...first notable horror films, Nosferatu (1922) Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears. Horror films often feature scenes that startle the viewer; the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Thus they may overlap with the fantasy, supernatural, and thriller genres.[1] Horror films often deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world. Prevalent elements include ghosts, aliens, vampires, werewolves, curses, satanism, demons, gore, torture, vicious animals, monsters, zombies, cannibals, and serial killers. Conversely, movies about the supernatural are not necessarily always horrific.[2] Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 1890s–1920s 1.2 1930s–1940s 1.3 1950s–1960s 1.4 1970s–1980s 1.5 1990s 1.6 2000s 2 Sub-genres 3 Influences 3.1 Influences on society 3.2 Influences internationally 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links [edit]History [edit]1890s–1920s See also: List of horror films of the 1890s, List of horror films of the 1900s, List of horror films of the 1910s, and List of horror films of the 1920s Lon Chaney, Sr. in The Phantom of the Opera The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts created by the film pioneer Georges...
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...4. What exactly makes the creature so horrific to him? He’s afraid of the monster because it’s so ugly - it should have been beautiful -“But now that i had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep. A length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured: and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness.” - Page 11, Line 24-30 - “Catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.” - Page 12, Line 17-19 - “Pacing them with quick steps, as if I sought to avoid the wretch whom I feared every turning of the street would present to my view.” - Page 12, Line 36-38 5. How does the creature react when seeing Frankenstein? - In what way is the scenario reminiscent of childbirth? In the book "Frankenstein" Victor had intended to create the perfect being, but instead he created a vile creature whose existence he deplores. He tries to distance himself from the creature, but he knows that he is tied to its existence. Initially he tries to teach the creature. He intends to make him react and act more normal. Victor has no patience in developing the creature. Victor pulls away more and more until he abandons...
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...Horror Movie Haven When watching a horror movie one can escape their everyday life, and even go as far as to imagine themselves as the hero of the film. But that also means that one can imagine themselves as the antagonist of the film. “Why We Crave Horror Movies” is an article in which the author, Stephen King states his position on horror films. Stephen King points out that while some individuals watch horror movies because they are entertaining, horror movies may also be used to help suppress one’s psychopathic tendencies by feeding their craving for real murder. I agree with Stephen King one hundred percent. Not only are horror movies the most entertaining type of films to watch, but society can also use horror films as a therapeutic tool to help suppress their homicidal feelings. In the second paragraph of the article Steven King states “When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare” (Par. 2). Daring the nightmare to me is only looking for an entertaining situation that I am not normally accustomed to, whether it’s a thrill or just plain terrifying. Horror movies are by far the most entertaining types of films to watch. Whether it’s Children of the Corn or the Blair Witch Project I am always ready to watch a good horror movie because they always leave me satisfied. The suspense, the gore, and the various types of villains in these movies are all reasons why horror movies entertain...
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...Toddrick Macon Bwvw assignment Section 26 9/25/13 The topic I chose was a substantial online movie review. I found a lot of reviews on a lot of good movies, but I ended up choosing the Insidious 2 out of all of them. This is a hour and forty-five minute horror/suspense film that came out September 13, 2013. As I read over the review I noticed the author disliked the movie. He describes the movie, as being two thirds of a great movie. The suspense qualities that should be displayed in any horror movie were overshadowed by the frightening pop out scenes. He also describes how the segments of movie are lengthy. The author definitely accomplished his goal of explaining why he didn’t agree with the movie. How he explained could’ve been a little bit better by giving a couple more examples, but the examples he did use were explained well. The author’s delivery was good; he never left me wondering why something in the movie was incorrect. He presented himself in a very respectful way; his work came of as very professional when I was reading it. He used his words the right way. I didn’t see any grammar errors, or misspelling of a word. All together the movie review of Insidious two was good. A couple more points, or examples on why he didn’t like the movie would’ve been better. If I were grading this review I would give this author somewhere between a ninety and one...
