Horror

Socialization The following socialization agents have contributed to my social development: family, nature, nurture, gender socialization, school, peer groups, and mass media. Family has contributed a lot to who I am today. Family has shown me how to behave in public and how to behave at home. It always has shaped my personality. I grew up in a home where my mother didn’t really take care of me and my siblings. I had to mature much quicker than other children and learn how to take care of…

unwanted sounds as we can avert our gaze to stop seeing something” (Lerner, 2010). When it came to film music, horror films allowed for greater experimentation in regards to harmony and instrumentation. Due to the nature of horror films where the intention is to scare and make one feel uneasy it wasn’t uncommon for soundtracks to be effects laden or to have sudden stinger chord. Horrors films were noted in playing music and visual against each other where the most tonal and non eventful of…

lurking in the woods can make the most formidable characters cower in fear. This show can utilize the horrors of a post-apocalyptic world and create a group of survivors holding on to their humanity a family that will do anything for one another. This is the world of The Walking Dead. There have been multiple television shows and movies that focus on zombies, however, The Walking Dead takes horror television quality to a new length with astonishing plot twists, complex characters, and powerful…

“Tim had always been a fan of classic horror movies,” Welch said. “He watched them religiously as a child, and knows everything about them. That’s the point of reference. That’s his world.” This quote shows that horror films greatly influenced the movie and how he wanted Edward portrayed. Drawing has also been a significant part of Tim Burton’s life. He expresses it as a need…

edge of my seat until the very end, and played on all of my fears, and made me so terrified i didn’t sleep alone, or unarmed for a week. How do writers make people terrified, or suspenseful? Writers use four common methods to create suspense. A horror writer may use foreshadowing…

Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film”, she explores a new emerging pattern in horror cinema where the woman herself becomes the hero. Clover’s purpose in writing her article is to help her audience become familiar with the idea of cross gender identification. This is where the male audience is compelled to associate themselves with the strong independent female. In this essay, I will analyze how Clover uses female characters in horror films to display the visible adjustment in terms of gender…

The Repetition of History, and Why it Shouldn’t In Stephen Crane’s The Monster a doctor successfully prevents the death of Henry, the black man who serves the doctor’s family, from a house fire. In attempt to rescue Doctor Trescott’s son from the top floor, the house engulfed in flame burns and severely maims the Henry. Although Henry was not the one who ultimately pulled the boy from the fire, Doctor Trescott believes Henry was actually the man who saved his son. Overlooking the guidance given…

The medium of film can be a very powerful and a profound way to captivate audience and immerse them in the experiences of the characters in the film to make them feel as if they themselves are there with them. Horror movies in general are almost always filled with special effects and props to improve the experience of the audience and leave them in anticipation with what’s to come. In the original The Evil Dead directed by Sam Raimi released in 1981 uses a lot of conventional methods of…

genders and sexes. One was either male or female and that heavily determined a person’s role in society. Through discussion of Frankenstein (1931) and Cat People (1942), this essay will seek to explore the use of gendered tropes in classical Hollywood horror films and their negative effect on how individuals are treated in popular culture.…

Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its 2003 remake. Based on multiple critics, the remake did not at all match the level of horror of its predecessor; nonetheless, it did contain even more gore, bones, and severed limbs that many viewers found highly disturbing (Ebert). The film in its entirety became “the formula of a Dead Teenager Movie” that incorporated more uneasy scenes than actual horror compared to the low-budget, yet highly terrifying original (Ebert). Despite the higher focus of gory…