and The Unborn Friday the 13th, horror and national holiday carnage
There are two types of horror movies: those that aim to bring elements of the horror in everyday real life and those that locate the horror in a particular place where the protagonists, in spite of themselves, they meet him. The Unborn
belongs to the first category, whose films are designed to create a scary mood that undermines some certainties of the audience about their own lives but often, because of the detailed description of everyday life, flowing into the ridiculous failing in their efforts to put images in a live threatened by evil.
not least because the second type of horror movie, the likes of Friday the 13th that, by showing ordinary people in extraordinary situations, they can often more easily frightened by going to disturb the safety of the public without need to invoke real reasons for the persecution.
There is no mystery in the suburban horror but a disarming clarity of purpose by an executioner on the fate of his victims which, despite numerous efforts, it remains the only chance to try until the inevitable death Procrastination end of the film.
Time Management vs. The extraordinary situation
horror metropolitan or city usually puts clearly supernatural forces in the field and takes the time to orchestrate a plot sufficiently complex to require an entire movie plot a more complex to explain the origins, purpose and funzionamento.Il Unborn example brings up religion, Nazism, and many past legacies Accessories characters who are the "ferry" in the journey of the protagonist (and therefore the public) to understand the reasons behind what is happening, reasons that inevitably will come by the end of the film.
All things that are absolutely unnecessary for the horror extracittadina environment, which does not need an overly complicated plot and instead relies on some very simple and repetitive dynamic (which are at the heart of the ironies of Metafilm Scream) more like an elimination game than a thriller. Even in such films as Friday the 13th proves perfectly, an explanation even if there is thin, but never a real mystery, and often is shown at the beginning because the heart of it all is the discovery of what is happening but the action itself: the carnage. Therefore, if the horror
citizen labors in every way to explain its reasons, taking the trouble to unravel slowly and progressively worse, the suburban horror goes straight to the point and with specious reasoning is staging a massacre in fund has no real motivation other than the staging of the impossibility to save. A demonstration of what is often present in the films of the university city (and in this sense, The Unborn is no exception) as a place dedicated to scientifically legitimize what happens, as if the film really wanted to convince the viewer that what happens in scene also has a minimum point of contact with real life. In the film Goyer
of religion also involved as a system of opposition between good and evil in this sense provides an element of "realism", with its sacred texts, its mythological figures and its historical basis.
only against all
Another distinctive feature is that you're alone in the city and outside it in the company.
Although the city is the site of mass society, one in which people flows in larger numbers, it is also the site of depersonalization and atomization, the one in which humans are alone in the crowd, so they are also just in front of ' horror. Monsters, ghosts and demons chasing them individually, they can kill their loved ones and a few friends but huddle with the players that there is an exclusive rustic horror where you kill everything and everyone in an order that is not dictated by a network but by needs suspense film.
has not an enemy but especially Jason slaughters all the merry company of young people who come to its territory, punishing them for the very existence and have had contact with him. And what he is alone and that it always has been, much to foment hatred towards others, especially the category to which he once aspired. At a higher level one could say that in these films are just figures to save more moral according to the ethics bigot, those who are not promiscuous sex, those who get drunk and those who do not smoke marijuana. Essentially those who are not young in the usual sense. Jason is democratic: all massacred. But it is the directors to be bigots saving only those who believe have values.
All this of course does not exist in the city because the protagonists are always suffering from a life in a way or another problem, and therefore in their already small heroic and deserving the ultimate salvation.
Enter the horror in ordinary and extraordinary contexts
With an ordinary context the national horror at any time dilutes the atmosphere of tension through daily activities: attending gyms, brushing teeth, called a friend or go to seeking practices and allies are all scenes that engage the plot to reality whenever the appearance seems demonic release it.
This double dimension is very complex to manage because the synthesis of the two components should be born in an atmosphere can change the perception that we ended up making gestures ordinariness newspapers something to be afraid. And here The Unborn fails, because the reality with its soothing aesthetic has the better of the moments of terror by making implausible.
Friday, 13 however, as all attacks unprovoked, violent and well-concentrated in a short period of time (as we saw recently in The Strangers, a horror film but definitely suburban home), has no point of contact with the dynamics of everyday life and in reassuring This is not afraid despite the ridiculous staging things as implausible (especially with regard to the unstoppable executioner).
why proceeding by metaphor and allegory for the reality of the horror that are set in contexts far removed from everyday life can best speak to it. Failing to stop a massacre that happens in camp becomes much more thoughtful destabilizing the fight against the forces of evil that happens in the backyard.
by MYMOVIES.IT of 24/02/2009
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