Mostly all of the recent films that are out today have become subjects of hybrid, and this is becoming a very popular thing. A hybrid is basically a cross of two genres in a film. Some examples of these hybrids are a Love Comedy or a Comedy Horror. These are both very popular hybrid genres. Here are some films that fall in to these categories:
- Love Actually
- Maid Of Honour
- Shaun Of The Dead
- Scary Movie 1-2-3-4
These are all really good films but the two films im going to be focussing on are of the hybrid genres Horror War and Horror Fantasy these films are
- Hell Boy 2 The Golden Army
- Dog Soldiers
The first film I will be talking about is Hell Boy. I really like the start of this film because it starts in a flashback of hell boy’s childhood with his father. The whole moral of the film is the mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity, in order to rule the earth. So Hell Boy and his team must save the world from the rebellious creatures. The genre of this film is obviously a hybrid genre of Horror Fantasy which you would obviously associate with things like, Mythical Creatures, Horns, Royalty, Lightening and Fire all of these things are in Hell Boy. The film its self is directed by as man called Guillermo Del Toro who has also directed films such as Blade 2 and Mimic both films were at one point raging blockbusters.
The second film I will talk about is Dog Soldiers. This film has a really affective opening because the scene opens in a tent and it’s a man and women on a tent about to have sex but as the man unzips the women’s trousers the tent starts to unzip,and in comes a blood thirsty wolf violently tearing the couple apart with its bright white teeth. The scene then cuts and skips to a group of army cadets who are on a training mission in the highlands of Scotland
Dog Soldiers is a British film with a British cast and also the setting is traditional British obviously with it been set in Scotland the key British factors of film are first of all the setting when it opens up in the Scottish highlands which also gives away the subject of horror because it goes form a very peaceful set to a violent vulgar vicious atmosphere with the were wolves and everything, another point of Britain in this film is the accents of these people they are from different places in England. A pure British accent is quite rare in today’s modern film industry.
The directors of filming today are been rather creative, and are trying new filming techniques one of these major techniques are Hybrid. Making two genres become one because of this the boundaries of genres have become very blurred. I think directors are doing this so that they can make you want to watch there films by making it look like a. different genre to what it actually is.
Horror has always been my favourite genre for the best part of my life. This is because of the gripping suspense that they give off its just absolutely brilliant the fact that one or two scenes can make you jump out of your socks. My two favourite horror films of all time are:
I Like these two films because they are alike in some ways but the biggest reason is that they actually make you believe that these situations could actually happen in real life. In Saw 5 it’s about a group of people that get kidnapped my a serial killer and have to face a series of games to save there lives. But the thing that gets me is that this could actually happen. The second film The Descent is about a group of girls that go on a caving expedition and then get trapped In a rock fall and then get eaten by blood thirsty cave men. Its really scary and maybe in some ways a bit silly but it actually does make you really anxious of going caving.
The horror genre actually came from books back in the medieval times, and has grown into to a national film phenomenon, but it originated from books and pictures. The subject of horror comes from old myths and legends for example Dracula and Frankenstein but as the genre has come more modern and virtual, It has come from more Non Fiction things such as werewolves and monsters and all things like that. In the last few centuries or so Real Life horror movies have been coming into the Box Office generation these more commenly evolve around the subjects of Ghosts, Murder and Torture. Some of these films are:
- The Exorcist
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Hostel (Was only based on a real story wasn’t exactly how it happened)
These are all rather disturbing films but I would really recommend watching them there really good.
In conclusion I wouldn’t actually say that the blurring of genres is really a bad thing because it shows that the filming generation is progressing and in a few more years something else is going to happen and were not going to know what it is until we actually come into awarness of it.
By Joshua Petrini