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...thriller, whilst also touching on horror at points (the murders). The Avengers Assemble has a hybrid genre of sci-fi, action and fantasy. I will be looking at the parts of these movies that are typical of the genres that they are categorised in. The first text I will explore is Sightseers. In black comedies and crime, the iconography and location is often rural countryside; so Sightseers is challenging the conventions of the crime genre – often held in places associated more with ‘gangsters’, e.g. council estates, rougher areas (perhaps more populated) as opposed to the peaceful nature of the countryside. The choice of a caravan park adds a feeling of tranquillity and isn't an immediate location that springs to mind when it comes to thinking about the crime genre - so Ben Wheatley, the director, who has directed black comedies in the past, will have wanted to challenge the conventions of these movies. The comedy aspect is explored within quite a few scenes, the jokey comments that Tina is making to her mum at the beginning of the movie (where she repeats 'mum' several times, which is becomes quite humorous). The sort of humour used does challenge the conventions of a comedy as there are no out and out jokes, but some of the shots used such as Tina throwing food inside a bears mouth create a shock factor, that also makes you laugh - this is another way in which Ben Wheatley has challenged the conventions. Black comedy and the touches of horror are brought in through the various...
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...Ju -on : The Grudge is a Japanese written and directed by Takashi Shimizu horror film , released in 2002 the film spawned an American remake titled The Grudge in 2004 , also directed by Shimizu. . The original was critically acclaimed for its unique structure , slow pace, and atmosphere. The remake however, was criticized for its cultural conflict , the evidence and the absence of violence. The only fear tactics and nonlinear structure of Ju -on : The Grudge won the most praise for the film. The use of psychological scares rather than conventional jump - scares is an element that is especially popular among critics . The film creates disturbing atmospheres and thus slow " deliberate rhythms have a numbing effect ," confirms New York Times critic Dave Kehr . For example , the haunted house in which the movie takes place is eerily quiet , with subtle crackle to be heard here and there ; This gives your audience an uneasy feeling in his presence in a quiet room while watching the movie . Another example would be that the slow pace leaves the audience in constant paranoia for a planned spectrum , similar to the long clips from running . David Kehr also notes that the structure of the film " gets viewers involved and riddles , as they have to reconstruct the time frame ." For example , the character of Rika has no direct relationship with the successive two bullets in the film, only to become a recurring theme , or character of the fourth bullet on Toyama . Another example is the...
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...Film Viewer Opinion Paper Francis F Perkins HUM/150 May seventh 2012 Carole Ricotta Film Viewer Opinion Paper I decide to watch a film from the film trailer’s that are advertised on television. I enjoy science fiction movies and if a science fiction movie is coming I will try to watch it’ I enjoy movies with a large amount of action and violence in it. I will watch other movies and am surprised that I enjoyed them. A so called “chick flick” is not really my choice but have enjoyed them when I am dragged to see one. Some of the favorite films are “Close Encounters of the third Kind” and “ET.” I will watch the movies that are advertised on television before I will go see the film. If the trailer for the film has a much action in it I will go watch the film. I have watched films that looked exciting on television, and they turned out to be duds. I go to the movies I like to be entertained and not given something to think about. What make a film enjoyable to me are many parts of the film. If the acting is good and the actors make he or she believe that the action is really going on, and it makes the film enjoyable. Special effects in a film can make or break a film if I believe what is happening. Some films are made too dark, and it makes it hard to see what is going on in the film so lighting is important in a film. Of course a good plot line in a film is important with many twists and turns in a film makes it interesting. A good murder mystery or horror movie with many...
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...rest of the group ad details where necessary. The story is first and forward about a funeral. Its starts pretty normal and has a certain silence. But it takes a turn when a cat jumped up from the coffin 2: What does “in the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent” (p. 21, l. 16-17) mean? The opposite of reason Heart= feelings, no thinking things through. We think it means that wimping won’t get John mortonson back so there is no reason for philosophy wimping over the coffin. 3: How do we see Bierce's motto, “nothing matters”, in the story? It really means nothing matters, like in question number 2 that nothing matters when you lose someone, it all stops and sadness takes over. 4: What makes “John Mortonson's Funeral” a horror story? In the 3 last lines in the story, we hear something about the cat have a bloody noise so it’s could very much be that the cat have been eating of John Mortonson 5: Do you think the story would have become popular if it had been written today? Why? Why not? No I don’t think it would have been. The today world is much more cruel and horrible. One of the scary movies that are having success is saw. A movie like that is popular because of its mind twisted and crazy. Even crime shows like CSI would be more horrifying then this story. I don’t think people would find it that intersting. It takes a lot to scar people...
