HORROR RESEARCH: JASON
HORROR
I picked to give some information about these three movies as they are three of my favorite horror films and all show different types of horror. So To begin my research I wanted to show some examples and just first of all establish what horror actually is.
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Produced by | Julio Fernández |
Written by | Jaume Balagueró Luis A. BerdejoPaco Plaza |
Starring | Manuela Velasco Ferrán Terraza Jorge-Yamam Serrano Pablo Rosso David Vert Vicente Gil Martha Carbonell Carlos Vicente María Teresa Ortega |
Box office | $32,492,948 |
REC (stylised as [●REC]) is a 2007 Spanish horror film co-written and co-directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza.
The film premiere was in August 2007 at the 64th Venice International Film Festival, out of competition. It was also shown in October at the Sitges Film Festival and at the Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema in November, before going on general release in Spain later that month. It was also shown in February 2008 at the Glasgow Film Festival and had a UK release in April.
It was released on DVD in North America in 2009.
REC received acclaim from most critics. As of May 17, 2009, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 96% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 20 reviews. Reviewing the film for the BBC, Jamie Russell called it "A runaway rollercoaster of a fright flick", praising the "faux-docu handheld style", and the sense of claustrophobia and confusion, claiming "[Rec] will definitely jangle the nerves", while criticising the lack of substance and "one-dimensional" supporting cast.
Bloody Disgusting gave the film four and a half stars out of five, with the reviewer saying, "[REC] has it all and is probably one of the best Spanish horror films in recent memory." Bloody Disgusting later ranked the film eleventh in their list of the 'Top 20 Horror Films of the Decade', with the article saying "Out of all the “shaky-cam” films... this one is arguably the best."
It also received a number of awards:
Goya Awards (22nd edition, 2008): Best New Actress (Manuela Velasco), Best Editing (David Gallart). Nomination: Best Special Effects (David Ambid, Enric Masip and Álex Villagrasa)
Fantasporto 2008: Best Film Prize
Fantastic'Arts festival of Gérardmer 2008: Jury Prize, Prize of the young Public, Prize of the Public
Festival de Cine de Sitges 2007 : Prize of the Public, Critics Prize, Best Director Award, Best Actress Award for Manuela Velasco.
Reaper Award 2009: best Indie/Foreign production
The sequel, REC 2, premiered in September 2009, at the Venice Film Festival, and was commercially released in Spain in October. The sequel deals with the events immediately following the end of the first film. Two more movies have been announced, [REC] Génesis and [REC] Apocalipsis', set to be released in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
I loved this film and found the handheld style make the story very authentic.
I mixed the handheld camera “found footage” style and mixed it extremely well with the sub-genre of Zombies to create a very original film.
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Produced by | Malek Akkad Rob Zombie Andy Gould |
Written by | Rob Zombie |
Based on | Characters byJohn Carpenter Debra Hill |
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Box office | $80,249,467 |
Halloween is a 2007 American slasher film written, directed, and produced by Rob Zombie. The film is a remake/reimagining of the 1978 horror film of the same name, the first in the rebooted Halloween film series and the ninth Halloween film in total.
Based on 107 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, Halloween received an average 24% overall approval rating, with the consensus "Rob Zombie doesn't bring many new ideas to the table in Halloween, making it another bloody disappointment for fans of the franchise." By comparison, Metacritic calculated a normalized score of 47 out of 100 from the 18 reviews it collected. CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade cinemagoers gave the film was "B-minus" on an A+ to F scale; it also reported that 62% of the audience was male, with 57% being 25 years or older.
I felt that the remake of the original Halloween was very credible and really showed the dark side of Michael well.
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Box office | $57,051,053 |
The descent turned out to be one of the most successful British horrors to date.
Filmmakers originally planned for the cast to be both male and female, but Neil Marshall's business partner realized that horror films almost never have all-female casts. Defying convention, Marshall cast all women into the role, and to avoid making them clichéd, he solicited basic advice from his female friends. He explained the difference, "The women discuss how they feel about the situation, which the soldiers in Dog Soldiers would never have done." He also gave the characters different accents to enable the audience to tell the difference between the women and to establish a more "cosmopolitan feel" than the British marketing of Dog Soldiers.
