MOVIE WEB: Why Bunker Could Encourage More War-Themed Horror Films
January 7, 2023
"With horror films based on war being a rarity, what makes the upcoming psychological thriller, Bunker, different from the rest?
War is Hell; it's a commonality shared among those who served in the armed forces and those who haven't. In barely a century, war went from something to be celebrated, a rite of passage almost for men of age to fight for their homeland, into something barbaric and terrifying, and something only done as an absolute necessity. Part of the reason public discourse tends to skew negatively toward war is a direct result of the Great War: the war to end all wars that ultimately failed to live up to its idealistic namesake. A clash of rapidly evolving technologies with inversely adequate tactics resulted in countless deaths, untold mental scarring, and a dissolution of the previously grandiose image of war most people had become accustomed to.
The horror genre tends to skew away from war as a setting, often using it as a background for something more fantastical or as a secondary element in a larger story. The upcoming film Bunker, however, aims to use the Great War as a setting for something a little more introspective. What is Bunker, what does it do differently, and why is war-themed horror so rare to begin with?"
