Classic Elements
Posted in Posters on 04/19/2009 08:50 pm by admin
for movieexperts only: the history of the american horror classic – the difficulties in the Horrorgenres?
The US universal horror pictures from the 20´s, the 30´s and the 40´s have clearly inspired the modern horror nowadays….
In fact during the 60´s and 70´s the italian giallo and the british Hammer also have copied too much from these classic horror elements, which had been produced well in the States in the Postwar years.
The reason, I´m still asking for: The Hollywood have produced too many Horrorgenres, whose identifications are sometimes a bit not clear
today movies are mostly REMAKES from the past, cause the young directors often have no fresh inspirations anymore.
…over the years, since the early days of the silent film cinema, up to and including today’s spat of contemporary cinema, horror films sub-genres have seeing more than it’s share of progressive ‘blurring’, from genre to genre, to a point where it DOES become difficult to pare the overall horror genre, down to it’s bare-bones basics; however, once one scrutinizes, and takes a much closer look at this progression, two observations become perfectly clear: the reflection of the fears of human society, coupled with human inventiveness & technology, both in behind-the-scenes special effects filmmaking, and as associated with the overall advancements in historical science and technology (…industrialization, the atomic bomb, laser beams, the Cold War, etc.), as well as the varied filmmakers penchance to push the theshold…the shock factor…the ‘gag’ factor…the ‘gore’ factor…even the taboo factor, if anything, to underliningly, even unconsciously test one’s fears, and ability to handle the shocking imagery. As far as the horror film genre goes, with respects to what the viewing audiences have progressively been able to handle, as the years have gone on, it very much reflects the contemporary addage, as stipulated by ‘king of all media’ himself, Howard Stern, who has often said, “…you may like me, or you may not like me, but either way, you continue to listen to what I have to say, or to watch what I do, because you want to know what I’m going to say, or what I’m going to do next”; the same can be said about horror films, over the years….
…with specific genres, it HAS become difficult, at times, what could be considered ‘true’ horror, over the years, as the very definition of the term itself, has blurred, from genre to genre; in the ’30′s and ’40′s, sprinkled about the classic golden age of monsters, were varied mystery thrillers, which assumed certain horror elements. The ’50′s gave birth to the sci-fi genre, which reflected the ‘horrors’ of reckless scientific experimentation, and the paranoid ‘nuclear’ age. Italian ‘giallo’ films, which saw production in the late ’60′s, and on through the early ’80′s (…which in turn, inspired the almost countless notorious ‘splatter/slasher’ films, produced in the States), reflected a melding of intricate and tension-filled mystery & suspense, with uncompromising, unapologetic and gruesomely shocking & visceral imagery….basically, ‘horror’ for the viewing audiences, who sought to ‘make it real’. Then, of course, there’s the recent trend of ‘horror’ films, affectionately coined as ‘torture porn’ horror, and includes such films as “Hostel”, “Saw”, “Touristas”, and their progressively associated sequels and copycats…
…with the advent of recent remakes of now-classic horror films, it is INDEED unfortunate that the driving force, at least these days, is to cash in on something that’s already been done, under the guise of trying to ‘re-invent’ or ‘freshen up’ what has already proven to be effectively chilling and horrific, in it’s original incarnation. A good example is the recent report of the intent to remake Euro-director Dario Argento’s now-classic “Suspiria”; in this viewer’s opinion, it was primarily Dario Argento’s incomperable filming style that made the original 1977 horror chiller, “Suspiria” such a great viewing experience, and one would be extremely hard-pressed to imagine anyone but Argento himself, in coming up with something comperable to the original, let alone better…
…as the old saying goes, “…if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!!!”
…however, be patient, and don’t sell the horror genre short, as yet, with regards to a sense of originality and imagination; it always seems that when folks succumb to the realization that there’s no originality or creativeness in the horror genre, some bright, new and imaginative talent emerges, with something we’ve never seen before; as an aspiring and open-minded writer, myself, I have often taken many an opportunity to examine the possibilities of something wholly new and original….and I assure you that something like that is just around the corner….but I ain’t tellin’ anyone, yet!!!
John Lasseter on ‘The Princess and the Frog’
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