Horror discussion from a leftist perspective /Leftyhorror/ 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:00 No. 8914
I've seen only a few other threads about horror on here and they seemed too specific, so I thought I'd make a broader one.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:00 No. 8915
>>8914 I honestly think we're in a golden age of horror. Companies like A24 and Blumhouse are funding smaller and more creative directors many of whom are actually good who are then given free reign to put their vision to film. They've figured out that even crappy horror films generally break even and they only need a few breakout stars to make large profits. While a lot of crap is being made we're also getting a lot of high quality films that big studios wouldn't risk like The Lighthouse and Split.
Not to say everything is rosy but horror is the perfect genre for this to happen in and is flourishing for it.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:01 No. 8923
>>8915 Eh
The 80s was the horror Golden Age
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:03 No. 8937
>>8923 My eyes have started to glaze over when I see 80s horror discussion, the cheap slasher and gross out schlock people rave about doesn't hold any appeal for me anymore.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:04 No. 8941
i find horror kind of boring, very rarely ever get scared by a piece of media - feel like it works better ats a secondary characteristic rather than the primary focus
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:04 No. 8942
>>8937 Fuck off 80s special effects were great they were the peak of special effects, if not then it was the early 90s so yeaaaaa
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:04 No. 8945
>>8923 We're in another golden age.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:05 No. 8949
>>8945 No we’re in a fools gold age
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:08 No. 8973
>>8914 I've been told before that horror has had a history of being progressive, and that it is a reactionary genre. Is there a progressive horror lineage?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:13 No. 9010
Zombie movies are great, especially when done in a fresh way, like Train to Busan. I like that the genre was started as a critique of consumer capitalism – mindless people consuming everything in sight, set in a mall.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:00 No. 10384
>>8915 I think most contemporary horror movies start off with an interesting premise but they never deliver an interesting ending, it either ends without explaining anything or it's a scatterbrained attempt of just trying to wrap it up. Like with Annihilation, I liked the surreal horror of it but the ending (aliens and shit) is just lazy writing. I think a recent horror movie where I liked the ending was Get Out!
But yeah, I feel like many times writers are just starting with "wouldn't it be scary if…" but completely forget to write a story.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:07 No. 10448
I ownder if there's any horror films that were made in the USSR
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:07 No. 10450
>>10449 >it's actually about capitalism Yeah, about how great capitalism is.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:07 No. 10451
>>8973 >I've been told before that horror has had a history of being progressive Yeah, like Hellraiser.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:08 No. 10455
>>10448 Not really a horror movie, more like a Sci-Fi movie with horror elements, but I watched "Sputnik" yesterday which is a 2020 Russian movie playing during Soviet times. It sort of resembles the classic Russian/Soviet film making style, sadly it tried very hard to imitate typical Hollywood tropes at times which sometimes made it look incoherent. I still found it very very entertaining.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:51 No. 10798
Saint Maud has been released. It looks like it might be worth going to see.
It's had good reviews from the Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/film-round-up-october-9-2020 and Mark Kermode
https://youtu.be/WAVGfS7X9j8 Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:56:56 No. 10844
there's not enough psychological horror and there never has been
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:33 No. 11568
>>10448 Idi i Smotri is like the apocalypse now of soviet era cinema. It takes its name from the book of revelation, for that matter.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:35 No. 11588
>>11568 Come and See is IMO much better than Apocalypse Now.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:48 No. 11691
>>10450 Have you seen Season 3, which takes place almost entirely in the post-industrial poverty of the original town, or the half-abandoned post-recession suburban sprawl of Las Vegas? It's literally Hinterland: the show.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:50 No. 11700
>>11588 I think those two movies are very different, and you really can't compare them.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:56 No. 11742
I was trying to find a good list of 2019/2020 horror movies and on Rotten Tomatoes there is surprisingly a lot with tons of hidden gems:
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-horror-movies-of-2020/ Many of those have socio-political commentary (one of them is literally a horror parable on the American-sponsered genocide of Mayan people in Guatemala), and I've noticed that on IMDB, [b]any[/b] movie with socio-political commentary gets downvoted by right-wingers or uneducated burgers who think some leftist Hollywood smugs secretly try to deceive them. Like, it doesn't even need to decidedly leftist, once it gets political IMDB reviewers have a knee-jerk reaction against it like "leftist agenda ruins my creature flicks!" and stuff like that. "I was expecting to see a horror movie but what is this, the plot makes no sense!!"
This actually confirmed that most average right-wing normies are probably, generally, very stupid people. They don't understand anything on a meta level and even if they had an IQ that entail the comprehension for it, they will just pretend not to see or hear it in a pathological way.
Anonymous 2021-02-23 (Tue) 12:14:41 No. 14355
I watched shaun of the dead and it made me fucking cry
Anonymous 2021-02-23 (Tue) 19:18:04 No. 14357
>>14356 how can someone just reduce a movie to such a reductionist conclusion. it's like they watched a trailer for the movie and assumed it wuz da joooooz
If they actually watched another John Carpenter film, they'd be calling him a """slave""" to """system""" since at least 1976.
Anonymous 2021-02-23 (Tue) 19:57:14 No. 14358
>>14356 this is horrific.
>>10835 Hereditary was good. I felt like a boomer when
someone got their head chopped of in a moving vehicle . It was so shocking I wanted to leave the theater for a second.
Anonymous 2021-02-23 (Tue) 21:43:04 No. 14359
>>14358 the logic of the kid lying down in the bad trying to escape what had just happened with a few more hours of normalcy and then having the reality confirmed in the morning with the screams was very striking, made the spooky cult stuff afterwards seem kind of lame.
Anonymous 2021-02-24 (Wed) 11:41:19 No. 14366
>>14356 Fucking based
I never watched the movie and always felt uncomfortable how much pol liked this movie but lmfao they got project muh jews onto everything
Anonymous 2021-02-24 (Wed) 21:50:28 No. 14367
>>14366 >I never watched the movie Why haven't you seen it? You should, and also watch Zizek's funny commentary on it.
Anonymous 2021-02-24 (Wed) 23:10:40 No. 14368
>>14367 The movie is great were can I watch zizeks commentary?
pan-africanism Pan-Africanism Anonymous 2021-02-27 (Sat) 16:02:50 No. 14397
>>14355 I got the feeling that they were satirizing something (that I can't put into words because I'm ESL) at the end of The World's End too.
Has someone else felt like this when watching Hot Fuzz? It's the only one I haven't watched recently so I wouldn't remember if there was anything that could be considered commentary on capitalism.
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