Kalium wrote:Horror: I remember someone complaining that there aren't a lot of horror videos out there. Period. Maybe there's a not-so-subtle hint there...
That was probably me. I love dark anime such as Lain or NTHT, and by extention I like dark videos.
Here's my take on the genre of "Horror," with examples:
What many people consider horror I think of as action. There are only a few action videos that are emotionally powerful enough for me to consider horror. I just saw "faces of Death" and I loved the beginning but all the Seizureistic gore put me off. Same thing with Horror movies, I don't watch slasher films because I refuse to pay to be nauseated. Now, "From Hell" there's a
real horror movie. You don't need blood to make a horrifying video. Most of my favorites have little or no blood.
What it comes down to is that I like psychological horror, aka "dark" videos, not gore.
The best dark videos have slow songs, and powerful visuals. They can be terrifying but more often are not. They make you think or leave you shaken. Many of them are instrumental and instead of beat synch or lyric synch, they make heavy use of mood synch or occasionally musical synch (using visuals to represent instruments.) There are some that follow lyrics though, most notably the excellent
Haunted. Many of them are more depressing than anything, such as
endure.
However they can be very disturbing as well.
Lain - Resident Evil and
Forbidden Memories are both good examples of this. Also forbidden memories shows that you don't need a sad song to make a dark video, a happy song with dark visuals can be terrifying.
Shinneneko is the extreme example of this (Do not watch this video if you value your sanity.)
There are many kinds of dark video but the key is powerful emotions other than the adrenaline of action vids or the sedimentilisim of romance vids. It can even be bittersweet like
Imagine.
Other examples:
Charcoal Skeched Dreams
Zombie
The Bird Who Flew To Far
Cry Little Idol
Anger Management
...If it doesn't make you question you sanity, why watch it?
Other genres that I like that I don't see to often are videos that significantly change the context of the images, and more traditionally artistic videos (I know that all AMV's are artistic but this is the only name I could come up with.) If you like any of the "artistic" videos, Check out the upcoming fantasia project, lot's of good videos being made for that. Here’s a couple of examples.
Videos that make their own story:
Transcending Love
What Romance Entails
Fallen Angel
"Artistic" videos:
The Wasteland
Solace in Destruction
Arima Sinjikun
Well, hope I gave enough examples.
