Horror is probably the most polarized genre in the world.
The same horror movie, the people who like it are extremely respected, and the people who hate it hate it deeply.
Do you hate horror movies too?
Is it possible to default to the fact that horror films are always inferior to other genres?
Don't you think horror movies are useless except to create curiosity and excitement?
Kayu, who loves horror movies, wants to justify it today.
Maybe you've seen this high-scoring new drama and you'll know:
Horror movies are more profound than you think.
The History of Eli Rose's Horror
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Who is Eli Rose in the title?
Why stir up a big beam in this star-studded documentary?
That's because he's a veteran horror movie lover and has a high reputation in the circle.
Ever since he watched Alien when he was 8 years old, he was convinced that he would never give up on horror movies in his life.
With honors, after graduating from the New York University Film School, he mixed with large and small crews.
From group actors and stand-ins to directors and production assistants, explore the secrets behind horror movies from all angles.
At the age of 30, he finally entered the film world as a director.
The film debut film "Bones Remain" became the highest-grossing work at the Toronto Film Festival.
No bones remain
He has since co-directed with Quentin and made a cameo appearance in Shameless Bastards.
Shameless bastard
He also created the horror film "Human Skin Inn" and the horror drama "Hemlock Bush", which won the Saturn Award at the Science Fiction Horror Film Award.
It can be said that it is a model for the horror film industry to chase the stars to the front line.
In order to make a documentary on the history of horror that is authoritative enough to show love to the horror culture that you are addicted to.
Eli Ross used almost all of his resources and connections in the film industry for many years.
Featured representatives from genre films by Steven King and Quentin.
To ray Werner, the "Wenzi Renji friend" who recently caught fire due to "Upgrade" and "The Invisible Man".
Wen Ziren & Ray Werner
From A-list actors and musicians who are active in front of the stage like Jack Black and Slash.
To nearly a hundred off-screen special effects makeup artists, photographers, cartoonists, critics, scholars, magazine editors...
Combining the background of the times, our own experiences and social influences, we will explore the classic horror movies that make us tremble together.
After the launch, although few people in China know.
But in the United States, it attracts more than six million online viewers, with an IMDb rating of 8.1.
Episode-derived podcasts also climbed to second place in the film and television podcast charts.
Due to the enthusiastic response, AMC is expected to launch a second season this year.
The entire history of Eli Ross's Horror consists of seven episodes.
Each episode takes forty or fifty minutes.
Combing through one of the most popular horror movie genres at the moment:
Zombies, murderers, exorcists, monsters, vampires...
Zombies are probably the most popular horror genre of the twenty-first century.
Europe and the United States have the long-standing "The Walking Dead" and "Resident Evil".
Asia has also recently had the popular "Kingdom" and "Busan Trip".
So in the first episode, Eli Rose invited Gregory Nicktro, the director of the Walking Dead series.
and Rob Zombie, the most well-known practitioner of zombie culture, musician and filmmaker.
Talk at the same table about how zombie culture has risen in the United States and become popular around the world.
As you may have heard, the origin of modern zombies is "Night of the Living Dead" by the horror giant Romero.
Romero is also known as the father of zombies.
Romero
But you probably don't know.
As early as the thirties and forties, there were already prototypes of zombies on the screen.
At the time, the living dead, such as Frankenstein, had always been a symbol of marginalized people.
They are deprived of their freedom and identity by the world, enslaved and excluded.
It refers to the suffering workers and poor people of the 1930s and 1940s.
By the end of the sixties, Romero had given a whole new definition of zombies.
They will rebel, they will contagious, they will hide in the dark danger outside the shelter.
The dangerous situation of the protagonists is almost a microcosm of the social conditions in the United States in the late sixties.
The people's lives were painful and oppressive, and the unknown violent unrest was restless.
Especially the ironic ending of the black male protagonist in "Night of the Living Dead".
At the time, the black affirmative action movement spawned a series of racial and human rights legislation.
The black male protagonist in the film, who survived the threat of zombies, was shot dead by a stupid and violent white vigilante.
It was a slap in the face of all spectators, left and right.
Since then, the symbol of the zombie has become a panacea for criticizing mainstream American values.
