He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence
on modern horror movies.
Not exact matches
This
movie was a great satire
on modern horror.
In «
Horror 101: The Exclusive Seminar» (10:27), director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell separately discuss their philosophies for the film, putting new spins
on the haunted house and possession genres and doing certain things differently from other
modern movies.
It's a surprisingly refreshing approach for a
modern horror film that helps us focus
on the core of the
movie — the bloodbath.
Shot
on 35 mm and in technicolor, a pastiche of «60s Russ - Meyer-esque B
horror movies, it challenges
modern conceptions of gender roles.
Though the «sex equals death» rule isn't as prominent in
modern horror movies that defy those decades - old tropes, «It Follows» is very much a retro homage to «70s and «80s genre classics, from the «Halloween» - esque synth score, to the striking similarities to «Nightmare
on Elm Street,» both in Jay's perpetual helplessness and the film's dreamlike atmosphere.
To watch a
modern horror movie is often to watch all the most interesting characters get killed while the boring, blank - slate protagonist goes
on to save the day.
You're deciding what
movie to see
on a Saturday night and wonder: What if someone took the suburban spookiness of many a Steven Spielberg or J.J. Abrams
movie and combined it with the captive - prisoner subgenre of the
modern horror film.
Numerous 21st - century
horror movies have worked hard to make
modern technology scary, but it took an egghead French auteur to craft a genuinely unnerving sequence centered
on texting.
Think Deus Ex mechanics mixed with the gore of a
modern horror movie and you have the principle of its early brawls - until things take an obscene turn with the more occult stuff later
on.