Has anyone ever stopped and thought about why movie remakes exist? There is always a simple explanation to this conception, and it’s either that Hollywood directors are “lazy” or that Hollywood wants to destroy our childhood scares. For the most part, Hollywood isn’t literally attempting to become futile or destroy the integrity of films, but it’s much for the profit of recreating former popular movies. In addition to that, the revamp graphic quality allows for older movie plots to compete against their modern counterparts, but there still remains an issue. In order to reestablish an older horror film, a newer one has to take its place for the sake of pleasing the current technologically adept generation; however, alterations may completely …show more content…
Obviously, one apparent reason that they existed was to provide profit to the film industries. Due to severe wartime, many apprehensive Americans visited cinemas to watch horror films in order to take their minds off of reality (Eggertsen). To some extent, there were that people used scary movies as a way to put themselves into their own horror realm, in others words, to substitute real horror with virtual horror. The film industries would 've taken this factor as an advantage to become wealthy, but there was another concept that promoted horror films even further. According to Tim Dirks, a popular film critic for the award-winning Greatest Films site, horror movies are only just as good as their scare elements and not by other factors, such as technology. On the Greatest Films site, Dirks further explained, "Horror films, when done well and with less reliance on horrifying special effects, can be extremely potent film forms, tapping into our dream states and the horror of the irrational and unknown, and the horror within man himself" (Dirks). Horror movies that are consistent of unique and effective scare elements, as identified by Dirks, already promote themselves to the audience by allowing good feedback and …show more content…
According to a statistical report on The Numbers, the budget for the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was $140,000 with a gross of over $30 million (“Box Office History for Texas”). The profit ratio of the original came out to be one of 220. In the remake, the budget was $9.5 million, while the domestic profit calculated out as over $80 million (“Box Office History for Texas”). That’s a ratio of just one to eight! Another popular movie example is the original and remake of Friday the 13th. According to Friday the 13th Franchise site, the estimated budget to produce the original was $500,000 that sold enough tickets to reach a staggering $40 million (Parker). According to The Numbers, the initial budget for the remake was almost half of the original’s profit with a profit ratio of just one to four (“Box Office History for Friday”). Clearly, the remake spent the majority of the budget on special effects as opposed to the much cheaper expenditures of the
...dience long after the film reels have stopped turning. The idea of a “scary movie” could be innocuous enough, if it is simply frights and ghoulish images, but Nosferatu raised the bar and discovered how to delve into a collective mindset and produce a truly unsettling product. Germany’s residual shame and concern regarding World War I made Nosferatu a gripping, telling exploration of a nation’s psyche.
Analysis of Halloween by John Carpenter and Evil Dead by Sam Raimi The horror genre is characterized by the attempt to make the viewer experience dread, fear and terror. Some of the most common elements include vampires, zombies and werewolves. One of the films which I am going to analyze is “Halloween” by John Carpenter which starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence. This film was made in 1978; this was considered the film which started the “slasher film” genre. This genre was continued in dozens of violent movies throughout the 1980s.
Some would say watching horror movies and being scared out of your wits is a fun way to spend their hard earned money. They go see these movies on average once a week, each time choosing a newer version of a trilogy like “Chucky” or “The evil Dead”. Film making has come a long way over the last few decades, the graphic...
To begin with, some people would say they enjoy a horror movie that gets them scared out of their wits. They go see these movies once a month on average, for fun, each time choosing a newer sequel like “Final Destination” or “The evil Dead”. King says “When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie we are daring the nightmare” (405). As a writer of best-sel...
