Chuckydoll:
In the first half of the 1990s, the genre continued many of the themes from the 1980s. Sequels from the Child's Play and Leprechaun series enjoyed some commercial success. The slasher films A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and Halloween all saw sequels in the 1990s, most of which met with varied amounts of success at the box office, but all were panned by fans and critics, with the exception of Wes Craven's New Nightmare.New Nightmare, with In the Mouth of Madness, The Dark Half, and Candyman, were part of a mini-movement of self-reflexive or metafictional horror films. Each film touched upon the relationship between fictional horror and real-world horror. Candyman, for example, examined the link between an invented urban legend and the realistic horror of the racism that produced its villain. In the Mouth of Madness took a more literal approach, as its protagonist actually hopped from the real world into a novel created by the madman he was hired to track down. This reflective style became more overt and ironic with the arrival of Scream.
In 1994's Interview with the Vampire, the "Theatre de Vampires" (and the film itself, to some degree) invoked the Grand Guignol style, perhaps to further remove the undead performers from humanity, morality and class. The horror movie soon continued its search for new and effective frights. In 1985's novel The Vampire Lestat by author Anne Rice (who penned Interview...'s screenplay and the 1976 novel of the same name) suggests that its antihero Lestat inspired and nurtured the Grand Guignol style and theatre.
Two main problems pushed horror backward during this period: firstly, the horror genre wore itself out with the proliferation of nonstop slasher and gore films in the eighties. Secondly, the adolescent audience which feasted on the blood and morbidity of the previous decade grew up, and the replacement audience for films of an imaginative nature were being captured instead by the explosion of science-fiction and fantasy, courtesy of the special effects possibilities with computer-generated imagery.
To re-connect with its audience, horror became more self-mockingly ironic and outright parodic, especially in the latter half of the 1990s. Peter Jackson's Braindead (1992) (known as Dead Alive in the USA) took the splatter film to ridiculous excesses for comic effect. Wes Craven's Scream (written by Kevin Williamson) movies, starting in 1996, featured teenagers who were fully aware of, and often made reference to, the history of horror movies, and mixed ironic humour with the shocks. Along with I Know What You Did Last Summer (written by Kevin Williamson as well) and Urban Legend, they re-ignited the dormant slasher film genre.
is a 2005 horror film and sequel to Saw. It was directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by himself and the first film's co-writer Leigh Whannell, and stars Tobin Bell, Donnie Wahlberg, and Shawnee Smith. Saw II was released in North America on October 28, 2005. Tobin Bell was nominated for "Best Villain" at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards for his role as Jigsaw in the film.
The film features the Jigsaw Killer being apprehended by the police,
but trapping the arresting officer in one of his own games while showing
another "game" of eight people—including the officer's son in progress
on TV monitors at another location. It also explores some of the
Jigsaw's back story, providing a partial
explanation for why he chose to become "Jigsaw".
Upon release, Saw II received mostly mixed reviews from film
critics. Some dismissed the film as being a "Se7en knockoff", "lacking style and plot" and
some revolting over the "explicit gore and torture scenes", while others
praised it as being a "worthy follow-up" and "providing plenty of what
fans of the first expected". Despite negative reviews Saw II was a
financial success grossing $31,725,652 its opening weekend, recouping
its $4 million budget. The film currently is the highest grossing
(domestically) Saw film to date.
Saw II was released in New
Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom on October 28, 2005; and November 17, 2005
in Australia.
The original teaser poster which showed two severed fingers was
rejected by the MPAA. Since the poster was already released and
managed to 'slip by' the MPAA, they issued a release stating the poster
was not approved and was unacceptable. Lionsgate then removed the
poster from their websites.[2]Tobin Bell was nominated for "Best Villain" at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards for his role as Jigsaw,[3] though the award went to Hayden Christensen for his role in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.[4]
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Scary Movie:
is a 2000 satirical comedy film
directed by Keenen
Ivory Wayans, as part of Wayans Bros. Entertainment. It is
an American dark comedy which heavily parodies
the horror, slasher, and mystery
genres. Several mid- and late-90s films are spoofed, most predominantly
Scream and I
Know What You Did Last Summer, along with The Sixth Sense,
The Usual
Suspects, The
Matrix and The Blair
Witch Project, .
