Film of horror

The film of horror is a cinematographic kind whose objective is to create the feeling of fear and anguish at the spectator. Among the most known films of horror, we find Frankenstein (of James Whale), Dracula (of Tod Browning), the Exorcist (of William Friedkin), Halloween (of John Carpenter), Friday the 13th (of Sean S. Cunningham) and Scream (of Wes Craven).

Foreword

Of no will find astonishing, even out-subject, the presence of certain films in this article. Indeed, of works such as King Kong or Godzilla are more readily regarded today as science fiction films or science fiction. It should not be forgotten that with the evolution of manners, the perception of the horror changed with the wire of the generations, and fatally made rock a film from one kind to another. Lastly, the horror is also business of personal sensitivity. So certain films such Friday the 13th or Massacre with the slicer do not suffer from discussion, other works like the Teeth of the sea , Délivrance or " Cannibal Holocaust " are more readily subjects to deposit, because of impact of film on the spectator.

History

Silent films

The cinematographic horror appears as of the beginnings of the cinema. One commonly regards Georges Méliès as the creator of the kind, with films such as the Manor of the Devil in 1896 and the Cursed Cave in 1898.

The kind truly will be launched thanks to the Cinéma German expressionnist with, for the most known, the Cabinet of Doctor Caligari ( Das Kabinett of Doktor Caligari , of Robert Wiene) and Golem ( Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam , of Carl Boese and Paul Wegener) in 1920. It is into 1922 that leaves Nosferatu the vampire ( Nosferatu, eine Symphonie of Grauens , F.W. Murnau), probably the most important work in the emergence of the kind. The particularly morbid environment of film and terrifying it service of max Schreck in the role of Nosferatu will have a considerable impact on the cinema of horror.

To the United States, Notre-Dame de Paris ( The Hunchback off Notre-Dame , of Wallace Worsley) leaves in 1923, and becomes the first important American film of the kind. In 1925, the Phantom of the Opera ( The Phantom off the Opera , of Rupert Julian), produced by Universal Pictures, precedes the importance of the studio in the rise of the cinema of horror during the years 1930. To note that these two films have as an main actor Lon Chaney, first star of the kind.

Also let us note that, during this period, a more graphic horror appeared with the turning of certain scenes, such decapitation in Intolérance of D.W. Griffith in 1916, or the famous scene of the eye sliced approximately plane in a Andalusian dog of Luis Buñuel in 1929. One can see there, in a direction, the distances ancestors of the gore.

Years 30-40

In 1931, Universal Pictures produces three capital films in the evolution of the cinema of horror: Dracula of Tod Browning (according to the Romance of Bram Stoker), Frankenstein of James Whale (according to the Romance of Mary Shelley) and Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde of Rouben Mamoulian (according to the Romance of Robert Louis Stevenson). The success of these three films pushes Universal to produce other films of monsters - that one will name the " Universal Monsters" - between 1932 and 1948, some are the traditional ones today, such as the Mummy ( The Mummy - 1932) of Karl Freund, the invisible Man ( The Invisible Man - 1933) of James Whale (according to the Romance of Herbert George Wells), and especially Been engaged of Frankenstein ( The Bride off Frankenstein - 1935) same realizer.

In 1932 Doctor X leaves Michael Curtiz, first film of horror colors, and Huntings of the count Zaroff ( The Most Dangerous Game ) of Ernest B. Schoedsack (Co-realized by Irving Pichel), first film of the sub-genus called Survival. The following year, we find Curtiz with the orders of Masques of Wax ( Mystery off the Wax Museum ), and Schoedsack with the realization of King Kong (Co-realized by Merian C. Cooper). Two films which will meet an enormous success and remain still today traditional cinema.

During the years 1940, RKO Pictures - already at the origin of the Huntings of the count Zaroff and King Kong - product number of series B horrific, of which three will become traditional kind: Cat-like the ( Cat People - 1942) of Jacques Tourneur, Voodoo ( I Walked with has Zombie - 1943) same realizer and the Recuperator of Corpses ( The Body Snatcher - 1945) of Robert Wise.

