0:00.0	Throughout the 2000s, a new popular type of horror movie emerged that became known as
0:26.3	survival horror.
0:28.4	Movies about white western characters traveling somewhere, usually another country, and
0:33.2	finding themselves stranded in a single dangerous location, battling against the natural elements
0:39.6	or monsters and struggling to survive.
0:43.0	The descent, open water, cabin fever, blackwater, buried, and 127 hours were among many
0:49.9	examples of survival horror.
0:52.7	In 2008, Carter Smith directed a film based on a novel about
0:57.0	young people vacationing in Mexico and visiting a remote Mayan ruin, only to find
1:03.2	themselves stranded and under attack from deadly carnivorous plants.
1:13.3	Two years later, writer-director Adam Green made a simple, high-concept, low-budget film
1:19.3	about a group of friends vacationing in a ski resort only to find themselves stranded
1:24.6	in a chairlift in sub-zero conditions, freezing to death, and surrounded
1:30.3	by vicious, deadly wolves.
1:38.3	Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of nature in horror, and we discuss two low-budget survival horrors,
1:46.2	Carter Smith's The Ruins and Adam Green's Frozen.
1:56.5	Welcome back to the evolution of horror and happy new year. My name is Mike Munser and as ever I am your
2:02.7	host. In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre,
2:08.0	one subgenre at a time. We are currently in the middle of our 10th season exploring the evolution
2:13.6	of nature biting back in horror and this is part 29. In this week's episode, as that
2:20.3	intro suggested, we're going to be looking at two vicious little survival horrors for the late
2:24.4	2000s. That's the Ruins from 2008 and Frozen from 2010. Both of these discussions will be
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