The tagline reads "No mercy. No shame. No sequel.", the last
reference being an ironic nod towards the tendency of popular horror
movies becoming cash cow franchises. 2001 saw the release of Scary Movie 2,
whose tagline stated "We lied". Later video covers of the first
film frequently drop the tagline's third statement. Scary Movie
was followed by two more sequels Scary Movie 3
(2003), and Scary
Movie 4Scream, which was also released through Dimension (2006). Its title serves as a homage to the production
title of An 18-year-old girl named Drew Decker (Carmen Electra) receives a threatening phone call while home alone one night. In an opening which closely mirrors Scream, Drew is chased outside by her killer, who then rips off her sweater and skirt, leaving her clothed in her white bra and thong. She is then stabbed in the breast (revealing she has fake boobs), hit by a car driven by her father and then killed by the killer.
The next day, Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), meets up with her boyfriend Bobby Prinze (Jon Abrahams) and her friends, Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans), Greg Phillipe (Lochlyn Munro), and Buffy Gilmore (Shannon Elizabeth). Various news teams - including hack reporter Gail Hailstorm (Cheri Oteri) - converge on the school in the wake of Drew's brutal death. Gail hooks up with Buffy's mentally disabled brother Doofy (Dave Sheridan), hoping to milk the facts out of him. Cindy realizes that Drew's murder occurred exactly one year after she and her friends accidentally killed a man during a wild car ride. Unwilling to face incarceration, the group dumped the body off a nearby pier - but not without robbing him blind first.
30 Days of Night: Dark Days:
is a 2010 American horror film based on
the comic book miniseries of the same name.[1]
It was directed by and written by Ben Ketai, alongside co-writer Steve Niles.[2]
It is a sequel to the 2007 film, 30 Days of Night.[3]
It’s been a year since the Alaskan town of Barrow’s population was
decimated by vampires during its annual month long sunset. Riddled with
grief over the death of her husband, bound by nightmares and void of all
emotions beyond hate and sorrow, Stella (Kiele Sanchez) has
spent the past months traveling the world, trying to convince others
that vampires exist.
Constantly feeling as though she is being hunted, Stella is well
aware the impending threat on her life, the death of Eben having taken
from her her ability to feel emotions, leaving her feeling cold and
empty inside. Following instructions from a man named Dane, she
eventually ends up in Los
Angeles One night, while giving a lecture to an audience of people
with whom she hopes to convince that vampires exist and aware that they
attend when she speaks, she activates overhead ultraviolet lamps
that incinerate several of the
vampires in the audience before the humans. She is quickly arrested and
harassed by a man named Agent Norris who she learns is one of the human
followers of the vampires, placed to keep their activities covered up.
After they release her from custody she returns to her hotel to find
three people waiting for her; Paul (Rhys Coiro), Amber (Diora Baird) and
Todd (Harold
Perrineau) who had been sent by Dane to collect her in order to hunt
down the vampire queen Lilith, whom they are convinced once out of the
way, the vampires will fall into dormancy as she is responsible for
their every move and for keeping them hidden, when Stella asks if she is
responsible for the incident at Barrow and is notified that she was.
She is taken to meet Dane (Ben Cotton) and is
shocked to discover that he too is a vampire, though due to a
superficially inflicted wound he has maintained a grasp of humanity,
only drinking blood from packaged hospital stocks he keeps. At first
hesitant to join in on a plan to attack a vampire nest, Paul eventually
convinces Stella to join them, telling her of his daughter being killed
by one and his accusations of a vampire killing her resulting in a
divorce with his wife.
Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp:
(Go-sa 2 : Gyo-saeng-sil ) is a 2010 Korean horror film. The film was directed by Yoo Sun-dong and is about a group of high school students and teachers who get locked in the school after the swimming instructor is murdered. The film is a sequel to the 2008 film Death Bell.[3] The story is unrelated to the previous film
n South Korea, the high school student and swimmer Jeong Tae-yeon (Yoon Seung-ah)
is found dead in the pool, which is found as a suicide. Two years
later, teacher Park Eun-su (Hwang Jung Eum) joins the high school where Tae-yeon's
stepsister Lee Se-hui (Park
Ji-yeon) is haunted by nightmarish visions and is bullied by the
student Eom Ji-yun (Choi Ah-jin).
Eun-su finds it difficult to get respect in the classroom and is backed
up by an older teacher, Cha (Kim
Su-ro). Se-hui and her classmates are selected for an elite "study
camp" held at the school during the summer break where 30 students study
for their university entrance exams. The school's swimming trainer is
murdered in the showers, and the words "When an innocent mother is
killed, what son would not avenge her death?" found scrawled on a
blackboard. A voice warns the students that they'll all be killed unless
they can answer who is the murderer and why. The students and teachers
find they're locked in the school when more deaths begin to happen.
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