Today I want to confront an issue that is particularly close to my heart: the horror film.
Yes, it will be another boring article that mortally bored evolution of this prolific genre. But I do not want to treat it as if it were a documentary, I'm not going to tell you, film after film, the history of horror, would be long and nerve-wracking for me too. What I want is for you to find out where this genre was born and where he now seems to be direct.
's start by saying that the first horror movies were born around the thirties, and at that time was not yet refined in the issues as it is today. So it is natural and almost obvious for us to think that the first film of this genre are those dedicated to the classic monsters of the literature of the period.
It is no coincidence that the first successful films were those from the more mundane titles like Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931) and The Mummy (1932).
is clear that these films were fully capable of frightening the young couples at the time, and with them the most brisk pioneering film buffs. They were creatures that were very popular imagination, aided also by the classical literature, and belonged to a world of "oddities" and "monstrosity" of the period such that the spectators were obliged to have fear. To this we must add the fact that it was of the first attempts to make scary movies and, as new, it is clear that they did effect.
The first evolution takes place in the fifties. The line of monsters is gradually overcome, despite the "monstrous" (yes, terrible pun) happened the same, and a new kind makes its way in the halls: science fiction. The end of the fifties is strongly influenced by the first sightings of UFOs and alien contact from the first meetings, and there is to say that Roswell, in all this, he gave a big hand.
Then you begin to see the first major productions, including I remember the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), which I think are among the pioneers (and works!) of their kind. A genre, science fiction, which has always been very successful in film, perhaps that is closely related to the same audience in some way: think Dracula or Frankenstein could be in the cinema, Well, it was absurd ... But the idea that extraterrestrials might come down to us - especially after the famous discovery dell'abusatissima Roswell - papabile was much more in terms of implementation.
then we are preparing for further change, which leads to the film noir and mystery. I think these films are considered more psychological thriller than real horror movie ... but so much so that they had the ability to petrify the viewer was impressive, and so I think that's why they are made to fall into this category. An example of this trend is undoubtedly Psycho (1960) and Hitchcock, the author, it is certainly the largest exponent. In this period it was necessary to terrorize the minds of viewers, rather than to take them due to fears of monsters and strange creatures of some kind, even to the optic of "cold war" that dawned on the world at that time.
One is the black sheep of the vintage cult movie Night of the Living Dead (1968), where George Romero stands as the pioneer of a genre that, in the years to follow, will make a fuss of unimaginable levels.
The next step takes us into a period of confusion, perhaps in part because of the many events that have rocked the company in that period. We pass on the kind occult-religious Omen - The Omen (1976) as "real" Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), in the wake of the war in Vietnam, the first film critics on the contemporary society of Cronemberg, until you get to Romero with his first sequel. In short, there were all the ingredients for a wide and varied genre from the perspective of communicative cues. The seventies were also the advent of the first and Stephen King film adaptations of his films as Carrie, Satan's gaze (1976) or the most famous Shining (1980). During the same period took hold some of the most important horror film legends such as Halloween (1978) and Alien (1979), the last of which was able to bring various kinds of monsters and the like science fiction, resulting in the perfect synergy that all we know, that allowed him to win numerous awards in many prestigious events.
The years that followed, however, were the kingdom of splatter films.
was the sub-genre that lent itself to being more common in VHS, because of its "easy" if we want to keep viewers glued to the video. And this is where you create some of the most famous of all productions time, as Friday 13 (1980), Nightmare on Elm night (1984) Child's Play or (1988). They are productions that at the time of their departure made a great success at the box office and critics, and even today remain deeply in the collective firm. The characters for which these films are remembered as nitadamente, are characterized by a characterization so strong that even now things like the famous clawed glove of Freddy Krueger in the public domain and are now popular tradition of horror cinema.
In the same period other products are destined to become a cult film of its kind, as The house (1981) and, again on the same line Ridgemont (1987). Unique, are among the pioneers of the splatter, and have the opportunity to be regarded as low-cost production (in the second case, very low). Although these traits derived from their perverse fascination.
We find ourselves then in the sequel of the saga and fair. The nineties are distinguished by this trait that, if for some it may be fascinating, for many it is just depressing: a sequel is often filmed in merely order to earn money, and not to "make movies". It is this spirit that makes this production so low that fans often can not help but be disappointed.
Also in this period ranges widely between the various sub-genres such as Splatter - The schizzacervelli (1992) for the splatter film, exactly, or Bram Stoker (1992 ) for the horror genre on monsters, we are also mindful Scream (1996) for the popular teen-marriage and death The Blair Witch Project (1999) for independent of the subgenus.
Let's finish well to the present day, where the horror is based primarily on a few themes, abusatissimi around which still managed to survive thanks to the spirit in which it is not known.
We have reached a point where you no longer have a bad first class to terrorize the public. A maniac with a knife or with a clawed glove is scary, yes, but leaves the time that is in this context of mass destruction today. So the problem is to look at other beaches, other places: the company. When the problem is only one individual, how much fear can do, it's easy to stop him. When but is all around us to be sick, well, is another story. On this line are based movies like Hostel (2005), but all those movies that are based on epidemics and viruses that cause physical changes and mutations in crature as Zombie. This is what terrifies the audience today. A spectator who has been pretending selective with regard to cinema, but after all that satisfied with cheap thrills with movies on themes already seen hundreds of times. How many films have you seen talking about Zombie? How many films on viral diseases uncontrollable? The lists are almost endless.
It is precisely at this point that I think. The real problem of the cinema horror is its repetitiveness and its generalization, but I will try to explain. The scope of the horror is so vast that it is now possible to place each paradoxically any production that is able to scuscitare just a thrill in the viewer. And too often we find films that define the film seems to me hard. We find that it is enough to unite the right "curve" (and I believe I have explained) a little 'blood and ready and you have served your movie collections billionaires. Or the alternative is to do a remake, a sequel or a prequel.
So we end up in the fall where I wanted, my reason to hate the contemporary horror movies: good ideas, you know, now scarce. Since the turn of the millennium so far - and I spent ten years - I have witnessed the decline of this genre in all its forms. Because now when a director does not know what to do comes up with the gimmick of doing a remake ( Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Omen ) where just more blood to enter the original film - or, hey! another previous remake - to sell crap to do. Others chose to resurrect the old landmarks of horror movies like vampires ( Van Helsing, Underworld ) or throw themselves on video games, often pulling out interesting films but no relevance to the game itself, or only minimally relevant ( Resident Evil , Silent Hill ).
Well, now is a bore. It's all predictable, all have seen and been through everything.
propinano I do not know what's the horror in the future but I have locked in a room ... and I have a premonition that it will be a tragedy for me deal with it, I could even scream like crazy out of my head encased in a cube ... to the point that I do not know if I want to (re) open the door.
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