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The Canadian film Cube (1997) was perhaps one of the
few horror films of the 1990s to be based around a
relatively novel concept; it was able to evoke a wide
range of different fears, and touched upon a variety of
social themes (such as fear of bureaucracy) that had
previously been unexplored.
Two main problems pushed horror backward during this
period: firstly, the horror genre wore itself out with
the proliferation of non stop slasher and gore films in
the eighties. Secondly, the adolescent audience which
feasted on the blood and morbidity of the previous
decade grew up, and the replacement audience for films
of an imaginative nature were being captured instead by
the explosion of science-fiction and fantasy, courtesy
of the special effects possibilities with
computer-generated imagery.
Horror film - Peter Jackson's Braindead
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