Horror appears to be a natural next step for the 44-year-old director, who has spoken of his love for 1974 gore classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and is known for his penchant for on-screen violence.
Cameron must have jumped at the chance to take on a sequel to Alien, Ridley Scott's pioneering slasher flick in space, because the British film-maker's 1979 sci-fi horror appears to have been built with exactly the same toolbox.
Now, we're seeing instances of folk horror appear again in theaters with The Heretics and Children of the Corn: Runaway and on TV with The Mist, American Gods, and American Horror Story: Cult.
Homages to horror films appeared in videos, too: Quba Tuakli mirrored the bleak and brutalist sound of Rocks FOE's Law with a startling black and white video.
Every summer, horror stories appear in the news after tales of chip-thieving are beefed up with accounts of tortoise and chihuahua murders.
Our horror of appearing uncouth leads us all -- kings and commoners alike -- to opt for the ubiquitous adverb instead of the terse, accurate adjective.
This was the horror of appearing scared of al-Qaida or whomsoever the US decided was the enemy – while appearing, like the great appeaser of the second world war, to have rationalised this fear into some kind of specious policy.
The film's major error is to over-egg the shocks and start them way too early - Aussie hit Wolf Creek worked so well partly because it made viewers wait for the horror to appear.
Fans of Japanese horror films appear to be related to those mysterious people who like to get out of their cars to inspect roadkill, or those who watch bypass surgery on public television — except that they are devotees of a much darker and weirder phenomenon.
Fans of Japanese horror films appear to be related to those mysterious people who like to get out of their cars to inspect roadkill, or those who watch bypass surgery on public television except that they are devotees of a much darker and weirder phenomenon.
