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Horror Story (1993)

Name: Horror Story
Director: Jaroslav Brabec
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Released: 1993-05-06
Duration: 1 h 39 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Ondřej Pavelka, Klára Jirsáková, Raoul Schránil, Jakub Saic, Vladimír Marek

IMDb 6.21h 39mComedy Horror

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Plot Summary

The distinctive artist, typographer, and writer Josef Váchal is known to the public primarily for his Blood Novel. The surrealistic exuberance of this defense of 19th-century pulp fiction caught the attention of Jaroslav Brabec and his colleagues, who found a corresponding image of 20th-century "trash." The authors' interest focuses primarily on the silent film era, with a journey through the history of cinema continuing through the advent of sound film to the present day (auteur cinema of the 1960s, modern horror), formally employing techniques such as tinted film. The versatile parody intertwines a colorful plot with the story of the author (Váchal/Paseky), who comments on and creates his book, and is further split in the plot into the characters of Fragonard and the Master. As with Váchal, reality increasingly enters the fiction, so that the only "happy ending" turns out to be the artist's finished work.