The Fifties

With the Cold war, the Maccarthisme, the fear of the nuclear power and experiments scientific, years 1950 will see the appearance of the horror in the cinema of science fiction. the Thing of another World ( The Thing from another World of Christian Nyby according to the news of John W. Campbell - 1951) and the Invasion of the Profaners of Burials ( Invasion off the Body Snatchers of Gift Siegel according to the Romance of Jack Finney - 1956) are lampoons anticommunists, Monsters Attack the City ( Them! of Douglas Gordon - 1954) and Godzilla ( Gojira of Ishirō Honda - 1954) see animals transferred under the effect of nuclear radiations, the Black Fly ( The Fly of Kurt Neumann according to the news of George Langelaan - 1958) watch a scientist disfigured by a missed experiment,…

It is into 1957 that the Hammer Film Productions produces its first horror film: Frankenstein is Echappé ( The Curse off Frankenstein ) of Terence Fisher. The success of film, like that of the Nightmare of Dracula ( Horror off Dracula , always of Fisher) in 1958, leads the English firm to seriously being invested in the kind ( the Dog of Baskerville ( The Hound off the Baskervilles ) and Curse of the Pharaons ( The Mummy ) in 1959 of Terence Fisher). The Hammer will reign on the Gothic horror during the every years 1960.

Lastly, two traditional of the kind will be produced in France: Diabolic the of Henri-Georges Clouzot in 1955 and Eyes without Face of Georges Franju in 1959.

The Sixties

After having made several films for the studio International American Pictures (A.I.P.) - of which mythical the the Small Shop of the Horrors ( The Little Shop off Horrors - 1960) -, Roger Corman proposes to the leaders of the firm an adaptation of the news of Edgar Allan Poe, " The Fall of the Usher" House;. In spite of the reserves, Corman holds good and turns its film, which leaves in 1960. Success being with go, it will carry out several other adaptations of the writer, of which the Room of Tortures ( The Pit and the Pendulum - 1961), the Corbel ( The Raven - 1963) or the Mask of Red Death ( The Masque off the Red Death - 1964) for most famous. In parallel, in England, the Hammer leaves plethora films. One will retain especially the Mistresses of Dracula ( The Brides off Dracula - 1960), the Night of the Werewolf ( The Curse off the Werewolf - 1961), Gorgone ( The Gorgon - 1964) and Dracula, prince of darkness ( Dracula, Prince off Darkness - 1966), all carried out by Terence Fisher. In Italy, Mario Bava realizes in 1960 its first film of horror, the Mask of the Demon ( Maschera del Demonio ), which will meet an international success. It will turn then certain great classics of the horror to Italian, of which Three Faces of the Fear ( I Tre Volti della Paura - 1963), the Body and the Whip ( Frusta E it Corpo - 1963) or Opération Fear ( Operazione Paura - 1966). The Gothic horror is then with its apogee, then will collapse during the years 1970.

It is into 1960 that two films leave which will revolutionize in-depth kind: Psychosis ( Psycho ) of Alfred Hitchcock and the Peeping Tom ( Peeping Tom ) of Michael Powell. The horror is anchored in reality, is freed from its fantastic aspect. The monsters are human the psychologically unstable ones there, appeasing their nevrotic impulses in the murder. In 1963, Hitchcock persists in realism with the Birds ( The Birds ), where the Gothic monsters are this time replaced by clouds of birds.

The same year, Mario Bava poses to the bases of the Giallo with the Girl who Knew of it too ( Ragazza che Sapeva troppo ). It will turn the first great classic of this kind in 1964 with Six women for the assassin ( Sei gives per the assassino ).

Always in 1963, Herschell Gordon Lewis carries out with Blood Feast the first film gore (or " splatters" for the Anglo-Saxons), kind which will have fundamental effects on the cinema of horror. The worst atrocities are then exposed to the spectator, of trepanation to the evisceration, while passing by the enucleation, sticking and other jokes. Lewis will turn ten films gores in years 1960 and 70, in particular 2000 Maniacs! in 1964.

