insensitive to the real issues at hand.


Why is there a need for this kind of genre? This is not a question for producers and directors but rather a question for society. Whatever happened to the old westerns, love stories, clever thrillers, fantasy films etc? As far as I am aware some of these genres still have immense potential, not to mention the string of comedies that come out year after year. So why then, the need for this particular genre?

Shouldn't parents be concerned about the well being of children? There is so much exposure today to such harmful ideas, especially through the media. Shouldn't that worry us enough, rather than to deal with more and more exposure of our children?

Sure these movies have ratings, children are not meant to see them. However what people overlook is the fact that children are not the only ones that can fall victim to such ideas. Even grow up people can be the victims of such movies. Look at pedophiles, serial killers and mass murderers. When people who have potential to turn into those monsters, come across information like this in movies is it not likely that they could be encouraged to act upon their inner suppressed urges of violence?

We should put an end to these sorts of movies. A little violence is essential to a particular plot of a story, but gore to the extent that some movies project is inexcusable. It is time that we as a society started taking these little things seriously in order to protect not only ourselves but our children as well.

I remember reading an article many years ago about a child who jumped out of a window thinking he could fly like superman. If a movie like Superman can induce such behavior, shouldn't we be worried about what effect movies like these can have?