Post by pacinoyes on Jan 20, 2019 18:29:07 GMT
@tyler said something interesting in the Suspiria thread so I decided what the heck, let's make a new thread............ "I have no real affinity for the original (or for giallo films in general), so that may make a difference in my perception of the remake. I simply found Guadagnino's take on the story to be more elegant and engrossing."
This reminded me of music producer Robert "Mutt" Lange who singlehandedly created 2 pop music super powers Def Leppard and later his wife (at the time) Shania Twain - by in effect mixing genres with a pop sheen in his production style (ie you wouldnit call either of them a pure genre recording artist but a hybrid).
In music, that tends to work in popularity but how do you feel about it in movies, what works, what doesn't? Suspiria '18 isn't so much a horror movie to my eyes but closer to something say Kubrick may have made - sort of a historical drama with horror elements (although Kubrick made a horror movie that to me followed the template of the genre). I would say the original Suspiria '77 is a mash up too, often mistaken a pure horror or giallo - to me it's neither really, it's closer to a horror crossed with a fairy tale.
So what would you say are mixes that work and once that do not - or specific examples you liked - does comedy belong in horror at all or is that get your chocolate out of my peanut butter level stuff? What are two genres that are never mixed that should be? What about something like The Ninth Configuration which is all over the place and yet, quite logical and precise in what it's getting across.
This reminded me of music producer Robert "Mutt" Lange who singlehandedly created 2 pop music super powers Def Leppard and later his wife (at the time) Shania Twain - by in effect mixing genres with a pop sheen in his production style (ie you wouldnit call either of them a pure genre recording artist but a hybrid).
In music, that tends to work in popularity but how do you feel about it in movies, what works, what doesn't? Suspiria '18 isn't so much a horror movie to my eyes but closer to something say Kubrick may have made - sort of a historical drama with horror elements (although Kubrick made a horror movie that to me followed the template of the genre). I would say the original Suspiria '77 is a mash up too, often mistaken a pure horror or giallo - to me it's neither really, it's closer to a horror crossed with a fairy tale.
So what would you say are mixes that work and once that do not - or specific examples you liked - does comedy belong in horror at all or is that get your chocolate out of my peanut butter level stuff? What are two genres that are never mixed that should be? What about something like The Ninth Configuration which is all over the place and yet, quite logical and precise in what it's getting across.
