Halifax Slasher

The movie that I kept thinking about while watching Raw was 2000's Ginger Snaps. Both are horror movies revolving around a couple of sisters as they discover that their bodies are betraying them and turning them into different types of creatures - used as a metaphor to explain something that women go through in their lives. Ginger Snaps had werewolves; Raw has cannibals. Ginger Snaps took place in high school and used its transformation as a puberty metaphor. Raw is in college and uses cannibalism

trying to escape a crazed masked maniacs. Scream failed to pose a challenge to the “virgin’’ Mary cliche’ because in the scene when Sidney,the main character, loses her virginity to her boyfriend, immediately after, she is seen being chased by the slasher because she is no longer represents the

In the movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas” everyone debates whether it is a Christmas or Halloween movie. Nightmare before Christmas is a Halloween. Some people think it’s a Christmas movie. This essay will explain why “The Nightmare Before Christmas” is a Halloween movie. One reason that the movie is Halloween is that most of the songs in the movie were creepy. For example the first song “This is Halloween.” Obviously it is Halloween because of the title. Also in the movie when they

conventions of the horror film. In fact it may seem that the horror genre uses this visual medium to perpetuate the message that women should be looked at as victims worthy of gruesome deaths. By taking a closer look at the horror film, particularly the slasher sub-genre,

Horrifying Health Benefits Every day a family watches various movies whether it romance, comedy, science fiction or even action. The most beneficial out of the many genres is that of horror. Horror movies have many unknown health benefits people find hard to believe. These movies help by improving on only your body but your mind as well. “How?” you may ask; it not only boosts your immune system but can also help you lose weight and even sharpens your mind to be more alert in any situation. Some

ending will always like return to normalcy and victory over the monstrous. I believe that this is the ending which most audiences wish to be. There are a few of sub-genres in horror films which are slasher flicks, supernatural and psychological and they are widely adapted in hybrid films nowadays. Slasher flicks as known as massacre is a type of horror film that usually involves murders killing the victims in a violent manner and usually with a tool like knife, axe or others. For examples are serial

vampire films, gothic horrors and slashers. The Slasher film has become a defining subgenre of the horror film. While the origins of the slasher come from their predecessor the Italian giallo films they have had a massive American influence in recent times. The turning point in the themes and aesthetics of these films was Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Psycho (1960). Psycho (1960) was the launching pad for slasher films to exhibit the features that make up today’s slasher films. This essay will look at

specifically high school or college girls, are used as the main character. Whether it’s a group of teenage girls or one singled out, they always tend to be the center of attention. Why is this specific gender and age chosen to take the main role in slasher films? Girls of the ages between sixteen and twenty-two featured in these types of films usually occur to fall under some of the same categories. They are all characterized as stereotypical teenage/young adult girls being viewed as clueless and weak

The first time I watched a horror movie, I was nine years old. While all of my cousins shrieked and closed their eyes, I felt totally engaged. Will we become more violent if we watch these movies? Will we become a gore-loving, emotionally insensitive society? What is it about scary movies that we love so much? It all comes back to the Human Condition. Facing our fears, establishing our sense of normalcy, and experiencing a weird sort of fun are all solid claims that Stephen King states in his essay

consider nazi cruelty and child torture morally impermissible, and that we should recognize the moral desensitization that occurs in letting horror films be a source of pleasure. Throughout my essay I will provide Gianiuca DiMuzio’s argument that slasher, gorefest, and horror (which I will refer under the blanket term of horror) are immoral and present his response to objections that he addresses, then I will argue that his claim is correct, but it is not sufficient for claiming all of horror as immoral