Horror Movies

Why theory is omaybe my favourite podcast and I just had to share this. A very academic approach to their analysis and heavily focus on psychoanalysis.

Exploring the classical horror film in terms of the antagonism between life and the beyond, inclusive of death. They focus on the films The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Frankenstein, Invisible Man, Godzilla, and Psycho.

Give this a go, its definitely worth a listen!

I've been taking a "mental break" from horror on account of some personal jim-jam. But little bits keep floating up here and there. And one that keeps floating to the surface over and over again is Titane. On account of it being one of the most surreal flicks I think I've ever seen. Just really out there, and I remember watching it. Turning back around, and giving it a second go right then and there because it was just absolutely flabbergasting. So in my current state - can someone please tell me that it wasn't all just a fever dream and that Titane is absolutely 100% real and fucking phenomenally weird =P!?

(*Another one that pops up from time to time is Fresh because it's freakin' hilarious. I mean it's not like - THEEE horror movie but hot damn is the ending where everyone is hobbling around in the dark when the tables turn freakin' hilarious =P!)

Revisiting Ti West's amazing flick with a little Joe Bob commentary and caught this tidbit in the Special Thanks.

It has the occasional humorous moment and overall was an enjoyable watch. It kept my interest the entire time largely due to it steering clear of too many typical horror tropes and how unpredictable it was.

Also, Black Mass and Man Eater Godzilla count.

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There’s nothing I find so cheering, these days, as the rise of the horror movie. Take its intrusion into this year’s summer blockbusters. We have the usual soulless franchises and deadly repeats – Despicable Me 4, Deadpool 3, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Bad Boys: Ride or Die – and then we have a flicker of light in the dark. Turns out that audiences do want new stories, they do want new characters, and they do want inventive film-making after all. Because a genuinely imaginative – arthouse, even – movie is predicted to draw in big audiences and make a great deal of money. It has come in the form of a horror film: Longlegs.

Just released on Friday and starring Nicolas Cage as a serial killer, Longlegs has been reviewed, variously, as “the scariest film of the decade”, and “a film in which every frame is a nightmare”. But it is also starkly beautiful – starting from the opening shot, as we follow a small girl’s progress through a snowy landscape. We move through claustrophobic basements and misty woods, our eyes flicking to layers of shadow in the background, to wherever the characters have last omitted to look. The film is thick with references for film buffs; flashbacks are indicated through texture and ratio changes; there are arty bursts of absurdity.

Yet the film is also expected to gross some $20m (£15.5m) in the US on its opening weekend – an astonishing haul for an indie movie. A BBC review suggests that in future, “horror movies could become the new summer blockbusters, while superhero movies become the counter-programming alternatives”.

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In fact, until a couple of years ago, it was quite routine for horror films to promote themselves to journalists and awards committees by strenuously denying they were horror films at all: instead they claimed to be “elevated horror”, “post-horror”, or “extreme drama”. Darren Aronofsky once described his film Mother!, in which a newborn child is eaten by a mob, as a “thriller” with “home invasion elements”.

But now the genre is at last on course for rehabilitation. What started in 2017, when Jordan Peele released the high-concept gothic Get Out, has continued in a stream of inventive horror films: Hereditary, Us, Nope, Lamb, M3GAN, Talk to Me, Beau Is Afraid. Accolades have mounted, and film-makers no longer have to dredge around for actors, worried the stigma will tank their careers.

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But the really good news, I think, is that the rise of the horror film bucks a dismal pattern. Mainstream cinema is now choked by franchises from the likes of Marvel and DC. Films for grown-ups are increasingly packaged in the bright colours of comic books and infected with parables from the nursery: good overcomes evil, hard work pays off, friendship is nice. We get the same characters, and the same stories, in the same fish-bowl universes.

Horror, by contrast, has become ever more sophisticated, interrogating contemporary anxieties – where do evil and vice really lie? – and playing with form. Last year, Huesera: The Bone Woman drew us into the experience of postpartum psychosis; 2020’s The Invisible Man took us on an empathetic journey with a victim of domestic abuse.

Follow the link to find trailers to some upcoming independent horror films that will be coming to a variety of streaming services and physical media!

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Set in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, the comedy-horror-romance movie follows a struggling writer named James Bishop, who is dealing with a messy breakup with the help of his best friend while trying to finish his latest book before the impending nuclear zombie apocalypse.

Josh Monkarsh wrote and directed “As We Know It.” He says the story reflects the misadventures, friendships and heartbreak of his childhood as he grew up in ’90s-era Los Angeles. Two big sources of inspiration were John Carpenter’s sci-fi action film “They Live” and John Hughes’ coming-of-age favorite “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”

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1. Alien
2. Let the Right One In
3. Aliens
4. Jaws
5. The Silence of the Lambs

Rotten Tomatoes' top 200

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Although Hammer usually receives the bulk of the recognition, there would be no real British horror movie scene without Amicus Productions. Between 1962 and 1977, Amicus produced 28 movies, many of which have become cult classics. The Psychopath. The Deadly Bees. And Now the Screaming Starts! Fine films, all.

But where Amicus really sang was in its “portmanteau” films, made up of five or six short stories connected by a loose overarching theme. These films were not only masterpieces of creativity (after all, it’s much easier to string out one bad idea for 90 minutes than to cram in half a dozen) but also of marketing. Most of the seven Amicus anthologies were sold on the star power of one actor who, given the brevity of each story, might have only appeared on screen for a couple of minutes.

I’m telling you this because Amicus is back. According to Variety, its new president, Lawrie Brewster, has set the goal of re-establishing Amicus “as a beacon of independent British horror”. And it will try to achieve this by, you’ve guessed it, bringing back the portmanteau. The first new Amicus production will be In the Grip of Terror, a collection of four short spooky stories themed around the medical profession

Mayhem (2017) [Action/Comedy/Horror] [UNRATED]

Steven Yeun
Samara Weaving

A virus spreads through an office complex causing white-collar workers to act out their worst impulses.

This was not only a great movie but a great ride as well. I would describe it as a brutal Action/Horror movie. The plot kind of unfolds along the way culminating into a very satisfying revenge-fueled ending.

Two good movies I've seen recently are Trench 11 (this one is a real hidden gem and can be streamed for free on Tubi), and Overlord. Both are horror/scifi period pieces set in world war 1 and 2 respectively. I love the mixture of gritty realism and fantastical horror and was wondering if anyone had some other recommendations.

Not a horror aficionado ... I just know that I like it and need more of it in my life (unfortunately my partner just doesn't really have time/interest in it).