Christopher WaldeckMainstream critics don't understand horror films anymore
August 10th 2009 03:11
Most critics initially bash horror films nowadays as repulsive and cliche films in nature. While this tends to be true for most torture porn and japanese horror movie remakes it's not true for every horror film. In fact most of the horror films that are great are art house films sent straight to DVD and remain unseen by most mainstream film critics. The films that are sent straight to DVD are seen as better than half of the mainstream movies. These straight to DVD films are often the best horror films like Martyrs and Inside for instance, well they're straight to dvd in America where commercialism is appreciated over true art.
However, we have seen some decent horror films like The Uninvited and drag me to hell which were respectably good well drag Me to hell was amazing, but the Uninvited was impressive for a remake.
What I've seen that I've considered to be a fall is the originality of film is crumbling and unfortunately the ideas have hit the horror genre the hardest. The mindset of the world is also more practical than artistic. We consider anything that's not human or a simple ghost story to be cheesy and corny. However, we consider adaptations of old ideas to be gratifying and reasonable. Producers don't take chances anymore with new and original ideas, but rather they adapt old and overused ones that seem more practical and related to conservative fears. this is a smart business strategy considering the fact that it was during the most conservative time in our history where any new ideas not related to conservative fears were wiped away by mainstream film critics and film studios alike. They were all related to demonic possession which is religious fears. the only original work to use were the japanese remakes until they all started coming out the same and began to suck even more than expected. The films weren't allowed to stretch certain boundaries that they would've gotten away with in the eighties or the seventies.
Now were in a new vision era where it is time for the studios and producers to free the held back new theories and ideas. This could be the horror renaissance of the decade if Hollywood had the balls to pull it off. I just hope Hasbro doesn't make a horror toy and sell it to Speilberg and Michael bay.
Who thinks that the time is right for the horror renaissance to begin?
However, we have seen some decent horror films like The Uninvited and drag me to hell which were respectably good well drag Me to hell was amazing, but the Uninvited was impressive for a remake.
What I've seen that I've considered to be a fall is the originality of film is crumbling and unfortunately the ideas have hit the horror genre the hardest. The mindset of the world is also more practical than artistic. We consider anything that's not human or a simple ghost story to be cheesy and corny. However, we consider adaptations of old ideas to be gratifying and reasonable. Producers don't take chances anymore with new and original ideas, but rather they adapt old and overused ones that seem more practical and related to conservative fears. this is a smart business strategy considering the fact that it was during the most conservative time in our history where any new ideas not related to conservative fears were wiped away by mainstream film critics and film studios alike. They were all related to demonic possession which is religious fears. the only original work to use were the japanese remakes until they all started coming out the same and began to suck even more than expected. The films weren't allowed to stretch certain boundaries that they would've gotten away with in the eighties or the seventies.
Now were in a new vision era where it is time for the studios and producers to free the held back new theories and ideas. This could be the horror renaissance of the decade if Hollywood had the balls to pull it off. I just hope Hasbro doesn't make a horror toy and sell it to Speilberg and Michael bay.
Who thinks that the time is right for the horror renaissance to begin?
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