Insights from the Cinematic World: horror films

The Neon Demon

In 2010, director Nicolas Winding Refn dazzled viewers around the world with his Los Angeles-set crime thriller Drive. Now, NWR returns to the “city of dreams” for an incisive and unsettling look at its intense and often vicious culture of beauty in the bold new horror thriller The Neon Demon.

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The Lazarus Effect

The story builds on a mysterious medical reality that has resulted in more than 3 dozen documented cases of the so-called Lazarus Phenomenon – when a patient spontaneously returns to life even after resuscitation has failed, named for the Biblical figure who rose from the dead.

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The Shining

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd. The film is based on the novel of the same name, by Stephen King, about a writer with a wife and young son who accepts the job of an off-season caretaker at an isolated hotel.

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On trouvera une analyse de l'esthétique des films de Wes Craven dans Le Cinéma d'horreur et ses figures (Paris, PUF, 2005), qui montre comment les films de ce réalisateur sont ordonnés autour d'une réflexion sur « les puissances de l'image ».

Wes Craven

Wesley Earl “Wes” Craven (born August 2, 1939) is an American film director and writer, perhaps best known as the director of many horror films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare

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The film has had many planned release dates, since it first began production back in 2006. Its initial planned US release was February 8, 2008 which was changed to February 22, 2008. It was then moved to August 22, 2008, and then moved again to April 10, 2009. Then it got pushed back to a January 1, 2010. It has been confirmed that the US release date has been moved to October 1, 2010.

Case 39

Case 39 is a 2009 horror thriller film directed by Christian Alvart and stars Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, and Ian McShane. The film was shot in Vancouver in late 2006, and was scheduled to be released in August 2008, but it was pushed back to April 10, 2009, and then to January 1, 2010.

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