Watching horror movies has become something of a pastime for my wife
and I, featuring day-long marathons featuring different types of Horror. Due to
a combination of our own desensitized views to violence and our disdain for the
American cinema, we’ve found ourselves watching foreign horror films, and being
genuinely scared by what we saw! This of course led me to think of how our own
genre has evolved over the years, of how each generation contributed and how
each generation’s idea of terror seemed to take on drastic changes.
And from the early years of silent cinema to today’s surround sound theaters
with 3-D effects, the changes have been so profound that the entire method in
which terror was delivered had changed, forced to mostly by our own collective
experiences and with the technology.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Evil in Modern Horror
When I think of horror,
of what truly makes a good scary movie, the only thing that comes to mind is
the Disney classic Fantasia, specifically the Night on Bald Mountain. The
monstrous demon that emerged from that mountaintop was, bar none, the most
terrifying creature I had ever seen in my life at the time. As I’ve grown
older, and seen more things, I still remember that evil figure and the terror
he instilled in me that, to this day, I strive to feel once again. What can
compare to this literal archetypal figure, modeled after centuries of contrived
thoughts of how demons could behave?
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