The Horror Movie : The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, a sequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre released in 1974, is a 1986 film directed by Tobe Hooper. This sequel is set 13 years after the events that transpired in the first film and follows Lieutenant "Lefty" Enright, played by Dennis Hopper, on his quest to find and destroy the Sawyer family the Sawyer clan did to his niece, Sally Hardesty, and his nephew, Franklin, in the first film of the franchise. Historically, "horror films developed out of the tradition of Gothic novels from Europe by way of Mary Shelley or Bram Stoker" (Dirks 788). Like these Gothic novels, horror cinema highlights the battle between good and evil whether it is between two separate individuals or entities, or a battle within the self. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2's narrative and description of the fight between good and evil allows for the analysis of theories such as isolation, exploration, transformation, and metamorphosis.

The horror genre is synonymous with images of terror, violence and human carnage; the mere mention of horror movies evokes physical and psychological torture. As remarked by noted author Stephen King “the mythic horror movie…has a dirty job to do. It deliberately appeals to all that is worst in us. It is morbidity unchained, our most base instincts let free, our nastiest fantasies realized.” (King, 786). At manageable intervals, we choose to live these horrific events vicariously through the characters in horror movies and books as a means of safely experiencing the “what if”. The horror genre allows us to explore our fears, be it spiders, vampires, loss of our identity, or death of a loved, under the most fantastic and horrible

Advancing humanity as a whole, technology has changed the way we live. From communication to transportation, we depend on technology to help us get through our day. Introducing the mobile phone, the mass media were hit with a surprise. As a phone that could call through thin air,

General Purpose: To inform the audience about the psychological appeal of the slasher film, a brief history of the genre, and the links to urban legends and fairy tales.

Horror films are alluring to viewers for many reasons. Horror movies have longed to serve a purpose which is to scare and also provide stories about the dark scary side of life. People watch horror movies to get scared, for the thrill and most of all plain old entertainment. Three main characteristics of horror films are according to Maggie McCutcheon is scaring people into creating morals, Stephen King differs and says that horror films are made to let people’s emotion and fears rein free, and Tim Dirks feels that a film must have certain characteristics for a horror film to be considered “good”.

Day in and day out people find themselves rubbernecking down at their phones to reply to a text or check out a new instagram picture that whomever posted. Correspondingly, phones and the internet play a monumental role in our society today as how humans communicate relies solely on these devices. Comparable to our phones, our society craves horror such as in horror films and books. One specific horror film that is famous in the U.S. is The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, involving five kids that stumble upon an eery home. How would this movie change if the cell phones used today were an invention in this time period? An upgrade in technology would change this movie drastically by the ways and systems of transportation, communication, and

Horror films have been around for over 100 years, petrifying people and bringing their worst fears to life but still they can’t get enough of this sick and gory genre that is unbelievably entertaining and captivating to the audience. Horror comes with many sub-genres from your bloody slashers like Friday the 13th to your Supernatural-Horrors like The Exorcist, but in the end they all seem to do their job by scaring you and leaving you with nightmares for weeks on end. Usually Horror’s films have the same character stereotypes such as the nerd, the jock, the slut, the virgin, the junky, the tough hero, the unlikely hero and last but not least the masked murderer, but yet they all play their own part in the making of these horrors movies whether it is the extremely slow walk the killer does but almost always catches the victim, or the unwise decision to split up and investigate where the unusual noise is coming from.

Horror movies are based on humanity’s disturbing, inner thoughts that are kept hidden by sophisticated and civilized facades. The fact that people pay money to go watch their own race be slaughtered shows that civilization has two sides. There are many theories as to why humans act the way they do, such as Steven King’s “beast within” and “potential lyncher” theories and Stanley Solomon’s “exploration” and “romantic isolationism” theories. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 does a fantastic job of displaying these theories about the horror genre if one knows what they are looking for. Learning about why humans react the way they do to horror films based on the theories of well-known psychologists and horror writers can teach humans a

Cellphones…. These devices have helped us humans out very much. They help us if we don’t know what a definition is. They help us call our parents or family members when we need something or we need to tell them something when you’re in a store and they’re at home. The most important thing they do is give us the option to call 911. When you’re in a state of emergency your phone gives you the option

