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It was a studio bandwagon mate.It kinda rolled on from the success of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS...Remember films like FALLEN,THE BONE COLLECTOR and COPYCAT? Now,these are no classics,but I was chuffed when studio produced films like URBAN LEGENDS,BRIDE OF CHUCKY,I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER and VALENTINE began spouting their heads.As I say,they may not have been classics,but they began to steer horror films back to their origins and away from the 'glitz' of big star casts and mediocre serial thrillers.......
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Yeah, there was a lot of jumping on the band wagon at that time.I'm just interested in why these films where made at that time as cinema screens seemed full with serial killers and destruction of the family/individual type films.I'm trying to think of the socio-economic climate of the time and did this effect the content of these films.
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Maybe America saw Saddam Hussein as the monster serial killer and had to put it/him to rights? Remember you had the James Bulger case as well.Perhaps studios felt it was safer to put Chucky,et al to rest for a while? Maybe put a more 'human face' on the monster?What do you all reckon? Why did the horror flick go towards the thriller chiller in the nineties?
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Investors are starting to look at Horror Game franchise's for big screen adaptations , ie Resi Evil, Silent Hill and are eagerly eyeing the new wave of horror games that are heading to our consoles and maybe a cinema then BluRay retailer near you very soon. Horror and Games seems to be very much in vogue at the moment . Film and Game colaborations in both directions makes perfect sense as both are the 2 top selling forms of Home Enterainment, I know Dead Space is to get the film treatment and SAW is getting a game release, so with an unexpected allie with Game's , then maybe more joint colaborations between Film makers and Game dev's may not just be enough to see horror survive in the world of Hi Def, but could supply film makers with enough fresh ideas that could , quite possibly, be the start of a 'NEW' Golden Age for Horror Film. My only worry is that as film playback for us fans gets more , clearer and detailed in this booming HD Era, that older films from the likes of Fulci, Franco, D' Amato etc, wont surive in the HD World and will disappear forever, with only their remakes left for future generations. |
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Mostpeople wont notice or care if the film sourced from a good master, only truly neck-bearded cinemaphiles will notice the difference and then they'd be too busy fretting about bitrates to notice what is actually going on with the visual quality. |
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I had "Hostel" and "Saw" pegged as responses to America's treatment of prisoners in the "war on terror".It's interesting to note that the present state of the world reflects that of the early 80s:war in Afghanistan,terrorist attacks on main land Britain and economic chaos.And the films we are getting at the moment:"Friday the 13th","My Bloody Valentine" etc...
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Yes, with all the remakes at the moment of genre classics, it's as though we have almost come full circle... Interesting points about Hostel and Saw MTDS, I'm just not convinced... What I see is man-made monsters torturing normal, relatable people (in the case of Hostel 'innocent' civilians - introducing a fear of unknown foreign locations, and the 'unusual' to the gore hungry masses, just as Texas Chain Saw Massacre introduced the fear of remote American towns; and in the case of Saw seemingly innocent people who had inner guilt or 'flaws', as seen by Jigsaw who were then exploited so they could be 'better people'- and again who are very relatable characters). In some ways I can see where you are coming from in some fashion where Hostel is concerned: The greedy rich paying huge amounts of money to satisfy their deep, dark desires to torture innocents, but to me there seems a bigger picture to the direction the genre is sliding toward. Great points though mate. |
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You may be right there - Shameless are looking at releasing a line of Post-Apocalypse films too... How uncanny! |
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