Slasher Movies: Female Victims or Survivors? “[Scary movies are] all the same. Some stupid killer stalking some big-breasted girl who can’t act who’s always running up the stairs when she should be running out the front door. It’s insulting,” claims the character Sidney, in the movie Scream (1996). This stereotype is what many movie fans and critics believe when the topic of slasher films arise. Slasher films normally include a psychotic killer (either real or supernatural), a number of
senses heightened? Perhaps you are even intrigued as to what will happen next. Horror film is a popular genre, but shouldn’t seem to have any real appeal. Horror lures its audience by lingering on the fears of man, manipulating emotions, affecting one’s mind. Those creepy-crawlies on the big screen usually reflect the common fears of the times. These societal fears can be described as the ‘Horrors.’ In the 1960’s, the horror of
Feminism In Horror: How A Nightmare on Elm Street reflects the Sexual Revolution Horror has long been about tales of heroic men fighting monsters (whether it be human or inhuman) and saving damsels in distress. Women were mostly used as eye candy, victims of violence or only to further the plight of the leading man. It wasn’t until the 1970’s that women in horror movies started to have more power in horror movies. This was majorly due to the rise of feminism, the female protagonists were fighting
Horror movies in general play on our fears, conscious or unconscious. They are often reflective of the fears of society at a given time, or of more simple and archetypical fears. Horror that is aimed towards or about women, however, almost always relates to the female body in some way, whether it be controlling it, in the case of possession; harming it through entrance, in the case of stabbings and rape; and fear of the female body itself, most often shown through menstruation, pregnancy, and birth
The 1970s represented a truly diverse time in the history of horror cinema. This was a reflection, perhaps, of how life was growing more complex in the 1970s, with competing problems pulling audiences towards different fears. Some horror films in the 1970s were revisionary, based on the fresh principles of a freer, more personal cinema. Other horrors were merely old resurrections and variations of monsters who had appeared on the silver screen, in one form or another, since the 1930s and 1940s.
Introduction The horror genre is one of the oldest genres used in storytelling. It was used in old folklore stories and was commonly used during the ancient Greek plays. Horror genre became one of the first genres to be adopted into filmmaking in the 1920’s. Though the word "horror" to describe in the film genre would not be used until after Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein both in 1931. J. A. Cuddon (1984) defined horror in The Penguin Book of Horror Stories as “a piece
Perkins) are exposed as freaks in a montage of pictures that they themselves provide for a class project. In Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine, Barbara Creeds suggests that the use of such pervasive images of transgressive femininity as well as monstrosities in such horror films brand this genre “works of abjection”. Creeds defends her ideology referring to Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror detailing
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a 2014 Persian horror movie. This film is about a man named Arash who is one of the protagonists. He is a hardworking boy who looks after his father. The father, Hossein, is a heroine addict and is old in age. Both Arash and his father are being bothered and harassed by a drug dealer. The drug dealer, Saeed, gambles and steals from Arash’s family by taking his beloved car in exchange for Hossein owing him money that he is yet to pay back. His actions must have
describe and analyze a convention that can easily be understood and recognized as its common applied. Popular cultures are the images, perspectives and ideas that are within a given culture and is directing a certain mass. Final girl, a horror movie is among those movies that have many tropes in them. This movie is about a certain woman who becomes the last in line to ever confront the killer. She becomes the only person to ever narrate the story. This all happens after all her friends were killed by
in 1956, he wanted to produce a film that creatively captured the fear of McCarthyism. The movie was inspired by the novel written by Jack Finney in 1954, which also aimed to depict what fears society had in the 50s. The film was recreated three more times, each with an original spin on the first movie and novel, but still effectively capturing the attention of the audience. The primary hope was of increasing awareness over the fear of Communism and losing one’s personal autonomy to Communism while