In 1968 a major work for the cinema leaves terror - to see even the cinema as a whole: the Night of Death-Alive the ( Night off the Living room Dead , of George A. Romero). Of a total pessimism, strewn with scenes all the more testing that they are treated with a great realism, the film will be a shock and will mark the spirits durably. Beyond that, the Night of Death-Alive the is a political and social work, carrying a glance without concession on the company of its time.

The same year, Roman Polanski carries out Rosemary' S Baby (according to the novel of Ira Levin), which sees the religion used as horrific element. Strong of the success of film, large the majors, who start with seriously being interested in the kind, will on several occasions réemploieront the religion - primarily principles of Christianity - during the years 1970.

The Seventies

In 1970, Dario Argento carries out its first film with the Bird with the Crystal Plumage ( Uccello paves Piume di Cristallo - according to the novel " the Beautiful one and the Animal " of Fredric Brown), one of most important the gialli. It will continue the exploration of the kind with the Cat-o'-nine-tails ( It Gatto has Nove Code - 1971), Four Flies of Gray Velvet ( 4 mosche di velluto grigio - 1972), and especially the Shivers of the Anguish ( Profondo Rosso - 1975). Other realizers will deliver excellent opus, of which Sergio Martino with the Tail of the Scorpion ( Coded It dello Scorpione - 1971) and Torso ( I Corpi Presentano Tracce di Violenza Carnale - 1973), Lucio Fulci with the Long Night of exorcism ( Non if Sevizia Paperino - 1972) and Immured Alive the ( Sette Note in Nero - 1977) or Mario Bava with the bloody Bay ( Reazione has Catena - 1971).

The first feature-length film of Wes Craven, the Last House on the Left ( Last House one the Left - 1972) is at the origin of the Rape and revenge. Sub-genus of film of horror, the Grater and revenge watch a woman to undergo sexual violences, followed revenge on this one against its attackers. Often obliging and always at the origin of surging debates as for the immorality of these works, the kind has its " all the same; classiques" such the Prey of Hitch-hiking ( Hitch-hiking Rosso Sangue , of Pasquale Festa Bell-tower - 1976) or Eye for eye ( Day off the Woman/I Spit one your Serious , of Meir Zarchi - 1978).

In 1973, probably inspired by the excellent results of Rosemary' S Baby , the Warner Bros. Pictures produced the Exorcist ( The Exorcist , according to the novel of William Peter Blatty), realized by William Friedkin. The film is a colossal success. So treating number of measurings of satanism will be born, of which the most popular remainder the Curse ( The Omen - 1976) of Richard Donner.

In 1974, Tobe Hooper carries out one of most mythical films of horror of the history of the cinema: Massacre with the Slicer ( The Texas Chainsaw Massacres ). In spite of a violence exploiting the suggestion more that on the demonstration, the film always trails a reputation of extremely bloody work, to see Gore. The fault with an atmosphere heavy and choking, and especially a setting in scene and an assembly particularly successful of Hooper. Massacre with the Slicer is also the leader of the Survival, sub-genus of the cinema of terror, whose Délivrance ( Deliverance of John Boorman) poses the bases since 1972. One will retain also the hill in eyes ( The Hills Have Eyes Wes Craven - 1977), worthy representing kind.

the Teeth of the Sea ( Jaws of Steven Spielberg, according to the novel of Peter Benchley) meets the success which one knows in 1975. Many substitutes putting in scene will be followed from there animals killers, of which one of more succeeded remains Piranhas ( Piranha - 1978) of Joe Dante, produced by Roger Corman.

In 1976, David Cronenberg carries out its first film of horror with Frissons ( Shivers ). At Cronenberg, the horror is visceral and sexual, the physical changes of its characters representing their disorders and neuroses. Rage ( Rabid - 1977) and Chromosome 3 ( The Brood - 1979) is two other works of sound " triptych médical" started by Shivers . The same year, Brian de Palma adapts the novel of a young writer then unknown: Carrie of Stephen King.

