Ever sinceScreamkind of reinvented the idea , meta - revulsion has been a rather familiar subgenre . These days , a horror picture show barely even palpate like a repugnance moving picture if one of the characters has n’t seenHalloween50 million time or driblet in a few references to David Cronenberg orDario Argento . Netflix ’s new film , A Classic Horror Story , calculate like it ’s construct on that skeleton as well , but takes thing to a whole other level .
Directed by Roberto De Feo and Paolo Strippoli — with a story by De Feo , Strippoli , Lucio Besana , David Bellini , and Milo Tissone — A Classic Horror Story is a new Italian repugnance cinema come to Netflix on July 14 . A teaser was released last monththat delineate it as“Italian Midsommar get together Texas Chain regard Massacre ” and from this preview , that verbal description is right on the money .
So , so many revulsion references here . The musical theme of a group of multitude in a camper getting strand is exactlyTexas concatenation Saw Massacre . Those shot of with child groups of furor - like people get together is exactly likeMidsommar . The torment equipment work to mindSaw . The role directly referenceIt . There ’s a character in some kind of wooden , almost Jason Voorhees type masquerade party . The main character tally a scattergun feels likeThe Evil Dead . Everyone literally ends up in a cabin in the Ellen Price Wood , which is bothCabin in the Woodsand about a billion other horror films . The font in the trailer is the face from Halloween . We could go on and on .
Matilda Lutz in A Classic Horror Story.Screenshot: Netflix/YouTube
We do n’t really know much about the picture show beyond that but the prescribed YouTube description could n’t be more tantalizing : “ A camper . A automobile crash . An abandon house . Children ’s music in the screen background . recollect you ’ve go through it before ? Look again . ” We have no thought what that means but if somehow the picture show misdirect all this in an interesting , shuddery way , this movie could be particular .
A Classic Horror Story comes to Netflix on July 14 .
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