{"id":9241,"date":"2014-01-30T07:27:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T07:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress72\/?p=25033"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:29","slug":"i-prefer-dark-horror-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2014\/01\/30\/i-prefer-dark-horror-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I prefer dark horror movies’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The International Film Festival Rotterdam is back in town. EM asks some movie worshippers about their passion for film and the must-sees at the festival. Today: Mauro Stel, first year of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Erasmus University College.<\/p>\n

In his hometown in the Netherlands Mauro annually helps out at a local film festival, which holds outdoor movie screenings during summertime. He states this commitment as a main reason for his interest in film.<\/p>\n

Horror movies<\/b><\/p>\n

In Mauros opinion movies always tell a story but it is the visual component of films, which make them so engaging. \u201cThey are a great means to change the world in a sense, but also to let people think of the situation we are in. Politically and socially.\u201d A movie which made Mauro think of our situation was \u2018The Hurt Locker\u2019, posing the question about the necessity of war. <\/p>\n

And of course movies are entertaining. For that purpose he prefers horror movies with a mysterious and sometimes dark atmosphere. Especially the \u2018SAW\u2019 and \u2018Wrong Turn\u2019 films come to his mind.<\/p>\n

Mauro plans on watching three movies at the IFFR. They sound quite different from another, but let him speak for himself:<\/p>\n

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\u2018Vergiss mein Ich\u2019:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about a woman who has retrograde amnesia and I can imagine that it can be very hard to live with such a disorder. And that sort of stirred my interest. My grandfather also suffers from amnesia and I\u2019m really curious to see how the director incorporated these characteristics of amnesia into the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Nebraska\u2019:<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI actually picked this movie because I have been to the United States myself a couple of times. I was struck by the beauty of the American countryside and the typical life on the countryside there. And I hope this movie captures this natural feeling of living in an artificial symbiosis with nature as well as pursuing the American Dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018L\u2019amour est une crime parfait\u2019:<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen reading the festivals booklet I read the caption of this movie and it was a rather odd description, which stirred my interest. That\u2019s a typical horror movie but the abundance of humor makes the movie funny to a certain extent. And I always like it when situations are made less important and things are put into perspective. I hope that it matches the Hitchockian standard.\u201c ET<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t

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