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...younger age. Media institution: The institution that produced the movie was 21st Century Fox; this is a huge Hollywood movie company and has produced many of the famous big movies out in the industry now. It was created merely, in knowing that this was going to be a big Hollywood movie and mainstream, it has many famous actors acting in the movie indicating that these will most likely cost a lot of money to produce since it has the big Hollywood actors involved. This institution is a Big Hollywood company and is popular in screening their popular blockbuster movies around the world. What I associate with this company is that they make movies such as Omen where it is big at the time of screening. The institution influences its text (horror) by advocating different ways in marketing its release, for example towards the end of the movie trailer is showed how it will be on screen at the cinema on the ’06, 06, 06’ which are preferably referred towards the devil and this movie is linked in with possession. Another reason it’s mainly the trailer, where it shows different transitions allocated around the whole trailer. For example there are various amounts of ‘cuts’ switching each time to show the different scenes that will be happening in the movie, also the way the trailer uses ‘fades’ in many of its shots giving the illusion to that viewers on what will be...
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...Movies People say that baseball is America's favorite past time, but I guarantee you know more people who have been to a movie theater than have attended a professional baseball game. Not all movies make it to the silver screen, some go straight to DVD, while others gross hundreds of millions of dollars. People go to the movies for several reasons, perhaps a first date or just hanging out with friends, whatever the reason is, you will most certainly be entertained. Ironically the fantasy of movies has a mystical way of making us feel genuine emotions. Whether it's a comedy, action, or horror movie, for a couple of hours people can forget about their real lives and exist in a world of make believe and fantasy. Over the course of my movie going career, the three categories that make for a movie worth paying to see are comedies, action, and horror films. In recent years, the most popular type of movie in theaters is comedies. A good can cheer up even the grumpiest of grumps. The most noticeable trait of a hit comedy is when you hear people repeating the one-liners for many months later. “Alrighty then” from Ace Ventura Pet Detective, was repeatedly uttered at middle schools across America in the mid nineties. Comedies are also great at cutting through that first date tension, you won't have to worry about making her laugh and you have something to talk about during the awkward silence moments. Other examples of great comedies that performed well in theaters include...
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...slasher films. In the article, Connelly states that women in films dealing with slashing, will have to learn and be able to face the masculine traits of the killer to be able to surive and be the “Final Girl” (13). Kelly uses the movies Halloween, Halloween 2, and Halloween H2O to describe the relationship that is used in each of these movies. The relationship she describes is the female-male relationship, which would be considered the male killer and the Final Girl (13, 14). A few traits that Connelly describes that the “final girl” has is that she is never sexually active and she often acts more like a boy than a woman. If she sees something that is not normal or is out of the ordinary then she is automatically assured to go check to see what it is which causes her to receive the traits of being smart and attentive of her surroundings (14). Clover has come to see that Laurie achieves empowerment as the final girl based on her ability to stay alive long enough to be rescued in the first film, Halloween (14). But twenty years later in Halloween H2O Laurie had become of age as the true final girl” by assuming the male characteristics of her attacker, which would be a necessary step in defeating the slasher film monster. The lessons Laurie learned in Halloween and Halloween 2 will permit her to finally triumph as the final girl by defeating the male monster in Halloween H20 in addition to her acceptance of her relationship with Michael, which is the male monster in the films (14)...
