David Roche, Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don’t They Do It Like They Used To?
2015; Association Française d'Etudes Américaines; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.4000/transatlantica.7420
ISSN1765-2766
Autores Tópico(s)Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
ResumoIn his latest book, David Roche compares the horror films of the 1970s with their remakes of the 2000s to answer the question which features as the book's subtitle: Why don't they do it like they used to?With disarming honesty as well as a rigorous theoretical framework, David Roche sets out to investigate why the remakes seemed to him less "disturbing" than the originals, using the criteria delineated by Laurent Jullier in Qu'est ce qu'un bon film?(15), especially that of cohesion.His analysis centers on a thorough comparison between four cult horror films of the 1970s-The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974), The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven, 1977), Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978), Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)-and their remakes (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Marcus Nispel, 2003; The Hills Have Eyes, Alexandre Aja, 2006; Dawn of the Dead, Zack Snyder, 2004; Halloween, Rob Zombie, 2007), although he covers many other horror films as well.As such, Roche's book is a necessary read for anyone interested in horror but also in the evolution and strategies of contemporary American cinema. 2The first chapter, entitled "Text, Subtext and Context", builds on Robin Wood's famous article, "The American Nightmare" (in Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan, 1986, 70-80), which saw the horror movie as the most progressive genre of the 1970s.The chapter
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