“Rob Zombie is out of step with the current climate of horror filmmaking. We live in a day and
“Rob Zombie is out of step with the current climate of horror filmmaking. We live in a day and age when horror films and superhero movies are the only universal truth at the box-office. These horror films almost unanimously make a profit because they’re cheap and teenagers have historically always flocked to the genre. But horror movies are in a conservative rut this decade. The term “elevated horror” has been bandied about for art-house directors like Robert Eggers (The Witch) and Ari Aster (Hereditary), who make bloated films that reach for the likes of Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski and land somewhere in the vein of slick student filmmaking that renders all of the psychological elements of their craft obvious and overwrought.“In the event of his new film 3 From Hell, Willow Catelyn Maclay takes a look at the complications of violence, family, and trauma in the outsider Horror films of Rob Zombie. -- source link
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