The Most Creative HorrorFest Entries?

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Most of the entries in this contest are technically great - great camera work, editing, and great sound design. I was blown away by the quality on many of these films - there are no doubt a lot of talented people on these forums.

The one area where I think a lot of these film are lacking, though, is in writing and originality departments. A lot of these films felt like scenes from movies that have already been made.

Having said that, I think there are a few films that were very creative.

So which HorrorFest entries do you think were the most creative?
 
I thought The Sound from Beyond was creative, maybe not somuch in the execution
but, the style served it's purpose well. That's if my interpretation was correct... hmm
I have to watch it again... *double clicks TSFB MP4 Medium 16X9.mov"*
 
Any one that did not have the SERIAL KILLER/HOSTEL/SAW thing going on was creative.

That's like I guess 4 of them it seems
 
Some of the most creative ones are still a bit derivative of existing horror films, but that's to be expected when doing genre pieces. What counts is did they bring something new to the table. Even though Halfway had similarities to Saw I thought it was extremely effective - one of the few I have seen that I would actually call 'scary'. Cure for Writers Block #9 is superbly creative too, despite comparisons to Eraserhead and Naked Lunch. IMO, Draco and Urine Trouble get high marks in the creativity department too. Rekiindled had tremendous visual impact and creative editing, it just seemed very derivative of multiple films and wasn't at all scary.
 
Okay, party poopers.

Well honestly I think this fest reflects the movie buisess as a whole. You had a lot that might have been derivitive, some that were new twists on old ideas, and then things like Urine Trouble and Halfway, that were just off the charts in their own ways.

But when you say creative, there's only so original you can be before you start to leave the language of the genre behind. When things like Frankenstein came out, THAT was creative because no one had ever SEEN that before. But now, we all have seen horror for 100 years. So there are certain conventions established, and those have come to define the genre, like it or not. And those conventions are actually pretty uniform through the subgenres: Monster chase you and you die. The monster might be Buffalo Sampson, or a urine cake. "you die" might be actually getting hacked up, or being driven mad, or whatever. In Black Angel, her insanity equals getting killed, basically. You see my point.

That being said, there were varying degrees of creativity within the genre in this fest, but I did notice some nice twists on old ideas. Jack's movie. The Blind Guy movie. Dear Jane. Even Bloody Mary, while shamlessly cribbing, story, lighting plots, themes, shots from Hamlet to no fewer than TWO DEPALMA FILMS, we tried to put those things together with some creativity, rather than re-invent the wheel. And I see a lot of people doing the same types of thing.

So I think creativity has been popping up in those ways. You can say there wasn't much, and maybe en masse that's true, but I think you need to define those terms a little better, because as I said, there's only so creative you can get within the limits of the genre, and given the number of films, this shakes out very much like the industry as a whole, I think.
 
I believe that Love is the most deceptive feeling was creative....its the first time I am saying publicly something like this for my entry but I feel that in the creativity department I had some good moments......

please dont bash....
 
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