Stereotypes In Horror Movies

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.

Blaxploitation, a sub-genre of Exploitation, becomes fairly popular with Hollywood Cinema during the 1960’s and 1970’s. These films initially targeted urbanized youth and began to appeal to African Americans as well as White audiences. However, various groups, such as the Coalition Against Blaxploitation, formed to stop production on films of this genre as it typically portrayed Blacks in a negative way. Generally, there are two different interpretations of Blaxploitation films. One being that these films empower blacks and the more accepted idea that these films further stereotype blacks with the inclusion of pimps, sex, drugs, crime and more. Due to the huge protests against the films, the movement died in the late 1970’s(Negative Effects of the Blaxploitation Movement.); however, Boyz N’ the Hood, produced by John Singleton in 1991, represents a resurgence of Blaxploitation, referred to as “neo-blaxploitation” which reflects the stereotypical interpretation of a blaxploitation film. (Fancher)

As Alice walks through the enchanted forest full of bright color and fantastical creatures, she pales in comparison to the rest of Wonderland. She seems much more human than the world surrounding her. She is an outcast when seen juxtaposed to the chaotic and irrational world around her, much like Tim Burton when seen next to other more “sane” people. Placing characters in worlds that do not suit them, and that are generally wrong for the character, or so it seems, is a trope that Burton uses many times. But this scene could just as easily be a girl in a locker bay, wearing black instead of the bright hues of the students surrounding her.

Though the US is among the most culturally diverse nations, racial stereotyping is still evident. While assessing various Hollywood films, one can visibly observe racial stereotypes. Characters of ‘color’ (as they refer to non-Caucasian characters) are not significantly presented in the mainstream television and film shows (Lester, 2011). Numerous non-Caucasian characters are often given stereotypical roles that include maids, immigrants, prostitutes and other criminals. This applies to characters of African American, Hispanic, Irish, Jewish, and Middle Eastern origins.

There has been a large variety of horror films produced throughout the last fifty years. People are always going to be frightened and scared by different types of horror films. But, what type of horror film scares more people, and were men or women more frightened by these horror films? Each one of the horror films had its own agenda to frighten its audience using several different methods of horror. Some of these methods were more so directed at the female audience than the male audience. Most horror movies show the female as being vulnerable, because in real life females are defenseless against monsters.

American horror films have often played on our societal fears, and in Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992), the film directly deals with race, reminding us that it is still very much a problem in society today, and that ‘our traumatic racial past still haunts us’ (Vern, 2015). The film ‘marks the introduction of an African-American monster to the horror mainstream’ (Donaldson, 2011) and it ‘succeeds in asking some very pointed questions about race and class’ (Elizabeth, 1992). Ultimately this is done by investigating ‘the obscure fears we harbour about the unknown’ – or the racial ‘other’ (Blackwell, 2015). Andrew Tudor says that ‘typically, a horror movie will exploit the tensions implicit in a particular contrast, confronting known with the

In many films and modern tv shows there are a lot of gender stereotypes, but many of the racial stereotypes are in front of our faces and we do not even notice. For example, in the movie “Caucasian Chicks” directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans most people do not notice that the main characters are trying to be a stereotypical Caucasian female. When you watch the movie for the first time, you may not notice all the racial stereotypes in the movie; you just see a comedy movie starring two African-American males. What we don’t notice is that the movie is based on the stereotypical Caucasian female and how they act, how they are more “privileged” then everyone else, and the portrayal of their beauty standards.

Horror movies throughout history have been known to have their cheesy storylines or continuous bad acting. Especially horror movies. People nowadays could easily spot the flaws in a film and judge them drastically in reviews. Yet, little do people notice the ongoing discrimination between genders. Horror films tend to portray males and females substantially differently because of stereotypical views. There seems to be a pattern in which each gender takes a certain role in a movie continuously. Females are shown to be “objects” such as sex and emotional symbols, while males are shown as strong or powerful and moreover as the main bad guy. Although some of the newer edition films of the horror genre are displaying each gender more and more equal throughout the ongoing years, the gender discrimination dilemma still exists and can be seen by the statistics in the movie industry in general.

When most people think of mental illnesses, visions of mental asylums pop into their heads; All the horror movies they've watched flood to their minds, a trial about a mass shooting seeming to come to a close after the suspect is diagnosed with a mental illness, or maybe they think that mental illnesses are just an excuse for people to be 'special'. These are many of the misconceptions that surround the topic of mental illnesses. Are these stereotypes fair and stem from a justifiable source of negativity? Or are these ways of thinking medieval?

I found that the characters seemed to stereotype each other when they either were in trouble, felt uncomfortable, and / or in and aggravated mood looking for trouble. Which honestly were very realistic because when people are put in a “fight or flight” mode if they resort to the fight one, the thing that is really is easy to come up with is to immediately stereotype and make yourself feel better so yes this really can occur in real life.

Other stereotypes women were perceived with are being inherently emotional and susceptible to falling in love with their targets. The movie “Allied” is an example of this, which tells a story about a woman who plays a French Resistance fighter who falls in love with a Canadian intelligence officer, during a mission in Casablanca. Throughout the film, they work together to assassinate the German ambassador, and eventually grow strong feelings for one another. The two get married and have a daughter named Anna. The husband learns from the Special Operations Executive (SOE) that they suspect his wife to be a German spy and orders him to spy on her to test if their suspicions are true.

People’s culture can cause a variety of conflicts when interacting with a different culture. This is illustrated well with a culture that believes that stealing is bad or is wrong, while another culture believes it is okay. The people in the culture that believes that it is wrong to steal may look at the people in the culture that believes that it is okay in a more negative light, saying “ Those people are unruly degenerates that only want to steal”; the people from the culture that believes that it is okay may view the people from the other culture in a negative light, saying that they are “too stuck up, and persecute us”. The sources that will be displayed are as follows: Crash by (name of the director), will be used to demonstrate the creation

Throughout the film, another important part of its cinematography is the vibrant colors included in the shots. For numerous night scenes in the film, the shots feature flamboyant red, and fluorescence, which strengthen the dynamics that is going on between Travis and the scene. For example, in a scene that takes place outside a diner, where these cabbies usually hang out, Travis is talking to another experiences cabbie named Wizard about his frustration. The main light source of this particular scene is the red light from the neon signs outside the diner; it envelopes the two figures who are having a conversation about cabbie and life, and sets out an eccentric feeling to the dynamics between the characters. The neon signs and the traffic lights

In the movie Halloween, John Carpenter (1978) depicts a horrifying tale of a young man who kills his own sister. Carpenter discloses how a monster murders an innocent in the most terrifying and raging act of lynching. He tries to reveal the film’s image of a woman who learn to fight for justice and life, and he also layers how a certain woman knows how fight back amidst tremors of her life. However, Carpenter’s Halloween offers more than scary scenes and women fighting for survival and fear. It simply suggests that how women in general learn to fight against the dominance of men in general perspectives.

A girl runs frantically through the woods trying to escape an axe wielding villain. The defenseless victim suddenly trips and collapses to the ground. The villain laughs wickedly as he lifts the axe above his head. The girl releases a final scream as the weapon quickly ends her life, causing the audience to go silent as they watch the villain drag away the lifeless body. Death, blood, guts, suspense, screaming, and terror are all just a few things to expect when watching a modern day horror film. What is horror? Horror can be defined as an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust. (Wilson) The description of horror is not very pleasant, but for some reason horror films are extremely popular. Why is this so? People are addicted to the