Cinema of Cambodia - Horror Genre Increasing

Horror Genre Increasing

In The recent of years at the new development of films, The Khmer producer brought a new taste for movie with the horror genre but within low budget and weak special effect. In addition, The genres revealed a big hit for the local audiences especially for the young age started attracting for khmer horror movies after the absent for long times. The manager of FCI Productions, which made Nieng Arp, a big hit khmer horror film, Korm Chanthy said We make movies to suit the domestic market and the demand of our youths and They like to watch horror movies because they make them feel excited, thrilled and terrified. Meanwhile, Producer, 29-year-old Heng Tola, was looking to diversify his computer business when he founded Campro three years ago with several friends.

Making a movie takes Campro about three months and costs an average of US$30,000, including about US$1,000 for the lead actor, he said.

The Cambodian horror film generally features a ghost story, old mythology and some form of revenge directed at one (or more) people. A popular subject is Krasue; Khmer Cinema has more than five projects about Krasue with one released in 2009. Films featuring ghost stories, mythology and blood rituals include Ghost Banana Tree and The Kantong Kiev Witch. Another horror film, The Haunted House, is loosely based on legend.

Cambodian horror films focus on their characters' suffering and anguish and (unlike Korean Horror or Japanese horror) feature over-the-top gore effects. Popular horror films such as The Weird Villa and Secret Well (from Ángkor Wat Productions) emphasize psychological terror. Also, Khmer Mekong Films now brings an upcoming contemporary and psychological thriller, Heart Talk, which many strongly believe will be successful.

For revengeful version of the horror genre, illustrates the wills of vengeance, love and some argument. The films' repeated talking about the dead comes alive to take the revenge from the living or unfinished business but still subduced by the good thing or spirit doctor, well known as the Monk Character. The famous ones, Villa Horror, Annoyed or Moheagita.

The monstrous projects can be found on Cambodia horror films and considered the new genre, ever seem for local films. A Campro box office hit's graphic title, The Forest, also the ones including some from FCI Production such as Queen of Cobra and People eating Lizard. The style of Khmer monster films just only the low special effect in production including more natural cinematic as well. Like the Hollywood stylish, the characters for the monster film are focus on teen adventure within adults freedom. It mightily introduces a visiting with journey. Some part of the title also links to slasher film refers the final girl with a creature or killer who stalks and graphically murders a series of mostly adolescent victims in a typically random, unprovoked fashion, killing many within a single night. The first slasher film for Cambodia screen, The Waterfall of Death, which its plot has similarities to the murder thriller I Know What You Did Last Summer combined with Thailand psychological killer film Scared.

Despite the current taste for horror movies, Heng Tola believes a more serious trend is emerging, prompted in part by the resentment many Cambodians feel about its colonial past and toward domineering neighbors such as Thailand and Vietnam.

Just like the same, The horror films for the new rising, still in The basing of local religions ghost story such as Lady Vampire, which depicts the krasue, a ghostly flying female head with internal organs dangling beneath it and Ghost Banana Tree, an inspiring of the old tradition but mostly no relation with the love story. Between 2004 and 2006, The Domestic production made around 20 films genrely horror per year. The most producing of the films seem to be FCI Production and Campro Production which their film mainly the famous one.

In addition, At December 5, 2008, Rankopedia website, listed Cambodia on Country that currently creates the scariest Horror movies with ranked number 20th out of 25th as band score 1.57 by 19 votes. Nieng Arp appeared as the top film for Cambodia followed by The Forest, Villa Horror, The Snake King's Child and finally Secret Well. The Winner goes to Japan caused of its famous horror film, Ringu.

However, In The Third Khmer film festival which held in the late of 2007, banned the Ghost films to celebrate as reason of too much making of Horror movies.