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...Film Studies Assignment 1: Essay Nowadays, when you question people about the meaning of genre, what is the uses, people might starring at you and confuse especially new generation like generation Y and baby-boomers. Young generations are just concern about the story of a film, who is the actor or actress plays the main character in the film or they just like to watch and no interest to category it. First of all, genre is the method categorized a film based on similarities in the narrative elements. There are a wide range of different types of film genres: detective, action, adventure, gangster or crime, science fiction, drama, horror, romance, comedy, musical and so on. It is quite difficult to identify a particular film because a film might have a few of different genres. That is the reason why sub-genres exist. Sub-genres can help us to more clarity in identify the genre of a film. For example, a horror film might involve supernatural, thriller, mystery or others. There has not been one exact method that can clearly categorize a film into a particular genre since from previous to present although there are many methods can define it. This is because genres are not static but it will change over the decades as the times goes. However, according to Rick Altman, the method he has proposed so far is the best methods to define a film’s genre. The methods he has proposed are Semantic Approach and Syntactic Approach. The semantic approach is the list of common traits, attitudes...
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...The Merchants of Cool 1. The “mook” is just a media construction that takes all of the wicked things in adolescent male teenagers and makes the “mook” attitude. A perfect example of a mook is all the people on the show “Jackass” they are all model mooks. A “midriff” however is a media construction that is taken from the sexual interest that all teenagers have. It is an attitude that girls take on where they think that all boys want are great bodies so they get one just to satisfy them. An example of a midriff is Britney Spears. She uses her body to sexually manipulate men and bring her into the limelight and ascend her career. These stereotypes are chosen to be labeled upon the teenagers today because there are some aspects in both of these stereotype’s that are true and they are easily taken and labeled onto them. 2. The shows “Dawson’s Creek” and “Beverley Hills, 90210” were popular but I don’t think they were popular because they were a reflection of teen life. I feel like they were popular because it was the life that many teenagers want to have. They want to have fun every day and do crazy things with hardly any consequence. Teenagers now aren’t as active as they are portrayed in the TV shows. They would much rather stay home and watch what is going on in other peoples fun lives then try and do the same thing as they see on TV. These TV shows are not a mirror to my live because I am not as interested in the thing that they are doing and that is the same for lots of...
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...Movie Critique of Constantine Constantine is a horror movie that rest on supernatural concepts. The film is about a chain smoking psychic, John Constantine, who exorcises demons and has a disdain for life. He teams up with another psychic, Angela, who has lost her twin sister, Isabel, to suicide. Together they find out her motives of suicide tie into a large sinister plot to get Satan’s son to rule the earth. They decide to try and thwart these plans but end up getting mixed up in them, particularly Angela. Constantine makes an effort to save her, and temporarily succeeds, but faces an unlikely foe (the archangel Gabriel) and his plans are derailed. Finally, he attempts to sacrifice his life for Angela and the world and, because of this, is redeemed. This movie is chock full of scary and creepy looking demons and cold half demons (“half breeds”). It is a horror movie in every sense, but is also a supernatural film. The editing in this film was appropriate to the story that was being told. The types of editing techniques used were specific to the horror genre. There are a few examples that show what type of editing was used. Match cuts, eye-line match cut, and fast cutting are just a few editing techniques that were used in this film. They contribute to the overall feeling of the film. For example, eye-line match cut was used a few times which increase the suspense of the movie. Eye line match cut was used at the beginning of the film to introduce the dagger and the man who found...
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...The Production of Halloween The “New Hollywood” era was an era that stretched roughly from the late 60s to the early 80s where there was a wave of young filmmakers who brought a new style into the “New Hollywood” era. A new and improved way of presenting a story was brought, referred to as “post-classical cinema”. These new films were funded and financed by major film studios and introduced a style that wasn’t seen as “traditional” (Hitchman). The “New Hollywood” era films were known to redesign the classic genres of Hollywood like the crime and war films, thus showing a more critical view of society in the past and present. The change in market during the period went from a middle-aged high school educated audience in the mid 60s, to a younger, more affluent, college-educated demographic and by the mid 70s, a majority of all moviegoers were at least under 30. There was desperation in studios during this period due to status of the economy. The best thing that happened to the filmmakers was that they brought an emphasis on realism (Citation 1). The movie “Halloween” is known as one the greatest independent slasher films ever, created off of a budget of $300,000 and brought $70,000,000 in revenue. Halloween was directed by John Carpenter, produced by Debra Hill and written between the both of them. The movie was set in Haddonfield, Illinois, mainly on Halloween 1978. This movie was the break for “New Hollywood” actress Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode). John...
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