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Looking back at the past twelve months, it's astonishing just how good horror cinema has been.
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M. Night created one of the best horror films in the history of cinema in 1999 with The Sixth Sense but he also created The Happening.
It's a playfully demented and dry evisceration of the tenuous hold that modern western civilization has on civility, walking a fine line between the best genre horror and the loftiest of intellectual indie cinema.
His feature debut, A Dark Song is somewhere in - between an ultra-involving parental drama, a 60s - style occult horror and an out - and - out black comedy, balancing the trio surprisingly well and delivering a thoroughly entertaining and refreshing new slice of British cult cinema.
One of the landmarks of silent cinema, this adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel was also the film that firmly cemented Lon Chaney's standing as a superstar as well as set the stage for Universal Pictures to continue producing definitive horror classics throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
Newcomers may also like this one for it's delivery of good scares and a decent story (something that is rare in most modern horror cinema).
Fans of well - acted period dramas and good gothic mysteries should consider tuning in but the film will be of particular interest to anyone curious about the origins of modern British horror cinema.
What I consider is one of the best horror films is Argento's Suspiria, he is really playing with cinema in a really joyful and amazing way.
Indeed, both Queirós, whose film There Was Once Brasilia won special mention in the festival's Signs of Life section, and the Brazilian directing team Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, whose socially driven horror movie Good Manners took home the Special Jury Prize, referenced Andrade as an ever - vital figure for today's Brazilian political cinema.
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.
Horror doesn't get much better than The Exorcist — it changed the very landscape of the genre, and in December of 1973 it shook the entire world of cinema.
Genre cinema, particularly science - fiction and horror, work best when they are reactionary allegories for society.
Kaneto Shindô's oeuvre is perhaps best known for outright horror tales like Onibaba and Kuroneko, but the complex textures of The Naked Island, a fascinating blend of documentary, silent cinema, and covert horror, cannily refute absolute categorization.
The good news for cinemas is that today's teens and twentysomethings watch horror on the big screen as well as on streams or downloads.
What made the original Jaws so effective was the vision and talent of its prodigious director, Steven Spielberg, who utilized his fantastic skills and eye for cinema to create one of the best horror - adventure films of all - time.
Contemporary cinema may be deep into a phase of emphasising western - like aspects in everything from horror to action movies, and fashioning revisionist takes as well; however, at the heart of this fascination sits the timelessness of the genre's core elements.
Some of what Ghost Stories does may well hark back to the pantheon of horror cinema, but so does most horror.
Anyone with a passing familiarity with modern Austrian cinema outside of Michael Haneke «s work will not be surprised that arthouse horror «Goodnight Mommy» is produced by Ulrich Seidl, whose own «Paradise» trilogy, as well as 2015's terrific, underseen semi-doc «In The Basement,» share a certain chilly formalist distance with Fiala and Franz» movie.
The finale is intense and gross, but that potato sack scene is executed so well and catches you so off - guard... it goes down as one of the truly creepiest moments of horror cinema for me; and I'm pretty confident saying many horror fans would agree with me.
But, at its best, horror cinema is rarely about the gratuitous presentation of violent acts.
The first (and probably the best) horror film from master Mario Bava works as both an homage to the Universal monster classics and an early harbinger of the graphic violence that would eventually become a large part of Italian horror cinema.
The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players, until the true story starts to unfold, creates an unsettling feeling of dread absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, diminishing the emphasis on narrative and suspense.
The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players until the true story starts to unfold creates an unsettling feeling of dread, absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, weakening the emphasis on narrative and suspense.
Set at the historic Stanley Hotel, inspiration for Stephen King's The Shining, the Stanley Film Festival, showcases the best in classic and contemporary horror cinema in beautiful Estes Park, Colorado.
Known for its piercing theme tune and ominous introductory monologues, as well as some truly creepy storylines, The Twilight Zone originally ran for five seasons between 1959 and 1964, but has had a lasting impact on both television and cinema across sci - fi, fantasy and horror, inspiring everything from Mars Attacks!
In a mere 90 minutes this horror film (pun intended) casts serious aspersions on the integrity and social responsibility of its Pittsburgh - based makers, the film industry as a whole and [exhibitors] who book [the picture], as well as raising doubts about the future of the regional cinema movement and about the moral health of filmgoers who cheerfully opt for this unrelieved orgy of sadism.»
This, combined with constant inspiration drawn from classical comic book imagery, pop art and American cinema (especially the horror genre), as well as the aesthetic of classic prints (Durer, Goya, Daumier, Kathe Kollwitz, etc.), creates Hancock's unique approach to collaged painting.
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