Horror Film: Comedic Relief

Screwball comedies strongly support the relief theory with the escapism the show. In Sullivan’s Travels the comedy that the inmates see is one of the only moments of joy the get and it shows how comedy provides relief from everyday hard ships.

Cabin in the Woods is about a group of five friends who travel to a cousin’s cabin for the weekend. Once there, they quickly release a horde of zombies upon themselves and chaos ensues. Despite the typical beginning, this movie attempts to put a fresh spin on the classic horror model and somewhat succeeds. Along with the group of friends, several workers appear to be directing the action from behind the scenes. They provide a sort of unneeded comic relief from the disaster occurring above them. The humor and drastic change of scenery takes the viewer away from the horror landscape and draws them out of the engaging and scarier story in the cabin.

The film uses very goofy tactic to make people laugh. Literally from the description of the characters alone, it is ought to be expected the humor of this film. Some of the descriptions are a man who attempted suicide, a lunatic grandfather with no filter, a bankrupt father, and a cynical teenager. Combining them altogether in a scene is a mess but a huge laughter. One of the very comical scenes is the moment their yellow van broke down.

Watching a scary movie tends to heighten our emotions, allowing fear, excitement, and anticipation to course through our veins. Many experience an adrenaline rush, due to their intensified emotions, causing a pull towards watching horror movies. This thrill is an unexplainable sensation, that has the ability to captivate the viewer. Furthermore, the suspense posses us to continue to watch the movie, keeping us at edge of our seats. We become driven to know what will happen next. Moreover, the dramatic irony in horror movies has a tendency to keep the viewer engaged. For example, the viewer knows who the murderer is, however the characters on screen perceive him to be a trusted confidant. Although, many people are scared to face their fears,

1. Joss Whedon says that ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ is “your basic horror movie taken apart; five kids go to a cabin in the woods to have a fun weekend of partying and possibly sex… and are therefore dismembered”. Whedon and Goddard have in essence tried to create a movie with roots tied to the horror genre; it is simply your common slasher movie where the characters are killed off one by one till there is either one person left or none for that matter. ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ also has ties to other genres such as comedy, this can be seen in scenes such as where they are all sitting around in the main room, playing truth or dare, and Jules is dared to kiss the wolfs head on the wall, also in the scene where Marty

The movie, The Wood is a coming of age story about three friends, Roland, Slim, and Mike, who grew up in Inglewood “The Wood”, California and the memories they made as children all the way into adulthood. Inglewood was filled with middle class people. Together the boys experience the struggles of being a teenage boy. The journey of the three boys’ friendship is depicted through a series of flashbacks between past and present tense, starting from the moment they met up until the moment they send Roland off into a new life with his bride to be. The movie focuses immensely on the theme of love, the love they have for each other as brothers, the love they have for the women in their lives, and the love they have for The Wood.

Insidious easily fits the film conventions of the horror genre and themes. Insidious incorporates classic horror elements like haunted houses, ghosts, children being possessed, and outside experts of the spiritual world. A family with three children start to witness things out of the ordinary and are unable to understand what they are seeing. The mother, for instance, knew she was seeing strange deities, but her husband refused to believe it and thought she was just out of it. The classic element of denying there is anything out of the ordinary going on is a classic horror element. Typically the people who deny the reality that there might be something supernatural happening, are the first people to be killed or affected in some manner.

However for the play to work, the audience must be laughing with the characters, not at them. The direction of the play portrayed this “rule” effectively, and it brought a blend of sympathy along with sportive humor as shown by the ending scenes, where you laugh at Arnold’s threats to move to Russia if Jack leaves,

Furthermore, I found this comedic relief to be very integral to the play as a whole. Without it, audience members might feel uncomfortable because of the prevailing serious, dark tone of the play.

The comedy combines physical comedy with gags and great one-liners, puns, word play, and more.

These fools tended to be quite intelligent and despite their crude humour and sarcastic lines, they could be very philosophical at times. In King Lear, by Shakespeare, the audience meets the Fool who plays a wise role toward Lear, even though he was supposed to be the more foolish of the two. In between his jokes and jabs, the Fool shows how much he cares for Lear and does whatever he can to try and bring Lear back from insanity. Not only is the Fool in the play for the need of a few witty lines, but he also proves to be one of the most loyal and protective of Lear’s subjects. He does not have a large amount of lines in the play, and when Cordelia comes back, he disappears completely. It is a possibility that the Fool represents Lear’s rational mind or that Lear creates him out of need for that mothering, protective figure. His past and future is never touched on, instead he just simply exists in the play until he is not needed any further. “He is fated never to have been or to become anything or anyone other than what he eternally is. The Fool incarnates the stasis of Being impervious to the flux of Becoming.” (Seiden,

Get Out is not the typical horror film but is a horror film. Instead of the classic monster, ghost, goblin or obvious killer, white characters in the film are the monsters. I want to compare Get Out with stereotypical horror films. Get Out is one of the most profound American horror films that sits in a category of its own. The focus on race in the film is horrific for many from both ends. The powerfully blatant gender roles replicate the socialized gender roles that have existed in American society for decades.

The Bod Pod is a system in which the body’s density is calculated. This density is then transferred to see how much of a person’s overall weight is fat and how much is muscle. My experience in testing was both interesting and insightful.

Cocaine shouldn’t be legalized in the United States. Cocaine cause so much damage to this world. Even if it’s a small part of the world. Like North America, it made just $110 billion to $130 billion just last year. Cocaine is a very dangerous and addicted drug. A huge money, making business. The fight on the cocaine war, money, and deaths will continue no matter what happens.

Horror films are movies that aim to elicit a strong physiological reaction in the viewer, such as raised heartbeat and fear. Three horror films by the names of Psycho, Scream and The Messengers will be analysed and compared to an episode of the popular children’s show Shaun the Sheep. Five elements will be addressed in this analysis, those being camera techniques, Mise-en-scene, Editing, Lighting and Sound.