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The Importance of Aesthetic Distance in American Horror Movies What then do we make of American horror movies? In the canon of horror pictures they almost always come second in respect to foreign horror movies and any American horror film that is considered to be artful is the one with the most aesthetic distance. Upscale slashers like Johnathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (1991) or David Fincher's Seven (1995) are both gruesome and bloody borrowing many of the same shock techniques as their lower budget counterparts (for example, Russell Mulchahy's Sevenish thriller Resurrection (1999)), both focus on the body and its violation, either through sexual means or violent means, and both feature villains who fit easily into Carol Clover's
Horror films are designed to frighten the audience and engage them in their worst fears, while captivating and entertaining at the same time. Horror films often center on the darker side of life, on what is forbidden and strange. These films play with society’s fears, its nightmare’s and vulnerability, the terror of the unknown, the fear of death, the loss of identity, and the fear of sexuality. Horror films are generally set in spooky old mansions, fog-ridden areas, or dark locales with unknown human, supernatural or grotesque creatures lurking about. These creatures can range from vampires, madmen, devils, unfriendly ghosts, monsters, mad scientists, demons, zombies, evil spirits, satanic villains, the possessed, werewolves and freaks to the unseen and even the mere presence of evil.
Movies of the past had a different approach to scaring the audience. In the 20th century, scary movies were more than entertainment. They were designed to lure the viewer into buying the action figures and tee shirts that the movie had spawned.
People are addicted to the synthetic feeling of being terrified. Modern day horror films are very different from the first horror films which date back to the late nineteenth century, but the goal of shocking the audience is still the same. Over the course of its existence, the horror industry has had to innovate new ways to keep its viewers on the edge of their seats. Horror films are frightening films created solely to ignite anxiety and panic within the viewers. Dread and alarm summon deep fears by captivating the audience with a shocking, terrifying, and unpredictable finale that leaves the viewer stunned.
Millions of people around the world attend the movie theatre and among those millions of people they all share the same thing; the love for movies. There are movies of all genres that appeal to each person in this world, and yet many people find themselves sharing the same love for classic original movies; such movies in particular may include: Carrie, Godzilla, Footloose, and Psycho. Once someone has seen a movie and is en-captured by what the film means, how it was able to tug at their heart strings, the way a horror film was able to give them the chills, and the connection they made to the main character; people do not want anything about the film to change. For many remaking a classic film takes away the quality from the original film
Would you rather be horrified beyond repair or thrilled to the point of no return? In horror, the main purpose is to invoke fear and dread into the audience in the most unrealistic way. Horror movies involve supernatural entities such as ghosts, vampires, teleportation, and being completely immortal. As thriller films are grounded in realism and involve more suspense, mystery, and a sense of panic. Though both genres will frighten the audience, it will happen in two different ways. Whether the horror thrills or the thriller horrifies, a scare is always incorporated.
There are movies that are made in South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong. Some of the best movies from these places are transformed into an American version. The movies that are shown in America are not exactly how the original movies are created. Graham states that David Leong says “Personally, I think ‘remakes’ are a good thing because it provides exposure for the original source material” (Graham 230). Scenes can be added to make the movies more suspenseful or some of the show may get taken out because it is too violent. “American audiences are sometimes cheated of an original film’s
Every year new movies are released and I am always impressed the quality and effort put into making an effective
Over the years horror movies have become a big part of cinema business. Teenagers and adults like to watch scary movies because of the adrenaline rush. Every scary movie includes unexpected scenes that make the movie interesting and frightening. It is very terrifying that, parents are allowing their children to watch horror movies. This can be very harmful for children’s mental health. Watching really scary movies and cartoons, and even playing scary games, has many lasting side effects on children. When we watch those horror movies with kids, unknowingly we might hurt their feelings. To be more precise, it can easily affect their nervous systems. Unexpected loud scenes in horror movies may scare children easily. Horror movies can create negative
Coming from a Multimedia background, I am incredibly passionate about filming and editing. From an early age, I always loved playing around with cameras, filming as well as editing just anything that I enjoyed watching on TV, or even something filmed by myself. Being so passionate about film and editing have led me to doing my Bachelor of Creative Arts Honours. My goal for this year is to come up with 2 horror short films where I can showcase my skills in both filming and editing, as well as my creative thinking. I was inspired by Blumhouse Productions to come up with my own horror film where I can integrate interactivity within my film.