In the beginning it was Paris Hilton. Wax mask, in 2005. His character – blond, not particularly smart and scantily clad – died among the wax zombies after a futile and desperate escape after attempting to camp in a tent. Just one of many doll women mass horror, which used them for shock value and for some nude scenes that always look good between one blow and the next.
Kim Kardashian chooses horror for her small screen debut
Now, after a long break, it-girls are returning to horror cinema, and this is no coincidence. Just think of Kim Kardashian, the Paris Hilton of the 1920s, who tried her hand at acting again and threw herself into it. American Horror Story: Delicate after a disastrous 2008 experience in a parody film Disaster movie. In the new season with the support Emma Roberts AND Dear Delevingneplays the main character’s girlfriend who is desperately trying to get pregnant.
Addison Rae and Charli XCX follow suit.
She’s not the only one. It also approaches the world of horror cinema. Addison Raesocial media star has rediscovered the singer and actress who will support Patrick Dempsey on Thanksgiving Day, directed by Eli Roth, released in the US in November. It’s still Charlie XCX will join Barbie Ferreira in the remake Faces of Death. In short, horror has arrived in the third millennium and has a rosy hue.
New horror cinema
In the middle is a slow but important change affecting the horror genre, which had remained stagnant for many years. mistreated considered minor and is now experiencing a real resurgence. Just think about the predecessor (and therefore obscure) Jennifer’s body, a 2009 film directed by Karyn Kusama and written by Diablo Code (unsurprisingly, it’s two women) that takes the traditional stylistic tropes of 1980s commercial horror and flips them by making its protagonist a popular, scantily clad, gruesome cheerleader who kills children . without any feeling of guilt. The first attempt, which was actually revived a decade later and finally appreciated.
Mia Goth, Pearl and Social Horror
And now? Horror cinema is exploding and gaining dignity. These are no longer second-rate films in which aspiring actresses and directors can work on themselves in the hope of being noticed, but an interesting and exciting field for experimentation. Interpretations Mia Gothqueen of horror with Anya Taylor-Joy, in Ti West’s trilogy of films (X, Pearl and MaXXXine, the latter coming soon), will have his fans shouting Oscars and making noise because the Academy historically doesn’t care about genre films. After Jordan PeeleHorror on social themes is also becoming increasingly widespread, embodying various types of discomfort (from mourning to lost motherhood through discrimination) among monsters, aliens and some kind of ghosts.
Horror woman from object to plot
As society becomes more aware of certain issues and women finally take the stage, horror follows them, explores them, puts them at the center of its stories. Don’t like it anymore passive objects or stupid monsters of sensuality, covered in blood, but how active itemswith their own disorders, sometimes characteristic of the male sex, sometimes typical of women.
The Barbarian’s Case
There are many examples. One of the latest and most successful is Barbarian, a 2022 film directed and written by Zach Cregger and starring Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård and Justin Long. In this film, a monstrous mother, an accident and the result of trauma inflicted on her by a man, lurks in the basement, capturing anyone unconscious enough to enter her space. She just wants the children to be looked after, and the only one who can truly understand her is the main character, who in turn moves in a world of strangers (masculine gender). not random) potentially dangerous and selfish, innocent actors.
The Future of Horror
Even if the theme is not purely feminine or feminist, the protagonists of new millennium horror films are seen as real, nuanced, deep characters, capable of experiencing a diverse range of emotions, defending themselves, staying clothed and, whatever, knows, even to survive, using only your strengths and your ingenuity, as for example in No one will save youexperimental film directed by Brian Duffield with a very good Kaitlyn Dever, or what Production, the latest installation in the Predator franchise starring Amber Midgrom. These heroines or anti-heroines are just one of the changes in a genre poised to take center stage, a favorite field of testing and trying, chewing and experiments.