The Horror

The problem with these types of movies is most often they depict people with different disabilities as scary, evil, or dangerous. A great example of this is the popular show of American Horror Story. This show has a character or many characters that have disabilities within every season. The first season showed a child who has down syndrome and they showed her as scary, socially inept, and someone who should wish to be a normal girl. For…

style that influences and defines a certain genre of film. Truffault spearheaded the French New Wave movement with his use of film stock, mood, and unique character perspective, whereas Hitchcock ushered in the use of suspense and surprise in the Horror movie genre. Both are visionaries who led the way for film in the future. In the movie Psycho, Hitchcock delves into the world of a voyeur, with his mise-en-scene…

The audience picks their entertainment because they want it to influence them. Positively valid for individuals who go to amusement items like thrillers and horror movies that have enormous impacts. Audiences can vary when it comes to movies and depending on the genre displayed. In the usual sense of nature people would think this monster would simply attract adults and teens. The truth would conclude that the…

a supernatural character or origin. The second definition defines it as something that is beyond normal or beyond what is expected. In Sigmund Freud’s The “Uncanny,” Freud describes “uncanny” as a term that brings a feeling of “dread and creeping horror” (Freud 1) to a person. Freud further explains in his description that the “uncanny” can be undefinable at times. Throughout the rest of his essay, Freud tries to define and describe what the “uncanny” is. The journal articles written by Robin…

One of the first Asian Masters of Horror, Japanese director Nobuo Nakagawa offered up numerous exceptional horror films in the late 1950s and early 60s with scores of important and legendary titles. After several tales offering variations of ghost tales, Nakagawa decided to go for a more existential tale of remorse and greed which scored him one of the biggest hits of his career and secured his reputation with a vengeance leading to who he is today. Trying to move on in life, Shiro Shimizu…

few seconds. The creepy computer-generated Voldemort fetus was utterly terrifying to a six-year-old (I got started on Harry Potter at a very young age). Because of this early experience, transformation has always been one of the scariest aspects of horror to me. It can take something normal or natural and morph it into an unnatural monstrosity. Transformation in stories meant to terrify may have a broader definition than…

It’s easy to compare Pulp Fiction with Kill Bill. Most people who watch these movies are so wrapped in the violence that they don’t really see the many different layers about the violence in these films. Pulp Fiction is more of a movie about a mobster culture whose tied with a sense of morality that in some ways resembled our own. There were good deeds, and there was betrayal. The movie made the world seem cold-hearted, and didn’t give much hope for ethics or even a twisted spirituality. The…

felt a genuine sense of fear. That wasn’t until I visited the first haunted house of the Halloween season. During my childhood, I was overly obsessed with horror movies and anything that was guaranteed to send shivers down my spine. I lived to seek for blood and guts. I lived to seek for scary. I lived to seek the abnormal. Everything in the horror genre, fascinated me, but scared me at the same time. So when I finally got old enough to go out on my own, my mother agreed to let me go off to a…

The Blob The cult classic 1958 film “The Blob” starring a young Steve McQueen, is not only interesting to watch, it also gives the viewer a number of insights into that era. The milieu in Post World War II America is the dominant sign in the film. The era is the signified and there are a number of signifiers. The film begins with the theme song “Beware of the Blob, it creeps and leaps…” and the viewer is made aware of the fascination for monsters that Americans had during that period. Spook…

When I’m talking about the difficulties that go along with being a woman in a male-dominated environment, it’s from experience. Having competed in a field with 50 other guys, I’m pretty familiar with feeling out of place and unwelcome. That situation was definitely unfavorable for me, but I cannot begin to imagine being put in a job field of only men that is also as grueling as the Behavioral Science Unit in the FBI. This is where FBI trainee Clarice Starling finds herself in Jonathan Demme’s…