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2021 Slasher resurgence and boom with Scream return

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The Genre That Refuses to Die!

Horror will always be a controversial genre, endlessly linked in to moral panics, largely because it is so consistently popular with a teen audience. Psycho and Peeping Tom caused outrage in 1960, ruining the career of Michael Powell; Child's Play 3 was (inaccurately) linked to the Bulger killings, re-fuelling the 'video nasties' debate; the Saw franchise has created many headlines and been dubbed 'torture porn'.
And yet ... many years on, the likes of Psycho and Halloween, not to mention Hammer's Dracula are hailed as classics, and the genre remains box office gold, the reboot of Nightmare on Elm Street hitting no.1 in May 2010 solid proof of its enduring appeal.
I've tried to avoid embedding any particuarly gory examples of the genre, but please note that some of the links may direct you to sites featuring some gore, and some may contain adult advertising, so please use this blog responsibly!

Film: Horror | guardian.co.uk

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Nov2011: More useful sites/blogs

  • 25 Best Horrors Ever (Guardian List)
  • A Selective History of the Slasher Film notcoming.com
  • Carole Clover wiki - argued final girl as feminist character (later modified stance)
  • Feminist film theory wiki
  • Final Girl wiki
  • finalgirl BLOG Micro-Indie feminist thoughts
  • From Goblin to Morricone: the art of horror movie music [Guardian]
  • Giallo wiki (Italian slashers - Argento etc; offscreen killer 1 common convention picked up by US film
  • Guardian's horror section
  • History of Horror: Slashers by retrojunk.com - detailed history
  • Laura Mulvey wiki - feminist critic of use of scream queens + male gaze
  • Scream4 opening (10mins) YouTube
  • thebloodyhorror BLOG
  • thecutup BLOG - main page features an interesting history of the blog and its changing usage; great to help you reflect on NEW MEDIA
  • thecutup.net
  • Wiki on slasher genre

Complete films online - the future for 'straight-to-DVD'?

  • CrazeDigitalMovies YouTube channel
  • Trailers with links for full films (2010 zombie flicks)

Zombie genre

  • "Zombies in popular culture" - detailed overview [pdf] by Jasie Stokes (suggested by SamBoyce)
  • 2010 zombie films (YouTube trailer comp - MANY useful additional links on sidebar, + for the actual films trailed)
  • Being Human S3 Ep3 features a postmodern deconstruction of the zombie
  • Colin, the £45 film
  • Last of the Living [YouTube Trailer - lo-fi Aussie zom-com]
  • Survival of the Dead - complete film, online
  • Warp to release zombie flick
  • YouTuber's top 20 zombie movies
  • Zombie Bosh - amateur short from Huddersfield enthusiasts
  • Zombie Wars - complete film on YouTube
  • Zombies for charity

Horror audience

  • Audience Expectations in the ‘Slasher’ Formula
  • Student analysis of audience for production
  • The Popularity of Horror Films

Recent and historical lists of horror films

  • ***UpcomingHorrorMovies.com***
  • Best of 2010 [listze.com]
  • Best of 2010 [movieroomreviews.com]
  • Boxofficemojo.com - slashers history
  • Forum list of best of 2009/10 [rateyourmusic.com]
  • General release slate: the-numbers.com
  • GetMeHorror YouTube channel
  • Most violent films, video games of 2009/10 (many NOT horror!)
  • Movie-moron best of 2011
  • Teaser-trailer.com (trailer sites are another way of finding info, but also getting a preview!]
  • upcoming horror films 2010/2011 (part 1) [YouTube vid]
  • upcoming horror films 2010/2011 (part 2) [YouTube vid, with a nice Cradle of Filth soundtrack!]
  • Upcoming Movies 2011 - useful to see which slashers are picked out amongst this general list [eventlovershideout.com]

Trailers

  • Hollywood Reporter's Key Art awards
  • Horrornymph YouTube channel for horror trailers
  • See loooong links list on DB blog

Women in horror

  • Fangirltastic blog
  • Final Girl blog (strong language in this frank account by a low budget filmmaker of her experiences and views)
  • Horrornews.net on scream queens + history of
  • Laura Mulvey - fem't critic [wiki]
  • TheScreamQueen.net - fem't take on ISOYGrave remake
  • TheSpinningImage long feature on SQs - a tad sexist, but informative
  • Women directors - post from DB BritCinema blog
  • Women editors - post from DB BritCinema blog
  • Zombiegrrlz.com's Top 5 (useful blog in itself, complete with podcasts of course!)

Scream Queens - the TV show!

  • VH1 show site
  • wiki
  • wiki on the term scream queen

Brit Horror links

  • "British Horror - Gritty Realism" [Gdn art]
  • "British Horror Back from the Dead" [Gdn art]
  • BritishHorrorFilms.co.uk

General Resources [some may be blocked by filter in school]

  • Analysis of rise of British slashers [Gdn article]
  • BestSlasherMovies.com
  • BlahMovies blog - lots of reviews of horror
  • BloodyDisgusting.com - huge site, featuring news of many more obscure, even micro-budget, productions
  • Evil Dead fan site 'Deadites Online'
  • Evil Dead: study of its status as cult movie [Amazon book link]
  • Filmsite overview of horror genre
  • Gender and Sexuality in the Slasher Film [retroslashers.net article]
  • Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema [book: Amazon link; its in Library!]
  • Mark Kermode - some useful reviews
  • Mark Kermode [wiki] - useful source for made-up quotes on film posters!
  • Mark Kermode's blog
  • Retroslashers.net - great for reviews of old-school slashers to recycle ideas from!
  • Terrordrome The Game - a game that enables you to fight as Freddie, Jason etc; presumably 18-rated

Controversy and censorship

  • Book on 1980s UK 'video nasty' moral panic [Trash or treasure?: censorship and the changing meanings of the video nasties By Kate Egan - free google book]

Make-Up + SFX

  • BloodyDisgusting.com's Top 10 non-CGI SFX [NB: contains VERY gory 18-rated clips]
The Guardian's Phelim O'Neill offers this summary of the genre: 'There are two things horror has taught us. Firstly, there will always be new horror films. Secondly, most of them will be rubbish. Thankfully, enough will take a chance or try a few different moves to keep the genre in rude health.'
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