Is Halloween the original teen slasher movie? I feel like it was responsible for a proliferation of copies during the 80s and many of those tropes are still prevalent today.
I read the Moth Diaries, by Rachel Klein - not my normal genre, but it proved to be a subtle and unsettling coming of age tale tinged with possibly imagined vampirism. The film version was awful, and possibly was too concerned with the then-current vogue for Twilight inspired teen vampire romance.
It's years since I've looked at it - from what I remember he was still very much learning his craft (too many characters; plot is overly complicated because it follows historical events too closely at expense of dramatic tension). But I'm sure, as you say, there's a wealth of interesting material there to study
Not horror, but you couldn't move for bullet-time and martial arts after The Matrix. It's fun looking at that film as a watershed of combat in western cinema.
Is Halloween the original teen slasher movie? I feel like it was responsible for a proliferation of copies during the 80s and many of those tropes are still prevalent today.
I read the Moth Diaries, by Rachel Klein - not my normal genre, but it proved to be a subtle and unsettling coming of age tale tinged with possibly imagined vampirism. The film version was awful, and possibly was too concerned with the then-current vogue for Twilight inspired teen vampire romance.
I don't have an example that comes to mind, but was going to through in the Witch of Endor for the conjuration scene. A possible source?
It’s a great example of a play stitched together from different popular elements, a really interesting text to study!
It's years since I've looked at it - from what I remember he was still very much learning his craft (too many characters; plot is overly complicated because it follows historical events too closely at expense of dramatic tension). But I'm sure, as you say, there's a wealth of interesting material there to study
Not horror, but you couldn't move for bullet-time and martial arts after The Matrix. It's fun looking at that film as a watershed of combat in western cinema.
Great example!