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Horror: the genre that refuses to die

The author of the article is Robbie Collin. It was published on 18 April, 2013, on the web site www.telegraph.co.uk. The article provides the information about the ever-changing face of Horror as an everlasting genre.

In the beginning of the article the author gives us the statistics of Horror films over the past 12 months. According to the article most of 57 new films were variations on well-worn themes, but the best one was The Cabin in the Woods by Drew Goddard.

The critic Robbie Collin says explains that watching a great horror film is like participating in a kind of rite, in which we can enjoy feeling unnerved, shocked and revolted. He also points what sets great horror cinema apart. It is the game we enter into with it, the temporary period of play-madness, can long outlast the experience of watching the film itself.

Further Collin says that The Cabin in the Woods is a remake of the grandfather of all cabin-in-the-woods films, Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981). Raimi’s original film was a shoestring and wasn't popular until its new screening in 1987. It is the best horror film. Collins adds that if The Cabin in the Woods sounded the death knell for the all-American scary movie, then The Evil Dead is the first truly global horror film.

Robbie Collin tells that horror as genre flourished in Britain after the Second World War, with The Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster; then the scariest blockbusters like God or the rule of law; The Exorcist (1973), Jaws (1975). Collin also adds that New European horror is deadly serious, socially conscious and often ultra-violent.

In conclusion the author says that yet there are some intensely spooky territories that remain as-yet uncharted. The films of the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul are good examples, where we can see the relationship with the supernatural that gods and demons. And Collin suggests that The Evil Dead would be re-remade.

Well, I am a big fan of horror films. I agree with Robbie Collin that Horror is an undying genre. These films are so exciting, and The Cabin in the Woods truly creates an unnerving atmosphere. Today with the technique development, such films are becoming more and more frightful; and it is great for me as a fan!