Art horror
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Art-Horror is a sub-genre of both horror films and art-films. It explores and experiments with the artistic uses of horror.
Art-Horror films tend to rely on atmosphere building, psychological character development, cinematic style and philosophical themes for effect - rather than straightforward scares. They are almost always created by an auteur. Like horror films, Art-Horror films attempt to evoke fear, terror or revulsion; but like art-films, they tend to be cerebral, contemplative, and inventive in terms of both content and form.
Art-horror films have been described as "a fascinating byproduct of the collision of art and commerce, of genre convention and personal vision".[1] Historically, the genre was loosely related to J-horror and Italian Giallo.
Notable Films
- Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)
- Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960)
- Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
- Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
- Images (Robert Altman, 1972)
- The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
- Don't Look Now (Nicloas Roeg, 1973)
- The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
- Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
- Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)
- The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
- The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
- Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)
- Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
- Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
- Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)
- Let the right one in (Tomas Alferdson, 2008)
- The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)
- Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
- Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
- Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)
- Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)
- The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)
- Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
- Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018)
- Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018)
- Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)
- Us (Jordan Peele, 2019)
- The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)
Notable Directors
- David Cronenberg
- Stanley Kubrick
- Takashi Miike
- Roman Polanski
- Ari Aster
- Werner Herzog
- Robert Eggers
- Michael Haneke
- David Lynch
Further reading
- Hawkins, J. (2000) Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-Garde, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
- Hanscomb, S. (2010) "Existentialism and Art-Horror", Sartre Studies International 16:1, pp. 1-23
External Links
References
- ^ "Under the Skin, Only Lovers Left Alive, and a Brief History of the Art-Horror Film". Vulture. Retrieved 2020-06-29.