"Genre cinema" refers to films or movies that belong to a specific category or genre, such as action, romance, horror, sci-fi, comedy, etc. It is a way of classifying movies based on their common themes, styles, or storytelling techniques.
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of genre cinema or in the mood for something different then try catch it in cinemas.
Put simply,
genre cinema occupies precisely the sort of edge that festivals ought to be, and increasingly are, exploring.
It's a brutal, bitter, and cold - hearted piece
of genre cinema, and one that any new horror fan should experience at least once.
In genre cinema, you react with the body, and there's an interesting dimension to the identification you have with the protagonist at the moment.
Opening at a time when white supremacists have crashed the White House, Peele's clever, incisive foray
into genre cinema makes a point much more frightening than any jump scare or torture chamber: Being black in America is often its own horror movie.
«Cements Benson and Moorhead as two of the most daring and interesting voices working in
American genre cinema» — Norm Wilner, NOW Magazine
After turning the Korean thriller on its head with The Chaser and The Yellow Sea, director Na Hong - jin has reinvented himself again, aggressively pushing against the boundaries of
genre cinema with The Wailing.
Tim Lucas is a critic, screenwriter, and novelist, as well as the editor and copublisher of the award - winning Video Watchdog, a bimonthly consumer guide to cult and
genre cinema on DVD.
As ever, a ruthless refusal of the happy ending distinguishes South
Korean genre cinema from its saccharine Hollywood counterparts.
This little gem features American treasure and all -
around genre cinema maestro John Carpenter discussing his 1988 sci - fi / action / horror cult classic They Live, going into detail about such things as the conceptual ideas behind the movie's premise, his casting of professional wrestler «Rowdy» Roddy Piper as the protagonist, and the rebellious inspiration for the film's infamous fight scene between Piper and the great Keith David.
Finally, he's hosting AMC Visionaries: James Cameron's Story Of Science Fiction, where he speaks with other great names in
genre cinema like Ridley Scott and George Lucas.
Co-writer Eskil Vogt discusses
approaching genre cinema for the first time, depicting characters» interiority on screen, and his collaboration with director...
Spring's overall balance suggests that Benson and Moorhead are students of
Italian genre cinema and of human behavior; the film has insight and style to burn.
Larry Cohen (The Stuff, It's Alive) made an entire career out of that, sometimes plucking high -
concept genre cinema hooks off the covers of magazines while sitting in a lobby waiting to be called back for his own sales session with a producer.
This year's theme is all about cinema from South Asia, one of the most populous places on the Earth, filled to the brim with exciting and
unusual genre cinema.
The product of Gold Coast filmmaking siblings Paul and Ben China, the Screamfest - winning Crawl is the latest Australian attempt
at genre cinema, paying homage to the likes of the Coen brothers» Blood Simple and No Country for Old Men.
John Milius» pulp epic paved the way for the short - lived sword and sorcery revival that occurred in the 1980s, while simultaneously hinting at the rampaging masculinity that would come to dominate American
genre cinema throughout the decade.
Is Ben Wheatley, one of the best minds in off -
center genre cinema right now, preparing to launch himself into the mainstream?
Released in 2005, that weird transitional phase in
which genre cinema like this could still raise a semi-decent budget and was still shot on film, Neil Marshall's second film — The Descent — follows a group of female spelunkers, reuniting for another caving adventure following the death of Sarah's (Shauna Macdonald; our lead) husband and daughter in a car accident.
Tarantino calls Fair Game «a female Straw Dogs», introduces the idea of those special moments of
genre cinema where «you can't believe you're seeing what you're seeing», then cites the following sequence as an example of this concept: «after fucking the girl over like crazy, they strip her nude and they tie her to the front of their monster truck.
For Martin, situated as it still is in the world of narrative - based
commercial genre cinema, Passion forces us to ask challenge questions underscoring much of his book's subsequent argument and proposals:
Adrián García Bogliano, along with his brother Ramiro, have been leading the way in
Argentine genre cinema for the better part of a decade now, but this Mexican set tale of demonically possessed kiddos seems to be Bogliano's ticket into the stratosphere of contemporary world class horror directors.
It is perhaps this mindset that handicaps blockbusters and
genre cinema because they dominate at the box office.
Like his friends — and fellow Mexican émigrés — Alfonso Cuarón (director of Children Of Men and co-producer on Pan's Labyrinth) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, the forthcoming Babel), del Toro is committed to
recharging genre cinema with political conscience.
Old School Kung Fu Fest (OSKFF) is an annual celebration of classic kung - fu films, bringing back to the big screen the rarest, wildest, and most incredible martial arts, action, and
other genre cinema from the «60s, «70s, and «80s.
Starting on February 14 and running a full five days, Insólito, Peru's first and only festival entirely devoted to all
things genre cinema, opens shop in the...
Raw, a tasty treat for fans of intelligent and
visceral genre cinema, hits select American theaters on March 10.
Featuring interviews from some of the biggest names in
genre cinema including Joe Dante, Robert Forster and Fred Williamson, this documentary tells the story of one of the best and hardest working exploitation filmmakers.
Step forward producer Dave Alexander, who promises to share the most frightening tales of all in his upcoming documentary series, Untold Horror, which features a horde of
genre cinema heroes discussing the projects that never made it to the screen.
Consisting of predominately World and North American premieres, Fantastic Fest is ground zero for the absolute tops in
genre cinema pulling from all over the globe to bring together the best cinematic experiences around.
That careful balance which festivals ideally find between obscurity and popular appeal maps perfectly
onto genre cinema, which has a committed and expanding fanbase but is still all too easily dismissed and marginalised by the mainstream for being at best nerdy, at worst immoral and corrupting.
Kudos to English theatre director James Whale for highlighting this startling contradiction in a film with an incalculable influence on
subsequent genre cinema.
Yet every year since 2006, the GFF has also offered a festival within the festival, handing over the Glasgow Film Theatre's mighty Screen 1 to the people behind FrightFest for two - and - a-half days of
solid genre cinema.
Its kinship with
fictionalized genre cinema is furthered by the fact that the Autodefensas's militiamen engage in regular daylight - street shootouts with gunmen, while cartel drug cooks (in an anecdote that suggests a real - life Breaking Bad) confess they learned their trade from a father - son duo who'd been brought in from America by their bosses.
Creepy now - you - see - them - now - you - don't phantom kids, sudden noises, windows bursting open, thunderstorms, escalating parental panic, et al., arrive on cue, as if checked off a list of horror tropes (particularly as derived from recent
Spanish genre cinema).
Directors like Tsui Hark, John Woo, and Ann Hui, to name but a few, employed some charismatic actors, dazzling technique and an anything goes mentality to create a
daring genre cinema.
Perhaps, now that mainstream festivals regularly program
Asian genre cinema, FEFF is no longer unique and can afford to diversity.
The audience awards at FEFF 2015 confirmed South Korea cinema's status as the most consistent supplier of high
quality genre cinema in East Asia at the moment.