| Trends in horror | 12.03.2009 |
I have been thinking about this lately. There are times when a certain theme becomes all the rage and multiple movies hit in that sub-genre. Granted, there are some sub-genres that have a life of their own. Zombies and Vampires seem to be the biggest. Slashers have always come and gone. But the 80’s was it’s own set of unique.
Most of the iconic modern monsters were born then. Jason, Freddy, Michael, Pinhead. But there were some other interesting moments mixed in there as well. One interesting sub-genre was the Christmas horror movies. Silent Night, Deadly Night being the most renowned as it was the subject of some controversy. While other movies had quietly come and gone with Santa killers, this one struck a chord with conservative America. Perhaps it was the more clever word play in the title. Or perhaps it was simply the sudden realization that there was yet another movie twisting a holiday icon into a killer.
I have commented a number of times about the current trend of remaking every halfway decent and halfway horrible film from the 80’s. An odd dichotomy really. Good movies get the remake treatment out of homage to them (and the belief that a remake will line the pockets easier than being original will. While the halfway horrible ones sometimes get remade because someone feels the idea was better than the end product and if it had only been done slightly different… well, then they could line their pockets with the new version. With all this running through my head I can’t help but wonder when we are going to see a return to the festive sleighing of a certain jolly old bastard. Heh, sitting here writing this reminds me of a story I had been working on before the crashing and burning of my old computer’s harddrive and loss of all my writings. I know, I am an idiot for not having them backed up. I have backups of the writings I have edited for others but not my own.
Maybe what we need to liven things up is a little holiday cheer. I feel a writing contest coming on. I want an original reworking of a holiday song. But whore it up. I mean horror it up. Take the tune and rhythm of a Christmas song (preferably one that people will know) and write new words for it. I want to come up with some interesting prizes for this, so I am not gonna say right NOW what the prizes will be. Or who will judge them. But in the next day or so I will. And who knows, by the time I get home and post this I may very well have figured out what and who.
Bloody MonkeyZ
Most of the iconic modern monsters were born then. Jason, Freddy, Michael, Pinhead. But there were some other interesting moments mixed in there as well. One interesting sub-genre was the Christmas horror movies. Silent Night, Deadly Night being the most renowned as it was the subject of some controversy. While other movies had quietly come and gone with Santa killers, this one struck a chord with conservative America. Perhaps it was the more clever word play in the title. Or perhaps it was simply the sudden realization that there was yet another movie twisting a holiday icon into a killer.
I have commented a number of times about the current trend of remaking every halfway decent and halfway horrible film from the 80’s. An odd dichotomy really. Good movies get the remake treatment out of homage to them (and the belief that a remake will line the pockets easier than being original will. While the halfway horrible ones sometimes get remade because someone feels the idea was better than the end product and if it had only been done slightly different… well, then they could line their pockets with the new version. With all this running through my head I can’t help but wonder when we are going to see a return to the festive sleighing of a certain jolly old bastard. Heh, sitting here writing this reminds me of a story I had been working on before the crashing and burning of my old computer’s harddrive and loss of all my writings. I know, I am an idiot for not having them backed up. I have backups of the writings I have edited for others but not my own.
Maybe what we need to liven things up is a little holiday cheer. I feel a writing contest coming on. I want an original reworking of a holiday song. But whore it up. I mean horror it up. Take the tune and rhythm of a Christmas song (preferably one that people will know) and write new words for it. I want to come up with some interesting prizes for this, so I am not gonna say right NOW what the prizes will be. Or who will judge them. But in the next day or so I will. And who knows, by the time I get home and post this I may very well have figured out what and who.
Bloody MonkeyZ
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