The Slasher is born in 1978 following Halloween from John Carpenter. This sub-genus puts in scene a masked killer using of the knives and tracking mainly teenagers. It is generally overcome by a female protagonist, called " final girl". The Slasher will generate a great number of cinematographic works during the years 1980. The same year, George A. Romero, in partnership with Dario Argento - which carries out the previous year sublimates it Suspiria - gives one following the Night of Death-Alive the with Zombie ( Dawn off the Dead ). The film of Romero guard the social aspect of the Night of Death-Alive the with its criticism of the consumer society, but is also a particularly effective action film and extremely gore.

In answer to the success of Zombie , Lucio Fulci carries out the gorissime the Hell of Zombies ( Zombi 2 - 1979), first film of its trilogy of death-alive, with Frayeurs ( Paura nella Città dei Morti Viventi - 1980) and Beyond the ( E you Will live nel Terrore! Aldilà - 1981.). Bringing to the kind a very personal sensitivity and a higher bid in graphic violence, Fulci insufflates with its trilogy of death-alive at the same time macabre and poetic atmosphere, very far away from the critical vision of George Romero, where the camera scans with more close torture and the degeneration of the flesh (recurrent theme within the Italian cinema, in particular at Pasolini). The Italian producers will engulf themselves in the breach and produirent many films of death-alive during the years 1980, for the rather poor majority of quality.

The Eighties

For surfer on the success of Halloween , Sean S. Cunningham - producer of the Last House on the Left - carries out Friday the 13th ( Friday the 13th - 1980), another fundamental work of the Slasher. He thus gives rise to the character of Jason Voorhees, one of the mythical figures of the cinema of horror. Another traditional of the kind, but with more fantastic tendency, the Claws of the Night ( has Nightmare one Elm Street of Wes Craven) leaves in 1984 and sees the first appearance of Freddy Krueger.

In 1980 Cannibal Holocaust leaves Ruggero Deodato. The film is divided into two parts: the first sees a professor leaving to research young journalists missing in a forest from South America. It will find the reels turned by the reporters. The second is not other than the diffusion of the aforesaid reels. Produced camera with the shoulder in a documentary style, this part of film will create a scandal, Deodato implying that the shown atrocities are not put there in scene, but quite real. It will have to prove near a court which the actors of its film are indeed alive. Although it is not the first of the kind - it is commonly allowed that With the country of exorcism ( It Paese LED sesso Selvaggio of Umberto Lenzi - 1973) is the instigator - the production of films of cannibals increases in Italy after the exit of Cannibal Holocaust .

The same year, William Lustig carries out with Maniac one of films more worship of the kind. Taken along by a Joe Spinnell incredible in the role of the psychopathe Frank Zito, Maniac is a glaucous and unhealthy work, with the effects particularly sordid Gore of Tom Savini - already at the origin of the special effects of Zombie and Friday the 13th .

Always in 1980, Joe Dante revolutionizes the topic of the werewolf with Hurlements ( The Howling ). The central figure does not carry any more his Lycanthropie like a curse, but saw it fully, with an unquestionable pleasure. The following year leaves the Werewolf London ( An American Werewolf in London of John Landis), on the subject closer to the initial myth than film of Dante. The renewed interest for films of werewolf will be at the origin of another success of the kind: Wolfen (1981) of Michael Wadleigh (according to the novel of Whitley Strieber).

In 1981 Evil Dead leaves. Not having however any interest for the kind, Sam Raimi pushes with their paroxysm the strings of the horror, by adding to it a style close to the cartoon and an amount of humor Slapstick. It results a particularly effective work from it, leaving little idle period to the spectator. Raimi will take two actions pursuant to its film with Evil Dead II ( Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn - 1987) and the Army of Darkness ( Army off Darkness - 1992).

Into full apogee during the years 1970, the Giallo disappears in the years 1980. Three successes will ring the knell of them: the return of Dario Argento to the kind with Darkness ( Tenebrae - 1982), the gorissime Eventreur of New York ( Lo Squartatore di New York - 1982) of Lucio Fulci and a mixture successful between the Giallo and the Slasher with Bloody Bird ( Deliria - 1987) of Michele Soavi.

