From Psycho to The World’s End: How Have Horror Movies Changed Over Time? You’re taking a shower at The Bates Motel. Out of the blue, creepy music starts to build up in the background. You see the silhouette of a man with kitchen knife through the shower curtain. The music keeps building up, stronger by the second. He opens the curtain, and you’re stabbed to death! On the other hand, in 2015, a group of friends gather at a bar to run through 12 pubs in a day. During the pub tour, they encounter alien androids, which begin to hunt them down. They are chased through all the pubs, encountering even more androids along the way. When they reach the final pub, they trigger an explosion that sends the world back to the Dark Ages. Can you tell how
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They would attract millions of people due to how amazing they were made. Movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream, and Halloween have been a few of the most successful horror movies of all time. These movies have such a huge following, they are considered the fathers of horror films. The one thing they have in common? There a psychopathic killer who always tracks down the victims and delivers them a fiery death. No matter how hard the victims try, they always end up dead, all except for the sole survivor who lives on and usually appears in the sequel. Freddy Krueger would haunt and kill people in their nightmares, Jason Vorhees would kill the teens in the camp, Ghostface would ask you “What’s your favorite scary movie?” in a chilling voice before murdering a victim, and Michael Myers would kill you and skin you! That’s what 90 percent of movies in the modern times are missing. Their main antagonist is not crazy enough. They always stretch things so far that it bores the audience. Modern day horror movies include weird aliens that come to abduct the child, as we see in the movie Dark Skies. In the movie, they do an amazing job at building up to the climax. The aliens mutilate the characters, mess with their heads, and ultimately take one of their children. The bad thing with that movie is that they begin to show the antagonists (the aliens, they call The Greys) when the movies is almost done. That key factor, knowing what your enemy looks like, gives the audience a desire to see them more, which in turn attracts more attention. When you don’t know who the killer is, all you do is wonder who it is, therefore losing focus in the thrills and scares. That’s another reason why movies like Halloween are heavily popular. They give you a background story on the antagonist, as well as show you who he is and what you can expect from him or
They would attract millions of people due to how amazing they were made. Movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream, and Halloween have been a few of the most successful horror movies of all time. These movies have such a huge following, they are considered the fathers of horror films. The one thing they have in common? There a psychopathic killer who always tracks down the victims and delivers them a fiery death. No matter how hard the victims try, they always end up dead, all except for the sole survivor who lives on and usually appears in the sequel. Freddy Krueger would haunt and kill people in their nightmares, Jason Vorhees would kill the teens in the camp, Ghostface would ask you “What’s your favorite scary movie?” in a chilling voice before murdering a victim, and Michael Myers would kill you and skin you! That’s what 90 percent of movies in the modern times are missing. Their main antagonist is not crazy enough. They always stretch things so far that it bores the audience. Modern day horror movies include weird aliens that come to abduct the child, as we see in the movie Dark Skies. In the movie, they do an amazing job at building up to the climax. The aliens mutilate the characters, mess with their heads, and ultimately take one of their children. The bad thing with that movie is that they begin to show the antagonists (the aliens, they call The Greys) when the movies is almost done. That key factor, knowing what your enemy looks like, gives the audience a desire to see them more, which in turn attracts more attention. When you don’t know who the killer is, all you do is wonder who it is, therefore losing focus in the thrills and scares. That’s another reason why movies like Halloween are heavily popular. They give you a background story on the antagonist, as well as show you who he is and what you can expect from him or