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Title Film Essay Horror Film Yulund Sparkman McComb High School I will be explaining the history of horror films and the effects it made on the american society. Many movie producers create the illusions of horror this world has ever seen. The creativity comes form the atmosphere of thinking of unreal creatures in a reality like way. We will begin breaking down critical observation through first view although the people making movies may be just as oblivious to the cultural attitudes shaping their cinematic stories as the people who watch them. Showing the action is often what the most profitable movies are all about. A movies story consists of all explicit and …show more content…

The first horror movie was about vampaires that thirst For blood like the movie Nosseratu in (1922) but its mainly about offering hearts and random deaths. The evolution of vampire movies lead on to the movie Blade which had a lot of action in it but not enough horror. Vampires strike fear of powerful elements in society.The Last exorcism and the conjuring have supernatural spirits with demon like characteristics. Some would say these movies based off a true story but mostly the movie producers take information from articles or newspapers to create an ideal of what kind of movie they want to make. For example freddy korgers was nothing more than a dead body in the woods but soon the film creator made him into a nightmare killer. Mostly these scary movies are so predictable you can tell when the killer is about to come out. My ideal is that scary movies should have more jump scares because the audience would never know when its coming or going to happen. The effects are going to bring out the horror more. Within every scary movie there is story about

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