Art horror

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Italian film Suspiria (1977) and its 2018 remake have both been described as artistic horror films for their stylistic cinematography.[1][2][3]

Art or arthouse horror (sometimes called elevated horror)[4][5][6] is a sub-genre of both horror films and art-films. It explores and experiments with the artistic uses of horror.

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Characteristics[]

Art-horror films tend to rely on atmosphere building, psychological character development, cinematic style and philosophical themes for effect - rather than straightforward scares.[2][5] 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.[citation needed]

Art-horror films have been described as "a fascinating byproduct of the collision of art and commerce, of genre convention and personal vision".[2] Historically, the genre was loosely related to J-horror and Italian Giallo.[2] In the 2000s, a movement of transgressive films in France known as "New French Extremity" has been described as an arthouse horror film movement.[7]

Although commentators have suggested some horror films have exemplified qualities applicable to "art horror" for many decades, the term became more widely used during the 2010s, with independent film company A24 credited with popularising the genre.[5][6][8] The term "elevated horror" was first used in the early 2010s, and subsequently has been the subject of criticism and debate among film critics as it became more widely used.[9][10][11]

Notable art horror films[]

20th century[]

  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)[1]
  • Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)[1]
  • The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927)[12]
  • M (Fritz Lang, 1931)[12]
  • Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)[13]
  • The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)[1]
  • Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)[13]
  • The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)[2]
  • I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)[13]
  • Black Sunday (Mario Bava, 1960)[1]
  • Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960)[1]
  • Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)[1]
  • The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)[1]
  • Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962)[1]
  • Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava, 1964)[1]
  • Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1965)[1]
  • Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)[1]
  • Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)[1]
  • Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)[14]
  • Images (Robert Altman, 1972)[2]
  • Don't Look Now (Nicloas Roeg, 1973)[1]
  • Ganja and Hess (Bill Gunn, 1973)[15]
  • Sisters (Brian De Palma, 1973)[12]
  • Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)[1]
  • Opening Night (John Cassavetes, 1977)[16]
  • Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)[1]
  • Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)[1]
  • The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)[12]
  • The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara, 1979)[17][18]
  • Vengeance Is Mine (Shōhei Imamura, 1979)[12]
  • Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)[19]
  • The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)[1]
  • Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)[2]
  • Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)[20]
  • The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983) [21][22]
  • The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988)[12]
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992)[12]
  • Cronos (Guillermo del Toro, 1993)[12]
  • Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)[23]
  • Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997)[12]
  • Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997)[24]
  • Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)[2]

21st century[]

  • Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)[1]
  • High Tension (Alexandre Aja, 2003)[7]
  • Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)[25]
  • Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)[1]
  • Frontier(s) (Xavier Gens, 2007)[7]
  • Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)[26]
  • Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009)[27]
  • Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009)[28]
  • Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)[29]
  • A Field in England, (Ben Wheatley, 2013)[1]
  • Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)[30]
  • Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)[2]
  • Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)[2]
  • The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014)[31]
  • It Follows (David Robert Mitchell), 2014)[32]
  • The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)[5]
  • The Neon Demon (Nicholas Winding Refn, 2016)[30]
  • Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno, 2016)[33]
  • Raw (Julia Ducournau, 2016)[34]
  • Kizumonogatari (Tatsuya Oishi, 2016)[35]
  • Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)[30]
  • Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)[36]
  • One Cut of the Dead (, 2017)[37]
  • Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018)[38]
  • A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018)[10]
  • Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018)[39]
  • Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018)[14][40]
  • Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018)[41]
  • Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)[5][42]
  • The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)[27]
  • Saint Maud (Rose Glass, 2019)[4]
  • Roh (Emir Ezwan, 2019)[43]
  • Impetigore (Joko Anwar, 2019)[44]
  • Relic (Natalie Erika James, 2020)[4]
  • Cryptozoo (Dash Shaw, 2021)[45]
  • Lamb (Valdimar Jóhannsson, 2021)[46]

Notable directors[]

See also[]

References[]

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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

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