After its collaboration with Stephen King for Creepshow (1982), George A. Romero adds a opus to its series of death-alive with the Day of Death-Alive the ( Day off the Dead - 1985). After the consumer society in Zombie , militarism and the scientific blindness become the topics targeted by Romero.

After Scanners (1981) having for topic the capacities parapsychologic, Videodrome (1983) and its critic of the capacity of the televisual media, and an adaptation of Stephen King with Dead Zone (1983), David Cronenberg realizes sublimates it the Fly ( The Fly , remake of the Black Fly ) in 1986. Beyond the topic of the physical and psychological change expensive to the realizer, the film is also the tragic history of the love vis-a-vis the disease. Some will see in the Fly an allegory on the AIDS, remarks contradicted by Cronenberg.

In 1985 with Underworld and in 1986 with Rawhead Rex , George Pavlou adapts two news of Clive Barker, new genius of the fantastic literature. Than mitigated more vis-a-vis the result, Barker takes the problem with arm the body and carries out Hellraiser (according to its novel " The Hellbound Heart ") in 1987. Joining again with a typical Gothic environment of the cinema of English terror of the years 1960, the author insufflates more modern elements there the such Coenobites, demons with the gay and sadomasochistic imagery. Most known of them is not other than Pinhead, today an icon of the cinema of horror.

The Nineties

Extremely success of sound Hellraiser , Barker is seen entrusting an important budget by Morgan Creek Productions for the realization of its new film, Cabal ( Nightbreed - 1990). Too much violates and too tortured, the studio and MPAA oblige the realizer to turn over several scenes to avoid a classification X. Cabal leave in the indifference and will be a resounding failure.

In 1992, always adapted Cleaves Barker, Bernard Pink carries out Candyman , one of films of horror more succeeded of the years 1990. Candyman, probably one of the monsters most touching of the cinema of terror, is an allegory of the legends and fear being born in an urban environment.

The same year, Peter Jackson carries out film more Gore of the history of the cinema with Braindead . Jackson is not with its first attempt, having carried out Bad Taste - a comedy gore - in 1987 and Feebles ( Meet the Feebles ) - a parody trash of the Muppet Show - in 1989. Following the example Bad Taste , Braindead is before a a whole comedy using the Gore like comic element. Although extremely bloody, the film never creates the fear or the dislike. But force is to note that Braindead is a great success.

In 1994, Michele Soavi turns the song of the swan of film of horror to Italian with Dellamorte Dellamore (according to the novel of Tiziano Scalvi). If the film contains many horrific elements and scenes, it is before a a whole eminently poetic work, punctuated of many humorous scenes.

After the traditional ones that are The Thing (1982 - remake of the Thing of another World ) and Prince of darkness ( Prince off Darkness - 1987), John Carpenter gives an end to its " trilogy of Apocalypse" with its masterpiece the Cave of the Madness ( In the Mouth off Madness - 1995). Near to the writings of Lovecraft, the film rocks in a dimension where the space-time reference marks disappeared, supporting the appearance of mythological creatures and plunging its hero in the meanders of the madness.

When Scream in 1996 leaves, the horror is a kind in serious lose speed. If years 1970 and 80 were prolix as well in masterpieces as in failures, this first half of the years 1990 leaves the aficionados on its hunger. Large the majors being moved away from the kind, the production seriously fell, primarily leaving with the studios independent the reins of terror. Excellent films of course were born, such those quoted above. The enormous success of Scream (of Wes Craven) thus lets hope for a revival of the kind, which will be indeed the case, but not way awaited. The film will start again above all the Slasher, but aiming at an adolescent public with an attenuated violence and a second degree of most badly come, such Souviens… Last Summer ( I Know what you Did last Summer of Jim Gillespie - 1997) or Urban legend (of Jamie Blanks - 1998).

