Actor and writer Mark Gatiss celebrates the greatest achievements of horror cinema.
This documentary helped us understand the processes of how a horror film is constructed. I found this helpful as it showed horror techniques used and why they were effective.
Q&A with Mark Gattis on making the 3 part series:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vcwm7
"Why did you stop in the late 70s?"
"We had to stop somewhere and the release of Halloween in 1978 seemed the perfect place. It's a superb film. Almost perfect in its power to shock and scare. But it ushered the age of the slasher movie, effectively killing off 'supernatural' horror for a generation. Of course, there were exceptions but Halloween seemed the natural place to end."
I think Mark makes a good point, that few new changes to horror have been made since the golden age of the 70s horror genre. There are some exceptions such as; Blairwitch with the handy cam style, or Saw introducing extreme scenes of gore, violence and torture. I think that directors are possibly becoming complacent in the genre rarely offering new twists on horror? Leaving audiences bored wanting something new?
This documentary helped us understand the processes of how a horror film is constructed. I found this helpful as it showed horror techniques used and why they were effective.
Q&A with Mark Gattis on making the 3 part series:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vcwm7
"Why did you stop in the late 70s?"
"We had to stop somewhere and the release of Halloween in 1978 seemed the perfect place. It's a superb film. Almost perfect in its power to shock and scare. But it ushered the age of the slasher movie, effectively killing off 'supernatural' horror for a generation. Of course, there were exceptions but Halloween seemed the natural place to end."
I think Mark makes a good point, that few new changes to horror have been made since the golden age of the 70s horror genre. There are some exceptions such as; Blairwitch with the handy cam style, or Saw introducing extreme scenes of gore, violence and torture. I think that directors are possibly becoming complacent in the genre rarely offering new twists on horror? Leaving audiences bored wanting something new?
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