What happened to the
horror genre?
Information:
Chas Balun – Horror
Holocaust
It’s harder to be creative/different – almost everything has
been done.
Rely heavily on cgi/jumpscares – trying too hard to be
scary. There’s something endearing seeing puppets being used.
Continue to do remakes that are guaranteed to do well at box
office (Ring, Blair Witch, Nightmare on Elm Street- hired new actor to play
Freddy- loses connection with audiences that grew up with the franchise etc)
The horror genre is one of the easiest ways to break into
the filming industry and it will always (show examples from box office) do well
– horror fans are just simply happy to see horror films at the cinema.
Discuss the idea
that it is a dying genre!
Chas Balun- “It seems as though no one has had made such of
an original idea regarding new wave scares since Wes Cravens electrifying 1983
entry”
NOTM 2010- is it a sequel or a remake of the original 1984?
Quite a lot of modern horrors rely heavily on the ‘something
scary happens to the young child/children’ idea. Also found footage and
possession are common concepts.
Older trailers- voiceover explaining everything
Newer trailers- barely any have a voiceover- no explanation,
rely on captions.
NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN MODERN FILMS! You’re meant to
connect with the characters and be upset when they are killed. Nowadays there
is barely any context and no character depth = do not miss/care for the
characters that are killed.
Finally, we can also observe the overwhelming saturation of
the horror market with the countless direct to video slasher flicks made during
the mid ‘80s, as well as the horror renaissance of the ‘90s heralded by Scream
(Wes Craven, 1996). (http://www.popmatters.com/column/horror-cinema-by-the-numbers/)
Music:
Modern horror trailers/films – heavy bass style, tempo
quickens during jumpscare moments = predictable, overdone = no suspense.
Get people’s opinions on modern horror and pre-millennium
horror
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