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NOTABLE HORROR FILM DIRECTORS

BRIAN DE PALMA “MY VIEW OF THE WORLD IS IRONIC, BITTER, ACID…”

• Born September 11th 1940 in Newark New jersey .

• He became entrapped in the filmmaking process after seeing Vertigo and Citizen Kane

• He enrolled in the Sarah Lawrence College he was one of the first male students in a population of female students

• He was inspired by his drama teacher Wilford Leach, Michelangelo Antonio, Jean-luc Goodard, , Andy Warhol and Alfred Hitchcock.

• These influenced the film styles and themes that encompassed his own films

• Palma’s films fall into two categories Psychological thrillers such as Sisters (1973) , Body Double, ( 1983) Obsession (1976) , Dressed to Kill, (1980) Blow Out, (1981) Raising Cain( 1992) and Commercial films : Scarface,

( 1983) The Untouchables, ( 1987) Carlito's Way, ( 1993) and Mission: Impossible( 1996)

• Palma ‘s films has been subjected to controversy from the Motion Picture Association of America, film critics and some viewers because of the extreme graphic violence of his films such as Scarface, Dressed to kill and body double

• Critics have noted Palma’s use of unusual camera angles and compositions . He frames characters against the background using a canted angle shot . Split screen shots are also used to show two separate actions happening simultaneously . He also uses 360 degree pans and tracking shots throughout his films

KIYOSHI KUROSAWA• Born July 19th 1955 in Kobe Japan

• He studied at Rikkyo University in Tokyo under the film critic Shigehiko Hasumi .

• He began making 8mm films and directing commercially in the 1980s working on pink films and low-budget V-cinema (direct-to-video) productions

• In the 19990s Kurosawa won a scholarship to the Sundance Institute and was able to study filmmaking in the USA although he had been directing professionally for ten years

• Kurosawa achieved international acclaim with his 1997 crime thriller film Cure (1997)

• Kurosawa followed up Cure with a semi –sequel in 1999 Charisma a detective

film staring Koji Yakusho

• In 2001 he directed pulse and in 2003 he released Bright Future

• Kurosawa’s directing style has been compared to Stanley Kubrick and Andre Tarkovsky

• He has admitted that Alfred Hitchcock and Yasujrio Oz has shaped his personal vision of the medium

• He also has expressed admiration for American film directors like Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah, Robert Aldrich, Richard Fleischer,and Tobe Hooper

• Kurosawa has been critiqued about his preference to shoot in decaying open spaces ,abandoned ( often condemned) buildings and in places rife with toxins, pestilence and entropy

TOBE HOOPER

• Born January 25 1943 in Austin Texas US

• He became interested in film making when he used his dad’s 8mm camera at age 9 .

• Hooper took Radio-Television-Film classes at the University of Texas Austin and studied drama in Dallas under Baruch Lumet

• Hooper was a college professor and documentary cameraman

• His inspiration for the film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) came from his fantasy to chainsaw his way out of a packed mall

• In 1982 Hooper directed Poltergeist based on the story by Steven Spielberg

GUILLERMO DEL TORO GOMEZ • Born October 9th 1964 in Guadalajara Jalisco Mexico

• Del Toro studied at the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Cinematográficos, in Guadalajara.

• He began experimenting with his father’s super eight camera making short films .

• Del Toro studied special effects make-up with special effects artist Dick smith He spent ten years as a special effects make-up designer and formed his own Company Necropsia

• He co-founded the Guadalajara International Film Festival

• He formed hi own production company the Tequila gang

ROGER CORMAN

• Born April 5th Detroit Michigan

• He studied at Stanford University

• Corman found work at 20th Century Fox in the mail room and he worked his way to story reader .

• He began his film career in 1953 as producer and screenwriter then he started directing films in 1955

• He began to direct films in the mid 1950s including Swamp women (1955)

• Little shop of horror’s (1960) which was shot in two days and one night .

• In addition to producing and direction films for American international pictures ( AIP) in 1959 Corman founded Filmgroup with his brother a company producing or releasing low-budget black –and-white as double feature for drive-ins and action houses however these films were not successful so Corman returned to AIP . Later, he entered classic territory with his Poe adaps; “Corman’s vivid use of colour and Vincent Price’s deranged descents into madness elevate these quickies into genre art.”

STEVEN SPIELBERG• Born December 18th 1946 Cincinnati Ohio he is an American film

director, producer and screen writer . He is considered one of them most influential and popular film makers in the history of cinema he spent his childhood making 8mm adventure films . After moving to California he attended the California State University .He interned at universal studios where he made his first short film Amblin (1968)

• The success of Spielberg’s Jaws a thriller-horror about a killer shark deemed him a household name and one of America's youngest multi-millionaires.

• Similarly to Hitchcock, he’s a master of suspense, and he made a shark tale so definitive it’s never been safe to go back in the water. Especially if you’re Renny Harlin.

WES CRAVEN • Born August 2nd 1939 in Cleveland Ohio he attended wheaton College were he

earned a degree in English and Psychology he then went on to study at Johns Hopkins University and earned a masters degree in Philosophy and writing .

• His first job in the film industry was as a sound editor for a post production company in New York City

• He left the academic world for a more lucrative role of pornographic film director he then went on to write his own films

• In 1972 Craven directed his first feature film The Last House on the Left

• Craven’s work tend to share a common exploration of the nature of reality .A Nightmare on Elm Street ,for instance dealt with the consequences of dreams in real life . The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) portrays a man who cannot distinguish between nightmarish visions and reality . In Scream (1996) the characters cannot distinguish between life and horror films one of the characters Billy Loomis tells his girlfriend that life is just a big movie

• His movies love eviscerating boundaries as well as bodies: from the dream/reality burring of Elm Street to the self-referential nit picking of Scream.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK• Born Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock on August 13 th 1899 in Leytonstone Essex England

• Died 29TH April 1980

• Known as “The Master of Suspense” he pioneered many techniques in the suspense and [Psychological thriller genre .

• He pioneered the use of camera to move in a way that mimics a person’s gaze , forcing viewers to engage in a form of Voyeurism

• He framed shots to maximise fear ,anxiety or emapthy using innovative film editing .

• His stories often involve feature fugitives on the run from the law alongside an “icy blonde female character”

• Many of his films often have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of violence , murder and crime many of the mysteries are used as decoys or McGuffins that serve the films themes fropm psychoanalysis and feature strong sexual overtone

• In Hitchcock’s hands, horror became grounded in everyday mundanity and murder birthed cinematic art. Suspense thrillers like Rear Window and Vertigo prove it’s possible to scare just through process: nerve-jangling anticipation and mental disintegration built up through music, off-kilter camera-angles and playful misdirection.