| Giganticface |
04-21-2015 09:26 PM |
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Originally Posted by Roiffalo
(Post 993645)
I don't know if I understand what you mean by redneck genre here...
But I do really love the idea for the movie, it being the idea of a haunted house alone as the scare. All the interviews and what not making it clear that these things can be taken too far and have gone too far. In that view it would have been fine without any supernatural aspect (if there even was, it was a bit vague to say if it was or not), but at least they kept it minimal.
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Sorry, i'm kind of a genre classification nerd - both for music and for movies. I did the genre definitions for http://screambox.com (also happened to build the site :) ... Btw, they don't necessarily apply the genres how I recommended).
I would classify films in the Redneck subgenre if the primary source of fear is caused by the protagonists being in an unfamiliar location, and being harassed by the locals of that location. That could range from total freaks like The Hills Have Eyes and Wrong Turn, to actual rednecks like Deliverance, to simply country bumpkins like Straw Dogs. Since the concept is similar, I would also include primitive humans like Offspring, Italian cannibal films, and even hoodie horror, like Ils and Eden Lake.
In Houses October Built, the threat doesn't really come from the haunts themselves, but from the local freaks that work and hang out there -- starting with the scene in the bar where the locals start shit, to them hanging outside the haunts staring them down, to finally tracking them down and capturing them. The characters actively put themselves in unfamiliar locations, and debate whether to continue the journey. If I remember correctly, however, the film does manage to avoid the trope of being stuck in that location because their car broke down. |