I think the most important insight in the Chapter 10 is that history of mobile media. In 1870s, two inventors, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Next the two-way mobile radios were appeared by the World War II. The devices were used in the car… However, the early two-way-radios were not perfect, it communicated range of 5 t o10 miles as well as people who stayed in this area that could listen. So the cell technology had to be developed by Bell Labs. Following this from 1983 until now, the cell phones became the majority people’s devices. Over time, it was a great developed in the society and brought convenience to people’s life. Nowadays, cell phone cannot leave my hands. Especially when I go outside, cell phone provides me to check the news, chat with my friends, and use the map on the cell phone…

After, King say’s that we watch theses creepy films gives us a “feeling of normality”(1)

Nowadays everyone has a cell phone. From 80 year olds to 10 year olds, almost everyone has a cell phone. In remaking The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for current times I feel like adding cell phones would be a major key in helping the movie fit our generation. For example, the “hitchhiker” wouldn’t be a hitchhiker in today’s society, so the only thing I could think of to have the teenagers pick up a random person was if Franklin was using a dating app and was going to pick up someone he has been talking to. Franklin would be talking about how he has been talking to this girl for a while now, and he wanted to bring her with on the teenagers trip. They would eventually find her waiting at a bus stop to be picked up by Franklin and the rest of the teenagers. Franklin described how caring and loving this girl was online. This girl could be a new family member of the killers from the old movie. When she gets in the van Franklin notices right away she doesn’t look like her profile picture did online. Online she was a short blonde girl that had a couple blue streaks in her hair, but when the teenagers pick her up they pick up a tall girl with jet black hair. She could eventually go crazy and the teenagers kick her out like they did with the hitchhiker in the original (Texas Chain Saw Massacre). After they kick the crazy girl out, Pam would go on to read off of her phone all the horoscopes that she is obsessed with. Pam talks about how Franklin’s birthday is coming up in early november making him a Scorpio. She continues to say how this month's horoscope for Scorpios says how these next couple of days will be strugglesome and frustrating. Another way cell phones would change the movie would be if the lost someone in the group they would just call them to try and figure out where they are. When Kirk and Pam go missing, someone would most likely end up calling their

When the film, Gone Girl (2014) was released, iPhones and cell phones in general had become an essential part of everyday life. Storytellers now can develop plots entirely around a character’s habitual use of their cell phone. Part of Gone Girl’s plot stems from a selfie taken with the main character, played by Ben Affleck, and a woman using her iPhone. Which is completely different from when phones could only make phone calls from telephones connected to the wall and cable cord. The evolution of cellphones shows us how our behaviors have evolved as well.

Why scary stories are interesting to watch?to express our emotions. Why so many people like horror ? to show we are not afraid to take risk Why people find scary stories more interesting than regular stories?More action and each scary story express interesting scary,thrilling stories..Stephen King's claim is true-we crave horror to face our fears ,to establish our feelings of normalcy and to experience a peculiar sort of fun.

In 2013, the horror movie Mama was nominated for several different awards including: Saturn awards, Young artist award, MTV movie awards, People’s choice awards, and the Golden trailer awards. Out of all the awards listed, Mama won the best horror movie from the Golden Trailer awards in 2013. Mama is a woman who had lost her life trying to get her daughter back from nuns in an asylum. Her spiritual ghost had adopted two young girls who were abandoned by their father in the woods located in Virginia. When the girls were found, and returned to family members, the ghost Mama gets upset and tries to get the girls back in her care any way possible. The movie Mama portrays a back story of a ghost named Mama who loves children. Therefore, the ghost demonstrates a message that mothers will do whatever it takes to care for their children. For example, although the two girls were not biologically Mama’s kids, she raised and loved the girls as if they were her own kin. Another example would be when the girls’ biological Uncle Lucas brought the girls home, Mama followed and continuously tried to take them back. She would harm and even kill anyone who tried to stop her from taking back her babies. Mama demonstrates how mothers will always portray unconditional love for their children.