Generation Terror – FrightFest 204 Movie Review
Director: Sarah Appleton, Phillip Escott
Plot: Horror bleeds into the 21st Century in an incisive documentary looking back at the late 1990s film industry on a global scale to find out what happened at the turn of the millennium to allow for the huge wealth of horror films flooding out from all corners of the globe.
Runtime: 1 Hour 41 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Verdict on Generation Terror
Generation Terror is a documentary exploring the rise of horror style in the 1990s. It presents a change in the system even if the problems with promoting the movies. However, the change in development and more styles getting embraced meant the change going into the 2000s.
The documentary explores the reality of real life reflecting on what the audience wants from horror movies. It shows that it changed and pushed the boundaries of what is acceptable in horror movies and how the next era pushed the limits to what we know now.
This shows us the change in mentality toward horror and even the modern struggles in studios and festivals believing in horror movies. We get a host of different interviews who have a host of different theories. It jumps around different cultures with different opinions and feels more like a celebration of horror than answering questions. This brings us fresh eyes to how creators made horror that affects the people they know, rather than a wider audience. It is interesting to learn how people see horror and what they take out of every movie.
Final Thoughts –Generation Terror is an interesting journey through the generational change in horror movies.
