Julian Hoeber Explores Low-Budget Horror with WHERE IS THE MONEY?
Julian Hoeber delves into low-budget horror with todays film on MOCAtv called Where Is the Money?. Hoeber takes a look at exploitation, low-budget horror and how it effectively creates the feelings of anxiety and discomfort, the first found footage film (Cannibal Holocaust), and Wes Craven then-and-now.
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Horror is inherently linked to the real, as elucidated in Julian Hoeber’s masterful video composition, Where Is the Money? Written and directed by Hoeber, the video’s form plays reflexively with genre as American radio journalist Barbara Bogaev’s polished, emotionally neutral narration moderates the violent imagery and politics of the low-budget horror movies that are the subject of this work. Where Is the Money? Begins with Gustav Courbet’s Burial at Ornans (1850). Courbet’s painting was a turning point in French 19th century painting because it was a realistic and unflattering depiction of a peasant funeral rendered in a scale usually reserved for religious and heroic paintings — “it was a new idea of what could be shown in a picture at all.”
Using Ornans as a jumping-off point, Where is the Money? is a gripping examination of the relationship between fear, poverty, and the real in low-budget, avant-garde, and blockbuster horror films of the 20th century —- including Un Chien Andalou, The Last House on the Left, Scream, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hostel, and the Exorcist. Hoeber expands on the idea that the primary horror of post-9/11 cinema comes in the form of Americans tortured by vengeful and impoverished third-world nations…, while unglossed and genuine representations of American poverty remain largely absent because the current economic crisis is perhaps too horrific and too real for us to deal with.
Here are the movies used in the video:
Freaks. Dir. Tod Browning. USA, 1932
Un Chien Andalou. Dir. Luis Bunuel. France, 1929
Cannibal Holocaust. Dir. Ruggero Deodato. Italy, 1980
The Blair Witch Project. Dir. Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez. USA ,1999
Paranormal Activity 2. Dir. Tod Williams. USA, 2010
The Last House on the Left. Dir. Wes Craven. USA, 1972
Color Me Blood Red. Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis. USA, 1965
Blood Feast. Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis. USA, 1963
Zombie. Dir. Lucio Fulci. Italy, 1979
Scream. Dir. Wes Craven. USA, 1996
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Dir. Tobe Hooper. USA, 1974
Schindler’s List. Dir. Steven Speilberg. USA, 1993
The Wizard of Gore. Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis. USA, 1970
Halloween. Dir. John Carpenter. USA, 1978
Dawn of the Dead. Dir. George A. Romero. USA, 1978
Two-Thousand Maniacs. Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis. USA, 1964
The Exorcist. Dir. William Friedkin. USA, 1973
Hostel. Dir. Eli Roth. USA, 2005
Turistas. Dir. John Stockwell. USA, 2006
Planet Terror. Dir. Robert Rodriguez. USA, 2007
The House of the Devil. Dir. Ti West. USA, 2009
L’Argent. Dir. Robert Bresson. France, 1983
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