What are some horror movies that don't make any sense outside of a narrowly specific cultural context?
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I'm especially thinking of some bizzare foreign horror movies that didn't make sense to me and I figure there's gotta be some from my own (US) culture that just make 0 sense outside of the context of having been raised in this culture.
While admittedly it did make sense to me although I'm not the target audience, Get Out comes to mind.
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I'm especially thinking of some bizzare foreign horror movies that didn't make sense to me and I figure there's gotta be some from my own (US) culture that just make 0 sense outside of the context of having been raised in this culture.
Train to Busan is generally a good movie, but one scene involving passenger infighting is very much a statement on the country’s class warfare; so it may not make much sense to people otherwise.
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I've never heared of that before. Thanks!
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Whoa, no way. THAT'S why he's the Count? I thought it was a royalty/ bloodline thing.
In general, vampires existed to me as a commentary on colonialism, class, and the advantages to longevity. Vampires as "blood suckers of the poor", to quote Popa Wu, who was quoting Louis Farrakhan.
I didn't know the 'stop and count objects' element.
Question, though, as I think this through: would that not extend as an antisemitic trope?
(A half hour of reading later.)
TIL there is an antisemitic history to vampires.
"As rendered by Bram Stoker, the literary depiction of Count Dracula is deeply antisemitic, with roots in the long-standing blood libel against Jews and the antisemitic archetype of the wealth-hoarding degenerate." [2]
"Today, the vampire remains one of cinema’s most popular horror villains, and the connections to prejudice are largely forgotten, or erased. They still lurk around the edges of the genre though, as generations of creators have either furtively invited them in or tried to put a stake through their heart." [1]
"The symbolic link between Jews and blood through a history of blood libel and the depiction of Jews as alien and parasitic are seen the main themes that allowed the merging of the two image." [3]
[1] Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100
[2] The Antisemitic History of Vampires
[3] How Vampires Became Jewish
[4] Blood Libel: The Anti-Semitic Roots of Vampirism
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I'm especially thinking of some bizzare foreign horror movies that didn't make sense to me and I figure there's gotta be some from my own (US) culture that just make 0 sense outside of the context of having been raised in this culture.
Any movie that relies on "The call is coming from inside the house" trope.
WTF is a landline?
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Have you seen Tucker & Dale vs Evil? It's not quite the same but I think there's probably a lot of overlap between people who enjoyed that movie and Cabin in the Woods.
Both are great movies, Cabin definitely is more of an "homage to the genre" while Tucker is a "comedy about the genre" but really good in its own right. Both still have a good horror theme to it but Cabin was more about touching all the tropes while still being a "standard horror". Tucker and dale is just funny.
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Both are great movies, Cabin definitely is more of an "homage to the genre" while Tucker is a "comedy about the genre" but really good in its own right. Both still have a good horror theme to it but Cabin was more about touching all the tropes while still being a "standard horror". Tucker and dale is just funny.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Part of why I associate the two movies is just the Joss Whedon* (who produced and co-wrote Cabin in the Woods) connection with Alan Tudyk (playing Tucker from T&DvE), Amy Acker, and Fran Kranz (playing Wendy Lin and Marty Mikalski, respectively, in Cabin). The three also appear together in a 2009 series created by Whedon called Dollhouse alongside several other familiar actors from some of his other shows like Firefly and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
That's all beside the point though, just something I find interesting (in spite of the asterisk). Tucker & Dale has some good genre-aware winks to the audience in the same way as Cabin but much more limited scope.
* Obligatory mention that he's a couple different kinds of asshole.
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Any movie that relies on "The call is coming from inside the house" trope.
WTF is a landline?
What if the cell phone was triangulated to come from your house??
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I'm especially thinking of some bizzare foreign horror movies that didn't make sense to me and I figure there's gotta be some from my own (US) culture that just make 0 sense outside of the context of having been raised in this culture.
I wonder if there are any horror movies about fan death as the theme.
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Any movie that relies on "The call is coming from inside the house" trope.
WTF is a landline?
Ask pretty much anyone outside the US.
