Diversity is crucial: your blog
about horror films is great — but can you write about anything else?
On this episode, the GeekScholars host a spoiler - free discussion and review of Get Out, one of 2017's most - buzzed
about horror films (and rightfully so, it's fantastic) about a young black man who goes to meet his white girlfriend's family and the unusual encounters and events that occur.
Maybe we should do a feature
about horror films you didn't know were horror films.
If you're serious
about horror films, you'll be bored out of your mind, and if you're the kind of idiot who likes this sort of thing, you're not reading this, anyway.
After its festival premiere at Cannes and the Toronto International Film Festival, It Follows became one of the most buzzed
about horror films of 2014.
Horror director, Mick Garris did some fantastic interviews back in 2010 for his Post Mortem with Mick Garris show with Tobe Hooper to talk
about the horror films he created and what influences he brought with him during their creation.
Benny (Pauline Cousty) is an independent filmmaker, trying to make what she describes as a horror film
about horror films.
Through large chunks of this prequel, viewers bare witness to this gimmick far more than I can recall in just
about any horror film that I can think of.
This weekend sees the release of Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods, the most anticipated and buzzed -
about horror film in some time.
Not exact matches
With those two
films showing potential weaknesses, there is room for a surprise winner like Get Out, the
horror film about racism, or the coming - of - age LGBTQ romance Call Me By Your Name, among others.
This one will be hard to stomach if you actually watch it, but as one of the first ever «found - footage»
horror movies,
about a fictional documentary crew shooting a
film in the Amazon, it has been hugely influential.
At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and
horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live»
about aliens living incognito among humans.
Marketers promoting an R - rated
horror film, for instance, are far less skittish
about the content accompanying their ad than the marketer of baby shampoo.
All the statistics
about attendees indicate that
horror films are still solid date movies» and, in an American society where an ever - increasing percentage of young men and women are staying unmarried longer and having children later, the appeal of thrills that entertain without forcing one to think too hard is expanded to a larger market.
Jordan Peele's social thriller
about the literal
horrors of bodily racism is still one of 2017's most unforgettable
films.
I'm not sure there is anything creepier than children in
horror films, there is just something
about taking that innocence and turning them into something dark and sinister that doesn't sit well with...
That sounds like an intro to a
horror film, but think
about it: a whole human being is coming out of her body.
John Krasinski directs a spooky stunt of a
horror film about alien beasties who will only attack you if you make a sound.
We talked
about some of the behind - the - scenes of JvM, the upcoming apocalyptic
film festival, End of Days, the overall state of
horror films, and a whole lot more.
When most people think
about horror movies these days they think
about the traditional slasher
film or the recent (and grotesquely named) «torture porn» genre.
It routinely ends up on just
about everyone's top
horror film list.
«The Vampire» is one of the best representatives of the European
horror films about vampires.
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about from watching to meany booth brothers documentaries of the unknown I also enjoy
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John Krasinski directs a spooky stunt of a
horror film about alien beasties who will only attack you if you make a sound.
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Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction /
horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing
films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a
film in which much of the suspense comes from learning
about the mysterious monster?
Toby Jones stars as a sound engineer who travels to Rome in 1976 to work on the post-production sound mix of The Equestrian Vortex, a
horror film about witchcraft set in an all - girl riding academy.
A lot of people have a phobia
about these creepy crawlies and of course it makes for engaging
horror films.
I have heard many say that this is one of the best
horror films in the last 10 years and I believe that they would be mostly right
about
What the
film does is reimagine other
horror films as meta - narratives, except in those cases, the characters never discover the truth
about the artifice of their world, as Marty does, just like another fool, Truman Burbank in Peter Weir's The Truman Show, a
horror film in its own right.
But after the first third — the
film is more than 3 hours long — Schindler begins to recognize the
horrors that are going on around him and feels compelled to do something
about it.
I enjoyed the
film as a
horror / comedy, but I can't give it one of my TOP ratings simply because I was in the mood to get scared tonight - and there's nothing particularly scary
about this
film.
I have heard many say that this is one of the best
horror films in the last 10 years and I believe that they would be mostly right
about that.
Glazer puts all this into scenes that play out like a classier version of a science - fiction /
horror film — one of those cheesy ones
about a monster in human form.
In reality, this movie is meta -
horror: it's a
horror film about why
horror films suck.
This is a gritting, depressing
film about the
horrors of the chain gang prison camps of the south in the early 20th century.
Any relief at the revelation that that violence is not going down in the
film's present - day reality, though, just as quickly gives way to the deeper
horror about what Moll and her community might be hiding from us.
However, Winchester falls flat as a boring
horror film that lacks in just
about every facet of filmmaking.
Under the Shadow is a chilling
film about the
horrors of war, the suppression of women under the guise of religion, superstition, and the supernatural.
But as with Hillcoat's subsequent
film The Road, neither the script nor the direction allow a genuine sense of
horror to build, and it becomes more
about the journey itself than the meaning behind it.
The movie is
about a group of friends, apparently brothers and sisters as well, who are
filming a
horror movie
about a zombie with jaundice or something like that.
Far be it from me to expect any sort of cerebral experience from a slasher
about a doll, but it's evident that a degree of thought DID go into this, which makes its overall failure as a
horror film all the more disappointing.
A serious, large - budget treatment of Rabe's exploits and a moving, terrific
film about trying to maintain one's decency amidst
horrors.
Helming solid
horror flicks like Hush and Ouija: Origin of Evil, I knew that this
film was in good hands, even though I truthfully didn't know much
about it when going in.
Very heavily influenced by «Don't Look Now» and
about as gory as any slasher
film, «Alice, Sweet Alice» is one of the lost gems of seventies»
horror.
The lack of originality is what makes this
film not worth seeing, and the
film's script is poorly written as if the filmmakers didn't care
about turning out a good
horror film.
... different from the usual
horror film about a little house lost in the forest.
It is kind of packaged as a
horror film, but there is nothing
about it that is scary or seems to try to be scary.
It's
about the feeling of Rocky
Horror and, as the
film took on this cult second life, the audience who is feeling it.