In 1998 Ring leaves ( Ringu of Hideo Nakata), which makes a paperboard with the boxoffice. Even if the film is closer to the fantastic thriller than film of horror, it all the same will popularize the Asian cinema of terror, primarily in Europe.

In 1999, the Project Blair Witch ( The Blair Witch Project of Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez) becomes the most profitable film of the history, thanks to a promotion identical to that of Cannibal Holocaust . Always following the example Cannibal Holocaust , the Project Blair Witch is a work supposedly amateur, showing the death of three students in cinema left to turn a report in forest.

The years 2000

After a wave of slashers post- Scream which aimed mainly an adolescent public (see the Nineties ), years 2000 mark a return to films of horror plus violent one, less " second degré" , and resolutely more adult, pointing out the visual crudeness of films of the Seventies and at the beginning of 80' S.

It is in Spain that the cinema of terror seems to find the promised land of its rebirth. The studio of production Fantastic Factory is born under the impulse from Brian Yuzna, and leaves three films in 2001: unequal the Faust ( Faust: Coil off the Damned Brian Yuzna), the bad Arachnid (of Jack Sholder) and definitely more made a success of Dagon (of Stuart Gordon, according to a news of H.P. Lovecraft). Unfortunately, only Dagon car its pin of the play, following productions of the proving studio of rather poor quality.

Always in 2001, in the United States this time, Victor Salva carries out Jeepers Creepers . If the first part of film is a great success, with its continuation paying homage to the Duel of Steven Spielberg and the discovery of the monster and of its misdeeds, the dark second part in the various stereotypes of the horror. Jeepers Creepers will be a success with the boxoffice all the same.

The turning of 2002-2003

2002 will see the alarm clock of the Cinéma of kind, and more particularly of horror, the side of the Great Britain with the exit of 28 Days later , of Danny Boyle, and Dog Soldiers , of Neil Marshall.

In 2003 the remake leaves Massacre to the Slicer ( The Texas Chainsaw Massacre of Marcus Nispel). The advertisement of the project is particularly badly accommodated, the name of the producer - Michael Bay - letting predict a film for teenagers. Massacre with the Slicer proves to be an adult work, with dry and wild violence. Its success will involve the fashion, in large the majors, of the remake of traditional of the cinema of horror.

Still in 2003 and always to the United States, the rockstar Rob Zombie finally will see leaving its first film: the House of the 1000 dead ( The house off 1000 Corpses ). The universe of its music was very openly inspired horrific cinema (see the video clip of its song Dead Girl '', whose decorations take again those of German film the Cabinet of Doctor Caligari ), are film thus made of many references, the crossbred whole of many effects clean to the musical clip (accelerations, Split-screen, " effect; négatif" …). This film represents today the first steps of a realizer headlight of this wave of toughening of film of horror of the years 2000.

The same year, in France, Alexandre Aja carries out High voltage (produced by Luc Besson). The film joins again with a typical Gore brutal and realistic of the years 1970-1980. In spite of a completely incoherent final twist, the film is a success, and Aja will be seen entrusting the realization of the remake of the hill has eyes ( The Hills Have Eyes ) in 2006.

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In 2004, Zack Snyder carries out the remake of the Zombie of George A. Romero, with the Army of Dead the ( Dawn off the Dead ). Exit the social satire of original work, the film of Snyder is centered primarily on an action quasi not-stop and scenes gores spectatculaires. Another basic difference, thealive ones are here particularly sharp, current and jumping, contrary to the zombies of Romero, slow and dangerous especially in group.

Always in 2004, two fan English servant boys (Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg) benefitting from the vagueness of the cinema of kind in Great Britain will carry out Shaun off the Dead (the realization being allotted to E. Wright, Simon Pegg playing in film at the sides of excellent the Nick Frost). Sometimes regarded wrongly as a Parody, Shaun off the Dead rather seems a humorous film having for backdrop an invasion " zombiesque" , and proves to be a respectful homage made to the kind. Contrary to Scary Movie - (2000), real Parody this time, which had rung the knell of the beachcomber of slashers post- Scream , Shaun off the Dead to little seem the emblême of the recognition of the large Masters of the kind (here Romero thus…) by the young realizers of this horrific new wave, whose works their very frequently refer.

