The horror genre in the 2000’s is very different to what it was in 1930, for example a 1930 horror movie would consist of monsters and vampires, whereas nowadays, the new direction it has taken is the teenage slasher movies, such as scream, and my bloody valentine. In the new direction there is more blood and murder, it involves more serial killers, rather than ghosts. So it gives it a more of a real feel behind it to give you that extra scare. Most of these changes came from psycho (1960) In the famous shower scene, when that big, fat kitchen knife, wielded by a mysterious Victorian shrew named Mrs. Bates, came slicing through and down the shower curtain, constantly over and over, into the body of Marion Crane (still its tough to believe or
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What it suggested is that none of us, in the end, are ever truly protected, just like the way this movie changed horror, it could never be set in stone the way that horror movies should look, psycho proved this by changing the game completely. This is where it changed to the new direction of gothic horror, and teenage slasher movies. This is where movies became more realistic. This day and age more predictions for world chaos and destruction such as The Day after Tomorrow and 2012, as well as sickening deaths such as in the film Final Destination. More recently films contain more ghosts and playing with the dead such as Paranormal Activity and The …show more content…
2015 has seen more children and younger people involved in them, because child protection is a huge thing now, so when a child gets abducted or possessed it then plays on peoples emotions. Which gets people coming back for more, and this is how the audience helped mould the new wave of horror movies. Some of the most influential movies in the early to mid 2000’s would be movies like The Ring (2002) this movie introduced a Japanese or Asian type horror to america thus changing the way horror movies are portrayed this movie was one of the first to use a young girl child as a main character. Saw or Hostel were movies which got there own label these were the “torture porn” movies where people were hurt and abused and this was the horror. 28 days later, this was the proof of zombie movies are not dead or the fact that they keep returning either in comedy or back in horror, such as 28 weeks
What it suggested is that none of us, in the end, are ever truly protected, just like the way this movie changed horror, it could never be set in stone the way that horror movies should look, psycho proved this by changing the game completely. This is where it changed to the new direction of gothic horror, and teenage slasher movies. This is where movies became more realistic. This day and age more predictions for world chaos and destruction such as The Day after Tomorrow and 2012, as well as sickening deaths such as in the film Final Destination. More recently films contain more ghosts and playing with the dead such as Paranormal Activity and The …show more content…
2015 has seen more children and younger people involved in them, because child protection is a huge thing now, so when a child gets abducted or possessed it then plays on peoples emotions. Which gets people coming back for more, and this is how the audience helped mould the new wave of horror movies. Some of the most influential movies in the early to mid 2000’s would be movies like The Ring (2002) this movie introduced a Japanese or Asian type horror to america thus changing the way horror movies are portrayed this movie was one of the first to use a young girl child as a main character. Saw or Hostel were movies which got there own label these were the “torture porn” movies where people were hurt and abused and this was the horror. 28 days later, this was the proof of zombie movies are not dead or the fact that they keep returning either in comedy or back in horror, such as 28 weeks