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Post-horror

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Post-horror is a term used by some film critics to designate a subgenre of, or an emerging tendency within, the horror film genre in the late 2010s. Post-horror films may be said to share the following common traits:

  1. Low-budget or indie productions
  2. Made in the late 2010s
  3. Reacting against conventional horror films, e.g. by avoiding "jump scares" or by avoiding appealing to fear all together, thus breaking the horror genre from within
  4. In some way still keeping a reference to the usual exspectations of a horror movie, e.g. by having a conventional title or by dealing with conventional horror objects such as ghosts, demons etc.

Post-horror was first proposed by film critic Steve Rose in an article in The Guardian in July 2017:

What happens when you stray beyond those cast-iron conventions and wander off into the darkness? You might find something even scarier. You might find something that’s not scary at all. What could be emerging here is a new sub-genre. Let’s call it "post-horror".[1]

Trey Edward Shults, director of It Comes at Night (2017), cites Roman Polanski's "apartment trilogy" consisting of Repulsion (1965), Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Tenant (1976) as an influence for his post-horror film.

According to Steve Rose, the production company A24 Films has been a forerunner in spreading the post-horror tendency: "If anyone’s pushing horror into new realms, it’s them".[1]

Films often considered "post-horror"[edit]

In his original article in The Guardian, Steve Rose mentions the following candidates for post-horror films:[1]

Other films which could be designated "post-horror" include:

Criticism[edit]

The term "post-horror" has been critisised by other film critics and by the "horror community" for being an example of journalist sensationalism or "cultural snobbery", for being hipsterish, and for being "pointless", i.e. for not designating anything new. According to Wales Arts Review,

all Rose [Steve Rose who introduced the term] is really saying in his article is “I don’t like horror, so these particular films must be something else.” Rose writes that “more than any other genre, horror movies are governed by rules and codes,” which is both simultaneously incorrect and bafflingly ignorant of genre. Genres are not fixed entities.[2]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rose, Steve (2017-07-06). "How post-horror movies are taking over cinema". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  2. "Cinema | A Response to Post-Horror - Wales Arts Review". Wales Arts Review. 2017-07-09. Retrieved 2018-07-23.


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