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Audition,
Wrong Turn, House of 1000 Corpses,
The
Devil's Rejects, Wolf Creek
(2005)
A larger trend is a return to the extreme, graphic
violence that characterized much of the type of
low-budget, exploitation horror from the Seventies and
the post-Vietnam years.
Films like Audition (1999),
Wrong Turn (2003), House of 1000 Corpses (2003), The
Devil's Rejects and the Australian film Wolf Creek
(2005), took their cues from The Last House on the Left
(1972), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), and The
Hills Have Eyes (1977). The latter two have also been
remade: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003, and The
Hills Have Eyes in 2006 both followed by a prequel in
the same year and a sequel in the following year.
An
extension of this trend was the emergence of a type of
horror with emphasis on depictions of torture, suffering
and violent deaths, (variously referred to as "horror
porn", "torture porn", Splatterporn, and even "gore-nography")
with films such as FeardotCom, Turistas, Captivity, and
most recently Untraceable, WΔZ, Saw, Hostel, Pathology
and their respective sequels in particular being
frequently singled out as examples of emergence of this
sub-genre.
Horror film - Rob Zombie
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