inspire his horror film Carrie. Carrie is about Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) who is a shy and timid teenager. She is the daughter of Margaret White (Piper Laurie) who is a religious fanatic. Carrie, born with secret telekinetic powers, uses her power to exact revenge on her high school bullies who humiliated her when she had her period at the age of seventeen; Carrie’s menstruation represent her being late in becoming a women. The supernatural film is comprised of affective male characters to support
Part 1; Blood sport In the book Carrie, by Stephen King, Carrie is the daughter of Margret White, she has created her own religion. In the beginning of the story Carrie is a senior at Ewen High School in Chamberlin, Maine. During gym class Carrie get her first period while she is showering, and she believes that she is bleeding to death. Instead of her class mates helping her they start taunting her and throw tampons and sanitary napkins at her. A light bulb explodes, and then her gym teacher, Rita
This Novel, Carrie is written by Stephen King that based on the story of Carrie White, a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with unbelievable telekinetic powers, and is slowly being pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both cruel classmates at her school, and her own absolute, religious mother. One classmate, Sue Snell, feels sorry for Carrie and asks her boyfriend, Tommy Ross, to take Carrie to the senior prom instead of her. But another classmate, Chris Hargensen, is banned
“Final Girl” It’s interesting to see the evolution of horror films as they evolve into something more. Peter Hutchings talks allot about how the old fades away and other grouping and trends start to emerge (216). The film industry itself will always be changing and creating new things, however, most films still haven’t equally balanced out mare and female roles. Generally, most horror films include a monster of some sort. It seems as though most killer/monster roles are taken by men, while women
The Horror Genre The Horror Genre has been very popular ever since Etienne Robertson, the pioneer of film horror, made the first film. The film 'Phantasmagoria' was more of a theatre shadow play. It was made during the French revolution. Since then, thousands of Horror films have been made. Many developments have been used in newer films such as special effects and 3-D animation. A genre is formed when a type of film has certain elements that become essential to that type of film. These
British Horror seems to feature very similar narrative themes and characters. The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005) and Dracula (Terrence Fisher, 1958) are films that present very typical narratives, characters and conventions of British Horror films. British horror mostly follows a definite narrative structure which is usually Todorov’s five steps to a narrative structure; Equilibrium, disruption of equilibrium, realisation of disruption, attempt to repair and finally a reestablishment of the equilibrium
The horror film as a genre is distinctly defined by its recurring elements such as ghosts and bloody violence and by its attitudes toward those elements. One popular example of a recurring element is monsters in horror films that act as material to differentiate horror films from other genres. For example, what appears to distinguish the horror story from fairy tales is the attitude of characters in the story to the monsters they chance upon. In fairy tales, monsters are part of the everyday furniture
Camera Angles: Horror Films Horror films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Horror films effectively centre on the dark side of life, the forbidden, and strange and alarming events. They deal with our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our revulsions
Too many horror films provide scares and screams throughout their respective cinemas. Not many viewers follow what kind of model the films follow to appease their viewers. However, after reading film theorist Carol Clover’s novel, watching one of the films she associates in the novel “Halloween”, and also watching the movie “Nightmare on Elm Street” I say almost every “slasher” or horror film follows a model similar to Clover’s. The model is a female is featured as a primary character and that
Many people live for the adrenaline rush that horror films provide and enjoy the thrill of excitement from jumping out of their seat every couple minutes. With such a large, thrill-seeking audience, the suspense and uncertainty of horror movies causes viewer’s stomach to drop and their heart left racing for hours. As viewers are filled with fear, while they are about lose their minds and are dying of anticipation, they are left with the terrifying experience of covering their eyes and wondering what
Lethal weapon is a crime horror and so is Seven. Seven is a lot darker than lethal weapon as lethal weapon has some humour in it. I think seven is a lot more on the side of the horror but features a lot of police drama as well. The stars are quite similar there is one black star and one white. In seven these are Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt. In both films the plot starts very quickly, in seven the first thing that happens is we get introduced to both characters and the transition from
How Bram Stokers Shows that Dracula is in the Horror Genre The film that I have chosen to study to answer this question is Bram Stokers Dracula. Bram Stoker was the original author of the Dracula novel, and Francis Ford Coppola, director of films such as the Godfather, directed the film Bram Stokers Dracula. The reason he named his film, Bram Stokers Dracula is because he wanted to show that his film was the original story as many films had been made of Dracula, but had been altered and
Hitchcock's Film Psycho Ever since the first horror movies were produced they have attracted huge audiences seeking to be scared, chilled and thrilled. Horror movies are so popular because the audience can get the adrenaline rush of being scared without actually putting themselves in danger, and also the audience ultimately get a rush of relief at the end of the film when the killer is killed. This is the same reason why people go on roller coasters because you get the adrenaline rush and
The horror film has the honor of being one of the few genres aside from the Christmas film to own an entire month out of the year. The moment it becomes October, in the United States especially, the haunting themes of Halloween begin to take over. Anyone can guarantee that if an individual goes out of their house during the October month, they will come into direct contact with pumpkin spice flavored items from coffee to Oreos, Halloween candy in all shapes and forms, and the horror movie. Whether
How The Shining’s formal construction creates tension and horror for the film audience. In my personal opinion Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" is one of the most atmospheric well shot, and edited horror films to come out in the 1980s. The film’s formal construction creates tension and horror for the film audience in a unique way by delivering its scares through the use of intricate shot composition, editing and consistent use of atmosphere to create a sense of constant tension, a unique tension that
In most countries, horror movies are beloved and popular genre for certain group of people who are eager to have different types of feeling and emotion. It usually delivers wired, freaky, uncanny, fearful and uncomfortable feeling to its audiences. There have been thousands ways of expressing fearful emotion to the horror film lovers, however, most horror film have something in common that provokes fearful emotion by using particular context, such as gender discrimination and trauma of wars. Without
popular horror films by topping the charts and making horror film history. Horror films in recent Hollywood time seem to be failing horror fans more than ever, they are believed to be “poorly produced genre pictures and they also fail to inspire any fear within the member of the audience.” (Edward-vkanty). Even though there are a countless amount of people who love the recent Conjuring movies, there are also a vast amount of people who are not fans, these people believe that The Conjuring films are
National Identity is the notion and cohesive whole of a nation. It’s the particular way factors such as culture, language and tradition build a nation. In this essay I will examine how Hong Kong (HK) horror is empirical to the nation’s identity. My case study will be ‘A Chinese Ghost Story’ (1987) as well as other supportive substantiations i.e. Books and websites. The integrity within Chinas national identity is said to be ephemeral changing since the archaic China. After The Treaty of Nanjing (1842-1997)
Terror in Spielberg's Jaws The film ‘Jaws’ exemplifies the statement ‘Sublime terror rests in the unseen- the ultimate horror’. Some people would say that dismemberment and gore is needed to terrorise an audience, but this only shocks and disgusts viewers. A horror film should therefore make the audience imagine the terror in order to maximise the fear factor. Many horror films nowadays use similar techniques to those used by Spielberg in the film ‘Jaws’. They use techniques such as
King the master of horror once said people love watching horror films simply because it keeps their sanity. “It may be that horror movies provide psychic relief on this level because this invitation to lapse into simplicity, irrationality and even outright madness is extended so rarely” (King). When people see a slasher film it gives them a chance to kill off “Annoying Bob” from the office in their heads. Horror films also tell the story about the culture watching them.“Horror films are to an observer