Evan Slead

The diversity of narratives that genre films can offer allows them to craft typically far reaching storylines with a human, emotional core. Of course, creating a script that encompasses this that can be adapted to film has been attempted, but not often successfully. Director Jeff Nichols has exceled in this gray area, with his subtle apocalyptic story of Take Shelter. Whether tackling the complexities of impending danger or the criminal past of a man on the run with Mud, Nichols relies on the human narrative to drive his stories.

BGH's own Sophie just finished her "Women in Horror" month, and to honor that, a review of another female lead film seemed fitting. The 2000 film American Psycho was adapted from the Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name and brought to the screen by director Mary Harron.

The simplest way to conform to the general horror market is with a story revolving around zombies. While the genre typically seeks to bend and morph with the changing times, the saturation of certain sub genres becomes inevitable.

The introduction of Hannibal Lecter through the medium of film surprisingly happened long before the cultural hit The Silence of the Lambs landed in theaters. A performance, made famous by Anthony Hopkins, that created a horror icon owes some groundwork to Michael Mann's Manhunter. The film is an adapted version of the Thomas Harris "Red Dragon" novel that begins the Hannibal Lecter saga. Despite being a strongly written character, the infamy of Lecter was not born within the film.