The Descent premiered at the Scottish horror film festival Dead by Dawn on 6 July 2005. The film commercially opened on 329 screens in the UK and received limited releases in other European countries, eventually earning more than £6 million in box office receipts. The London bombings in the same month was reported to have affected the box office performance of The Descent.
A very well shot horror which gives British filmmaking a good name as it is very rare to get a good horror come from Britain. Very scary and i enjoyed it a lot.
George a Romero
I chose to look at Romero because of what an influence he has been to horror in particular zombie films.
George Andrew Romero is an American film director, screenwriter, and editor best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed "Godfather of all Zombies."
Romero was born in New York City to a Cuban-born father of Castilian Spanish parentage and a Lithuanian-American mother. His father worked as a commercial artist. Romero attended Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating in 1960, he began his career shooting short films and commercials. One of his early commercial films, a segment for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in which Mr. Rogers underwent a tonsillectomy, inspired Romero to go into the horror film business. He, along with nine friends, formed Image Ten Productions in the late 1960s, and produced Night of the Living Dead (1968). The movie, directed by Romero and co-written with John A. Russo, became a cult classic and a defining moment for modern horror cinema.
Romero was born in New York City to a Cuban-born father of Castilian Spanish parentage and a Lithuanian-American mother. His father worked as a commercial artist. Romero attended Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating in 1960, he began his career shooting short films and commercials. One of his early commercial films, a segment for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in which Mr. Rogers underwent a tonsillectomy, inspired Romero to go into the horror film business. He, along with nine friends, formed Image Ten Productions in the late 1960s, and produced Night of the Living Dead (1968). The movie, directed by Romero and co-written with John A. Russo, became a cult classic and a defining moment for modern horror cinema.
Horror films
Horror films are unsettling movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres. Horrors also frequently overlap with the thriller genre
The term "horror movie" first appeared in the writings of critics and film industry commentators in response to the release of Universal's Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931), but has since been applied in retrospect to similar films from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Horror films deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden worst fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Although a good deal of it is about the supernatural, if some films contain a plot about morbidity, serial killers, a disease/virus outbreak and surrealism, they may be termed "horror."
Plots written within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world. Themes or elements often prevalent in typical horror films include ghosts, torture, gore, werewolves, ancient curses, Satanism, demons, vicious animals, vampires, cannibals, haunted houses, zombies and serial killers. Conversely, stories of the supernatural are not necessarily always a horror movie as well.
Early horror movies are largely based on classic literature of the gothic/horror genre, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. More recent horror films continue to exploit the monsters of literature.
Horror trailer
A common convention is the ever growing “found footage”. Apollo 18, Rec, and Paranormal activity use this model, but The Blair Witch Project was really the first of its kind. The now infamous trailer began with the subscript "In 1994 three student film makers disappeared in the woods near Burkitsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found." a few review quotes and that's it. That's the whole trailer. The audience knows something horrible happened to those kids, but you have to watch the movie to find out what.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZu1cTg-xUM
Some horror trailers ask a question. They set up a situation, and then leave the viewer wanting to know more. One of the best examples is the original 'Alien' (1979) trailer. The camera splices shots of the film with a long, slow pull back of a large, alien egg. The egg cracks, emitting an eerie glow there a few action shots but nothing too reveling and the trailer ends with the subscript "In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream." The trailer doesn't really tell us about the characters, doesn't establish much at all. All we know is something horrible is going to come out of that egg, something that makes people screams. We, the audience, want to know what's in that egg.
The music is also very effective in this trailer as it matches the eerie, scary feel of the visualshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oYNvmNZP2o
Some trailers like to let us know what is going to happen and what is going on. They want the audience to know that there is going to be gore and blood and what sort of torture is going to be used. ‘Splatter’ films use blood and extreme violence so like the films, the trailers don’t like to hold back as much as other horrors.
Films like saw, final destination and the devils rejects were famous for this. One film, hostel was famous for doing this and showed some of the torture being used in the film, in its trailer. Letting people know what they are coming to watch.
Films like saw, final destination and the devils rejects were famous for this. One film, hostel was famous for doing this and showed some of the torture being used in the film, in its trailer. Letting people know what they are coming to watch.
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