Postmodern horror
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Background
Characteristics of this genre (starting in the 1960s onwards) includes constituting a violent disruption of the everyday world, transgressions and violated boundaries, questioning the validity of rationality, repudiation of narrative and producing a bounded experience of fear (between the audience and the film).[1]
Notable postmodern horror films
- Psycho (1960)[1]
- Spider Baby (1967)[2]
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)[3][1][4][5]
- Targets (1968)[1]
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)[1][5]
- House (1977)[6]
- Halloween (1978)[1]
- Dawn of the Dead (1978)[7]
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)[8]
- The Brood (1979)[1]
- The Shining (1980)[9]
- The Evil Dead (1981)[10]
- The Howling (1981)[11][1]
- The Entity (1982)[1]
- The Thing (1982)[1]
- Videodrome (1983)[1]
- The Toxic Avenger (1984)[12]
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)[1][5]
- Re-Animator (1985)[1]
- Fright Night (1985)[13]
- Chopping Mall (1986)[1]
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)[1]
- Evil Dead II (1987)[14][10]
- Beetlejuice (1988)[15]
- Lady in White (1988)[1]
- Candyman (1992)[4]
- Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)[13][16]
- From Dusk till Dawn (1996)[17]
- Scream (1996)[18][19][20][21][13][17]
- I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)[22]
- Bride of Chucky (1998)[23]
- The Blair Witch Project (1999)[17]
- American Psycho (2000)[17]
- Final Destination (2000)[17]
- Scary Movie (2000)[22]
- Party Monster (2003)[24]
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)[17]
- Drag Me to Hell (2009)[17]
- The Cabin in the Woods (2012)[13][17]
- ParaNorman (2012)[25]
- Hotel Transylvania (2012)[26]
- The Final Girls (2015)[27]
- Get Out (2017)[28]
- Us (2019)[29]
- Midsommar (2019)[30]
- Last Night in Soho (2021)[31]
- Nope (2022)[32]
Directors associated with postmodern horror
- Jordan Peele
- Robert Rodriguez
- Ari Aster
- Sam Raimi
- Lloyd Kaufman
- John Carpenter
- Wes Craven
- David Cronenberg
- George A. Romero
- Stuart Gordon
- Tobe Hooper
- Joe Dante
- Edgar Wright
- Stanley Kubrick
- Tim Burton
See also
- Postmodernist film
- Postmodern television
- Social thriller
- Extreme cinema
- Vulgar auteurism
- Art horror
- Folk horror
- American New Wave
- Indiewood
- Analog horror
References
- ^ ISBN 9780813533636. Retrieved February 2, 2023 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Spider Baby, or the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)". January 15, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ ""The Walking Dead" Recalls a 60s Horror Classic". November 22, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2023 – via www.reuters.com.
- ^ S2CID 194218977.
- ^ a b c Recreational Terror - Google Books
- ^ "Heart of Weirdness: The Story Behind HAUSU". Austin Film Society. October 22, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ "Filmmuseum - Program SD". www.filmmuseum.at.
- ^ Cusson, Katie (April 11, 2022). "Every Invasion of the Body Snatchers Movie and How Each is an Allegory For Their Time". MovieWeb. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ISBN 9781527519046. Retrieved February 2, 2023 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b The Monstrous-feminine - Google Books (pg.73)
- ^ Staff, Slant (October 28, 2022). "The 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time". Slant Magazine. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ "What Will The Citizens Of New Jersey Mutate Into?". Gizmodo. May 9, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ a b c d "The Most Important Postmodern Horror Movies". uk.yahoo.com. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- . Retrieved February 2, 2023 – via www.academia.edu.
- ^ "30 years later and Beetlejuice is still the ghost with the most". March 30, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ Trinos, Angelo Delos (June 24, 2022). "10 Times Horror Movies Broke Their Own Rules". CBR. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "10 Savvy Postmodern Horror Films That Helped Reinvent The Genre | Decider". October 24, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ "Horror in fancy clothes: the 1990s cycle of prestige monster movies". BFI. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ "The top 10 greatest horror films of the 1980s". faroutmagazine.co.uk. October 14, 2021. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ "Scream and Scream Again: The Postmodern Musings of "Scream"". MUBI. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ Hollman, Raquel (August 30, 2022). "Wes Craven's 'Last House on the Left' Is Not Just About Depravity and Violence". Collider. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ a b Black, A. J. (July 7, 2020). "SCARY MOVIE: a post-modern horror spoof without any post-modern wit (2000 in Film #26)". We Made This. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ Staff, The Playlist (April 15, 2011). "The Playlist's Guide To Horror Sequels Worth Screaming About". Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ Russell, Saralyn (June 10, 2014). "Queerly Monstrous: Reading Party Monster as a Postmodern Horror Film". Kino: The Western Undergraduate Film Studies Journal. 5 (1). Retrieved February 2, 2023 – via ojs.lib.uwo.ca.
- ^ "'ParaNorman' Is a Hilarious, Heartfelt Horror Homage, PopMatters". August 13, 2012. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ Thill, Scott. "Exclusive Video: Crafting Hotel Transylvania's CGI Monster Party". Retrieved February 2, 2023 – via www.wired.com.
- ^ Smith, Nathan (August 5, 2022). "Summer-Camp Horror Movies to Stream From Your Bunk". Vulture. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ "'Get Out' Is The Type Of Movie The Oscars Should Pay Attention To". HuffPost. March 5, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ "Jordan Peele's 'Us' Postmodernism and Free-Floating Racism". March 29, 2019. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- S2CID 246241427. Retrieved February 2, 2023 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
- ^ Walsh, Katie (October 28, 2021). "Review: A visual and aural feast, Edgar Wright's 'Last Night in Soho' has a few wobbles". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ Gittell, Noah (July 20, 2022). "Jordan Peele's Nope Fails to Dazzle When the Aliens Are Revealed - WCP". Washington City Paper. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
Further reading
- Prince, Stephen The Horror Film, Rutgers University Press 2012
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