The same year leaves Saw James Wan, thriller horrific with the unexpected success, whose main force remains the traps mortals tended by the killer - Jigsaw - all more original the ones than the others. He will know three continuations in 2005, 2006 and 2007, with the financial results more than honourable. And the saga should still continue a moment, at least until very awaited SAW VI. One does not say to you why.

The apogee of the years 2006-2007

After a film of wolves-garous ( Dog Soldiers - 2002), Neil Marshall attacks the Survival with The Descent (2005). Remarkable from share its claustrophobic atmosphere - the film is held in a cave - and the perfect control of the darkness, the film as will know success to him, as well public as critical. Always in Great Britain, the exit of Creep (2005), first film of Christopher Smith to honourable success, also testifies him to the vitality of the cinema of Britannique kind.

Australia will contribute to this horrific wave by proposing a Wolf Creek (2005 - of Greg McLean) with the quasi-documentary style and dry and realistic violence.

This same year, two realizers will sit their position of new “leaders” of the contemporary cinematographic horror. Indeed 2005 will see the production by the the United States of Hostel realized by Eli Roth, as well as The Devil' S Rejects carried out Rob Zombie. These two films will be those of maturity for these two realizers, Rob Zombie giving up the effects of clip of its Maison of the 1000 Dead to take a bloody and dusty action pursuant which are not without pointing out certain works of Sam Peckinpah, and Eli Roth to him delivering an original film to the history, after its very referential beginnings ( Cabin Fever in 2002, with the basic pitch very near to that of the Evil Dead of Sam Raimi).

In 2006, in addition to the exit through the rest of the world of 5 caused films, French Alexandre Aja, shouldered by his friend and Co-scenario writer Gregory Levasseur, will carry out the remake of film of Wes Craven: the hill has eyes ( The Hills Have Eyes - 1977). This version 2006 will be a great public and critical success.

The Asian wave of terror, success and limits of a phenomenon

From 2002 to 2006, the Asian horror engaged by Ring of Hideo Nakata in 1998 (and for which it will have taken several years before meeting a world success) goes to be the subject of many American remakes (The Ring in 2002 thus, The Grudge in 2004, Dark Water and Ring 2 in 2005,…), sometimes realized by the realizers of the original, guests to come to turn to the USA (Nakata Ring 2 in 2005 carried out, remake of its Japanese film éponyme of 1999; Takashi Shimizu made The Grudge in 2003, the remake of sound Ju one - 2000…).

The point of organ of this series of Asian films of phantoms will however not be a remake, but indeed splendid and disconcerting the Dark Water ( Honogurai Mizu No Soko Kara ) of Hideo Nakata, carried out in 2002, where terror leaves the place to an upsetting family drama. Nakata, which forever hidden its little of interest for the horrific kind, signs here a personal and succeeded work. Dark Water will be besides crowned Grand Prix of the Festival of Gerardmer 2003 and was the subject of a remake with Jennifer Connely in 2005.

Even if business success is (almost) always with go, the kind starts to be blown, and the Asian horror films shows their limits by their absence of renewal set of themes, to see visual (these films will be ironically called films of “girls to the dirty hair” by the specialized press, in reference to the figure of the phantom presented in Ring - (1998), and included in almost all the substitutes which rose from it, which is an young woman with the black hair, long and dirty which masks the face to him).

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The first half of this year 2007 proved calmer in terms of horrific production. One however notes the recent exit of French Inside , of Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, as well as the continuation of Hostel, always realized by Eli Roth and sobrement titrated Hostel - chapter 2.

To the USA must leave in August the awaited remake and already discussed traditional Halloween John Carpenter, put out of box by Rob Zombie which, by its brutal and realistic approach, hopes to insufflate a second breath with this frankness in serious lose speed following the resounding failure that at summer the last opus in date ( Halloween 8, resurrection ).

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