that’s not news cinema Fear is one of the genres most open to innovation and experimentation. But within two years, this clearing crystallized in a special way. match skin care (2022), Outer Waters (2022), We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021), Tell me (2022) and the project back rooms. All these horror films are distinguished by their experimentation (narrative and stylistic) and they have a lot in common.
First, they’re run by a very young new generation of internet-connected filmmakers. most of the arrivals YouTube and in some cases they are making their first movies after a long experience making videos for channels with millions of followers.. All of them incorporated internet language into their movies. And they’ve all seen how their movies have been nurtured and grown thanks to the noise on the forums (especially Reddit) and social networks.
visual and audio language
The second port is the most important. All these directors in their films visual and auditory language, in most cases, agreeing on things like a conceptual and stylistic update of the text images found (image found), a dreamy charm and liminal spaces, the strangeness and eerieness of abandoned places, and the organic fusion of the texture of certain images of the Internet (most strange). The way he intersects horror movies with experimental cinema is unexpected and irresistible..
The third point doesn’t work for all the movies in this article, but it does for the majority. Most of the directors of these films queer and so do movies in different ways. In an interview with Rogerebert.com, director Kyle Edward Ball skin carethe pioneer of this new experimental horror cinema affirms: “With the advent of movies like: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair And Outer Waters there seem to be other filmmakers queer horror movies that make weird movies like me. It’s like we’re in a new kind of movie movement queer”. The final link between these filmmakers is a projection of the future: These directors will take control of horror movies for the next few years. After small movies, some are already spearheading new projects with godparents like A24 and James Wan.
skin carepioneer
It all starts with skin care (2022). funded by Crowdfunding cost $15,000. Kyle Edward Ball Filmed in a week in his native Canada with a small crew. skin care natural evolution of another project of the filmmaker: YouTube channel @BitesizedNightmares. recreates subscribers’ nightmares in videos. It is a representation of childhood fear of the dark at night. Two children wake up at dawn. His home becomes an alien place where objects change and sounds become abstract. Kyle Edward Ball captures this nocturnal journey in long static shots, almost without light, punctuated by horrific visual and audio explosions. skin care It arises from the Internet, but requires a concentration from another era. It needs to be seen with good sound in the dark. And it’s either love or hate. But it’s a phenomenon. It was released theatrically and grossed more than two million dollars before reaching the United States. How is it explained? Internet once again, largely due to the film being leaked while it was going through the online edition of a festival, skin care It went viral on TikTok. And after it was published, the forums were filled with theories about it and Twitter became polarized.
internet in the center
Like their director, Kyle Edward Ball. Tell me And back rooms They also come from YouTube. In fact, their channels are more successful than yours. managers Tell me, the youtubers Australians Danny and Michael PhilippouThey have nearly seven million subscribers on their @Therackaracka channel, where they experiment with humor, visual effects, and horror. Tell me, The film, about a group of children summoning a spirit, premiered at Sundance. The expectation is too great and without being as experimental as skin care, critics focus on their writers’ ability to tell a typical story of the genre in today’s visual codes. The Sundance website described it this way: “It effortlessly combines the spookiness of a ghost story with the modern sensibility of a horror thriller for the Insta generation.”
jump Kane Parsons From YouTube to movies, among other things, it’s all the more amazing for being 17 years old. his series back roomsIt’s a phenomenon (over two million subscribers) hosted on @kanepixels. These are the shorts where he opens the door to another dimension and experiments with liminal spaces in a way that is both startling and terrifying. Something so viral and powerful could not have escaped the notice of James Wan, who worked with A24 to produce a film version of the series under Parsons’ direction.
Virality and contagion
Outer Waters And We’re All Going to the World’s Fair they also respond to the need to experiment with terrorism. These are two very small films that create expectations in networks by setting up different circuits. The success of the first images found comes with very distorted images, a bit of smearing skin care: the legend of the little movie that is very scary. We’re All Going to the World’s FairIt is the most complex film in this article, which premiered at the Sundance festival.. The formal experiment is accompanied by a greater thematic ambition and emotional charge. In the research process to make his movie, Jane SchonbrumThe non-binary filmmaker found first-person references on YouTube that helped him identify his main character. We’re All Going to the World’s Fairwhere he tackles an issue as complex as dysphoria, based on the experience of a teenager participating in an online role-playing game. Schoenbrum just shot for the A24 I Saw the TV Shining, on an already generous budget. The future belongs to them (though it will only be released in theaters in Spain) Tell me).