Well hello and welcome to 2010 folks! And as I take a break from the long line of DVD reviews I’ve decided to jump right back into the mix of my look at art in horror with part 3 of my 4 part look. Now we’ve already seen when the art is really art, we’ve seen when the art gets ugly, now we take a look at a very annoying phase in horror, when the art was all pretty much the same.
So did this start with Scream? In the 90′s when Scream came out with all it’s witty and cleverness, it unleashed a new type of horror film upon us. It unleashed a style of tossing all the young hot teens in the movie business together just to chop them up. Think of it as The Brat Pack from Hell…or perhaps Old Navy.
The only thing that got copied more than the format of Scream was the style of the cover. Every movie from I Know What You Did Last Summer to Urban Legends were pretty much doing the same thing, tossing all their pretty teens on the cover with something spooky faded/added in.
Now this wasn’t that bad at first but when every teen horror from the good ones to the bad ones started using these same style covers it just became too much. Sure some where adding in other small elements but it pretty much just gave us a slightly different flavor of the same product.
From Final Destination to even lower budget films we all got the same thing when it came to these type covers. From around 1996 all the way up into the early 2000′s we had to deal with this sorta stuff covering up the video store shelves and the DVD racks..Heck, if you look close you can ever see these today from time to time. Clearly this wasn’t one of my favorite phases.
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