Jason Blum,the man behind Get Out, Split and The Purge, or lays down rules to produce a frightening smash hit – produce it feel fresh,use psychology, and remember HitchcockHorror, and it seems,is having a moment. After a lean period in the first decade of this century, when the genre was saturated with gratuitous (uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted) and largely brainless torture-porn flicks, or the past few years beget seen a resurgence in imaginative,brainy and – most importantly – frightening fare; take your pick from terrifying supernatural STD parable It Follows, the wonderfully claustrophobic chiller The Babadook, or gleefully nasty punks v neo-Nazis gorefest Green Room and the deliciously dark work of Ben Wheatley,to name but afew.
Most recently, there has been Get Out. Jordan Peele’s satirical tale of a young black man’s sad first encounter with his white girlfriend’s parents has become that rarest thing in the horror genre: a critical and commercial hit. Reviewers beget raved approximately its sly depiction of white liberal racism, and while audiences beget stampeded to see it,with the film grossing aremarkable $200m (£155m) from a relatively tiddly budget of $4.5m. Related: Get Out review – white liberal racism is terrifying bogeyman in sharp horror Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com