...The classic, proper horror film after Psycho was probably the Soviet film The Curse of the Vampire (1967), co-directed by Konstantin Elkhov and Georgiou Kropachev and adapted from Gogol's original story (Vii, one of the stories in Folktales). In the 1970s, William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973) appeared. The success of this film, which depicts a spectacular showdown between a demon possessing a young girl and an exorcist priest, elevated the impression of traditional horror films as low-budget gags to that of a first-class blockbuster film directed by an Academy Award-winning director, and set the precedent for a series of God vs. the Devil films (the precursor to this was Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968)), and established the term occult in Japan. ... *Some of the terminology that refers to "Exorcist" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…《サイコ》以後の古典的な正調怪奇映画といえば,おそらくソ連の,コンスタンチン・エルホフとゲオルギウ・クロパチョフ共同監督の,ゴーゴリ原作(《民話集》の1話《ヴィー》)の映画化《妖婆死棺の呪い》(1967)くらいなものだろう。 70年代に入り,ウィリアム・フリードキン監督の《エクソシスト》(1973)が登場する。少女にとりついた悪魔と,悪魔ばらいの神父の対決を,スペクタクルとして描いたこの作品のヒットは,従来の怪奇映画の,低予算のげてものという印象を,アカデミー賞受賞監督が撮った一流大作のイメージにまで高め,一連の〈神対悪魔〉物の先鞭をつけ(その前ぶれとしては,ロマン・ポランスキー監督の《ローズマリーの赤ちゃん》(1968)がある),〈オカルト〉なることばを日本にも定着させた。… ※「《エクソシスト》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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