In Romero's Dawn of the Living Dead, urban zombies wander around because of their physical instincts and return to big shopping malls.
This is undoubtedly a barbaric statement about the brainless and blind consumerism of the late seventies.
By the time zombies come out, unscrupulous, centralized control of the army has become a more terrifying threat than zombies.
This, of course, is an indictment and provocation to the social system that completely collapsed in the Reagan era.
This kind of creative thinking has also deeply influenced a large number of excellent zombie-themed film and television works later.
For example, Shaun the Zombie.
It is a true reflection of director Edgar Wright's mind, of people like himself falling into Romero's universe.
At that time, the young generation in Britain, confused and dull, paralyzed by superficial entertainment and alcohol every day.
It is difficult for them to detect the approach of danger, and it is difficult for them to defend themselves in the face of difficult situations.
For example, "28 Days of Shock".
It is a twenty-first-century young creator of rebellion and innovation against Romero-style zombies.
In the fast-paced modern social life, people face more powerful and rapid threats.
Many times before it is too late to react, it is taken by evil.
And then to The Walking Dead.
Gregory, who once worked with Romero, inherits the deep excavation of human nature in this new work, using realistic and shocking special effects makeup techniques.
Combined with the contemporary superb computer post-production, it creates a zombie image with different forms.
Through these shapes, the viewer can almost catch a glimpse of the traces of its life and the remnants of humanity.
At this point, we start thinking again:
Who is the real Walking Dead?
Is it the zombies that flock to the story?
Or is it the reality of human beings who have been displaced by the subprime mortgage crisis and the gap between rich and poor, and who have no hope?
The zombie theme reflects on and deconstructs the social relations in reality by imagining a completely collapsed apocalyptic environment.
Horror movies themselves can also be said to be a collection of political, social metaphors and satire.
And those filmmakers who come from horror movies or have a special love for horror movies.
They are also often better at alluding to the times and satirizing society in their works.
With a large number of strange and bizarre stories and shocking pictures, open the door to the most cruel truth of human nature.
Documentary "Red, White and Blue Nightmare"
Knowing this, perhaps we can gain insight into the main issues of each era's social culture through some excellent horror movies.
Take Hitchcock, for example.
Before the sixties, he directed Horror and Butterfly Dreams.
The blonde, blue-eyed, young and beautiful heroines are just vases in the story.
Nightmares and tragedies happen to them, but they are often powerless to resist.
Only deserve to be appreciated, consumed, and sympathized with by the audience in front of the screen.
But in Alien, which was born in the seventies and eighties.
The only surviving heroine, while fearing the unknown life form, bravely confronts.
Such rebellion can be interpreted as an awakening of women's self-consciousness.
Look at the horror works that have sparked a lot of discussion over the years.
In "Moonlight Panic", which was rebooted after many years.
Lauren, who had been hunted down and killed, had grown up and did not hesitate to raise his shotgun.
Heavily armed and active against that terrible Halloween killer.
In the addictive anti-killing story "Ready or Not" and "Hunting".
The blonde beauty in danger is no longer the number one victim of the manipulation and sacrifice of darkness.
Instead, it is cool-headed and agile, and the hostile forces are completely swept away.
In the chilling and thought-provoking "A Midsummer Night's Horror" and "The Invisible Man".
The heroines, who were originally vulnerable, finally saw through the traps set for them by the so-called intimate relationships.
By calmly cutting everything off, they finally fall in love with themselves and gain peace.
These female figures jump out of the standardized aesthetic and become powerful.
Perhaps this could be explained by a new rise in the spirit of female independence.
The creators are constantly alerting to this through scary horror stories.
A deeper analysis of the prejudices and discrimination that still exists in society, and the shackles and shackles of women themselves.
Or maybe.
Implicit in this is the traditional system's fear of their subversive power.
Fear is perhaps the strongest emotion in human beings.
It is the instinctive response of humans to avoid danger.
It originally existed to protect you, not to hurt you.
It is related to life and death, to good and evil, and to things and things.
After the intense stimulation, human rationality and vigilance are awakened one by one.
Understand what you are afraid of, and understand what society as a whole is afraid of.
After this, you will find:
It is as common as laughing and crying;
Even in addition to entertainment and mood swings, it will make you smart and make you grow.