![]() ![]() Whether it’s imagery of long sustained shots, or moments of complete emotional exhaustion, or some character really hitting the “message” loudly, it’s all a bit obvious now and more than a bit silly. It was an unnecessary line of demarcation that carried unsubtle snobbish message that “regular” horror was not artful and for the more common, and therefore stupider, person.īut this fake cul-de-sac of movies does have some signature elements and recurring tropes that are ripe for parody. Obviously folks bristled at this because all of those techniques and topics have been in horror films since the beginning of horror films with NOSFERATU and THE CABINET OF DR. Basically if a horror film was put out by A24, Annapurna, or Neon in that period, chances are it would be considered elevated horror. “Elevated Horror” was a gross misnomer applied to a crop of horror films (made mostly from 2005 to 2020) that tended to utilize a lot of arthouse techniques like minimalist dialogue, artificially constructed but beautiful framing, abstract imagery/dream sequences, and lack of concrete resoltion, all while dealing with deeper psychological and/or social issues like race, gender, trauma, and such. This particular sub-genre may be a bit too inside baseball to have broad appeal, but it would most likely be a cult hit amongst film festivals and genre events. Here are five horror sub-genres that are ripe for a spoof and could produce some excellent parodic movies. The titles that have found the greatest success, though, have been those that zero in on a particular sub-genre (still occasionally going out to other types of films and stories), but nailing the particular tropes of things like slashers, zombie films, and so on. At both its height of popularity and even in the waxing days of spoofs (with… VAMPIRES SUCK and the aforementioned SCARY MOVIE sequels), horror movies have always been ripe for such farce, leading to some genuine classics like YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES. THEY CAME TOGETHER, NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE, and more have come around in the past 20 years to show that blood still flowed in the veins and that reports of the demise of the parody may have been premature. Those movies are trash.īut death ain’t what it used to be, and it certainly was never too permanent in genre trends. It was “remember this?” but without any further depth or point or even a joke. The murderers appeared to be filmmakers Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, whose oeuvre included EPIC MOVIE, DISASTER MOVIE, MEET THE SPARTANS, DATE MOVIE, and whose idea of parody had devolved into simply repeating catch phrases and recreating costumes from popular titles and that basically being the joke…occasionally followed by maybe a fart or kick in the balls if one is lucky. 1977’s THE KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE announced a new breed of humorists (and one eventual, literal, un-convicted murderer) with John Landis, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker putting together a loose confederation of oddball sketches and then a prolonged spoof of ENTER THE DRAGON titled “A Fistful Of Yen” (Yen being Japanese currency, not Chinese despite it taking place in China/Hong Kong with kung fu…but who could’ve foreseen that Landis would not have great relations with Asian people?!?).įrom there came works from ZAZ team like AIRPLANE!, THE NAKED GUN, TOP SECRET!, BASEKETBALL, and more before eventually they devolved into arch-conservatives ( AN AMERICAN CAROL is…not great!) and then became fairly indistinguishable from their own pale imitators with their work on SCARY MOVIE 3, 4, and V.īy that point spoof movies, despite yielding lots of fun titles-like I’M GONNA GET YOU SUCKA and DON’T BE A MENACE TO SOUTH CENTRAL WHILE DRINKING YOUR JUICE IN THE HOOD from the Wayans Family, and a the vast majority of Mel Brooks’ filmography including BLAZING SADDLES, SPACEBALLS, and ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS-was soon approach a bit of a death knell. Of course parodies would become more regular with popular titles getting sent up in cartoons, vaudeville, the Borscht Belt, comic books, and more over the years. Preceding both HAWK JONES and BUGSY MALONE by decades, Porter found it uproarious to mock his landmark western movie by casting children in all of the roles. ![]() Porter parodied his own 1903 hit film THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY with the 1905 short THE LITTLE TRAIN ROBBERY. ![]() The spoof movie has been around since about the beginning of history when Edwin S. ![]()
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