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Think of Chris Nash’s film as Béla Tarr doing an unholy doc-fiction hybrid about Crystal Lake.
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Horror movies tap into our deepest fears, doing their best to scare us silly, yet they are oddly addictive. The beauty, and success, of horror films comes from the fear of the unknown, building suspense and adrenaline in the audience. Luckily for filmmakers, this allows almost anyone interested in the genre to make a thrilling horror movie on any budget, as long as your remember the basic tenants of the genre.
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Night of the Living Dead is one of the greatest horror films ever made. George A. Romero’s black and white chiller from 1968 still defines zombies to this day and is as stark and shocking as it ever was due to the brilliant direction, socially charged script and non stop horror.
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The great white shark in Jaws is never given a name, but off screen, during the production of the 1975 classic, it got names aplenty.
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Recently I heard someone refer to Extreme Horror and Splatterpunk as “body horror” and my head just about exploded. I have gotten used to the idea that terms like Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror have basically switched definitions in modern genre lexicon, but let's not get ridiculous. Please forgive me if that comes off rather curmudgeonly, but some words really need to stay as they are. Changing “Splatterpunk” to “Body Horror” makes as much sense as calling all motor vehicles Jeeps. So, I thought I would explain what body horror is and is not.
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Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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Today we talk to independent filmmaker Teace Snyder about how he managed to make a professional feature-length film, Hold Me, without any studio support. We discuss the need to replace the Hollywood propaganda system with an authentic, grassroots, people-led media creation process and the types of platforms and communities that will be needed to truly replace Hollywood.
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