Slasher film

The fall of the studio film system gave rise to independent films. This rise showed America that you did not need a big budget and famous actors to draw in a large audience at the box office. One genre that really took off was the horror genre. This genre plays on the fear of human kind whether it be demons, ghosts, or monsters which are supernatural beings which one does not have a defense for. One may also have the fear of death or pain which could be caused by another human being; this fear…

but when examining its body up front, we will see a whole new description. Dark, textured skin, three nostrils, white hair, and a very human-like body figure. It’s almost as if The Creeper is a person, or once was a person, but the writers of the film never elaborated on where he came from in the first…

The article Sex and Violence in Slasher Films: Re-examining the Assumption written by Barry S. Sapolsky, Fred Molitor, and Sarah Luque observes a research on cruel, violent and sexual images in horror movies from the 1980s to 1990s. The main point of the article is researching on victims' gender and connection between sex and murders in slashers. Horror movies of the 1960s-1970s were thrillers featuring awful bloodbath. Blood and violent picture attracted audience of young movie fans. Such…

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…

(2005) can be called a horror film, it may easily be classified as a slasher film. Slasher films typically revolve around a twisted serial killer molded by adversity faced throughout life. They usually target young, attractive adults in desolate areas. Throughout the movie, Jaume Coller-Serra effectively uses these common characteristics in his film along with a few others. After 1978 people began to view horror films differently. Instead of connecting horror films to supernatural creatures…

In Linda Williams “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess”, she discusses the way films can provide viewers with a sensational reaction to the physicality of the body whether being in acts of pleasure or pure disgust. What I found interesting was Williams perspective on the way one receives what her adolescent son phrases as “gross” movies. Williams’s depiction of “gross” movies are horror films that tend to have vigorous violence or disdain towards female promiscuous characters. A convention of…

Unlike horror films, action films are not produced to scare or frighten the audience. Some action films could be produced just for entertainment or to tell a story of which was true. Others could inspire or courage the audience to be that one person who acts like that “hero” type person in the film. The sub-genres of action films are epic movies, spy movies, disaster movies, superhero, thriller, martial arts, and video game movies. Some examples of action films are Braveheart, James Bond,…

Horror films are designed to scare and disgust viewers with evil characters, plots and events that can range from realistic to completely supernatural. Nobody will ever really understand why people would prefer to put on a horror DVD rather than a nice, relaxing comedy that won't make you jump out of your seat. However, the horror genre has been around for years with classics from Dracula and Frankenstein to modern day versions such as The Hills Have Eyes and The Ring. A horror DVD is the top…

horror film and literature discourse community. According to Swales, there are six characteristics that make up a discourse community. They are common public goals, mechanisms of intercommunication among members, participatory mechanisms to provide information and feedback, utilizing one or more genres in communication, a specific lexis, and a threshold level of members with a degree of relevant content and discourse expertise (Swales 471-473).…

gruesome, so why do people crave it? Horror films have grown and developed over the past decades. Our society established new fears and Hollywood is ready to make money off of us. Scary…