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The further adventures of HURDADURDALUR
Aug. 26th, 2010 06:16 pmI do not think I'm ever gonna understand why the hell people think 'gorn' horror movies are in any way innovative and subversive.
Look, u guise (by this I mean the very vocal barge houndy hipsteroo fans who think everyone but them is a plebe), I know you like to think you are so very avant-garde and edgycool and shit, and you put on this 'greater horror film connoiseur than thou' act, but the truth is you all are squeeing at the IMHO substandard revival of a genre that had its birth FORTY YEARS AGO.
No, really. The most artsy splattery film I can think of off the top of my head, Suspiria, came out in 1977. There's more about it here, and it's listed on that 'scariest movie moments and scenes' site as well. Yes, this is the movie mentioned in Juno.
I quote Richie of Crimitism from there in re: this type of horror flick: "To grossly oversimplify, the whole nature of horror itself changed around the mid 1970s, when the focus shifted from conceptual, psychological fears like possession and isolation to the physical, visceral fear that your body is just a lump of meat that can be cut up, infected and fall apart without too much trouble."
( and she just keeps talking! )
Blah blah blah I am a crabby old lady and way too much of an artsy fart for my own good XD But I'm in good company with fun people who also nerd about horror films and debate what zombies are the most awesome.
As usual if I've erred feel free to go 'hey Yukie, your wiki-fu is shaky' or something.
This rant brought to you by the fact that Yukie heard of, in passing, the title of a soon-to-be-released horror film that really sounded like it would be this unholy lovechild of Hellraiser and The Fly but turned out upon further research be just one more stupid grossout horror thing. *fail horns.*
Look, u guise (by this I mean the very vocal barge houndy hipsteroo fans who think everyone but them is a plebe), I know you like to think you are so very avant-garde and edgycool and shit, and you put on this 'greater horror film connoiseur than thou' act, but the truth is you all are squeeing at the IMHO substandard revival of a genre that had its birth FORTY YEARS AGO.
No, really. The most artsy splattery film I can think of off the top of my head, Suspiria, came out in 1977. There's more about it here, and it's listed on that 'scariest movie moments and scenes' site as well. Yes, this is the movie mentioned in Juno.
I quote Richie of Crimitism from there in re: this type of horror flick: "To grossly oversimplify, the whole nature of horror itself changed around the mid 1970s, when the focus shifted from conceptual, psychological fears like possession and isolation to the physical, visceral fear that your body is just a lump of meat that can be cut up, infected and fall apart without too much trouble."
( and she just keeps talking! )
Blah blah blah I am a crabby old lady and way too much of an artsy fart for my own good XD But I'm in good company with fun people who also nerd about horror films and debate what zombies are the most awesome.
As usual if I've erred feel free to go 'hey Yukie, your wiki-fu is shaky' or something.
This rant brought to you by the fact that Yukie heard of, in passing, the title of a soon-to-be-released horror film that really sounded like it would be this unholy lovechild of Hellraiser and The Fly but turned out upon further research be just one more stupid grossout horror thing. *fail horns.*
