And last but not least is the villain in these movies. Most of the killers in these films are portrayed as mentally deranged and/or has some type of facial or bodily deformation and who have been traumatized at an early age. Even though these characters terrorized and murder people they have taken on the persona of anti-heroes in pop culture. Characters like Halloween’s Michael Myers, A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger and Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees have become the reason to go see
lead to a sadistic lifestyle in one of his studies and critiques on the horror film Texas Chainsaw Massacre, whereas views conveyed by King (2007) towards the genre are simply recreational and meant for adrenalin addicts. Ear piercing screams, blood splatters, loneliness, violence and isolated surroundings are only a handful of the themes mentioned in the analysis by Di Muzio in the movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre. These themes haunt the viewers significantly and especially children. The movie starts
too, but are not shown as being so defenseless. Females are commonly shown getting killed slowly and getting carried off into the night screaming. On the other hand males will be killed quickly with fewer struggles. For example in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre when the men go into the house where the butcher lives, they are killed with one smash of a sledge hammer with the camera at a distance. Where as, when the first girl goes in she is seen grabbed and put on the shoulder of the butch and carried
Texas Chainsaw Massacre was the first movie to use Ed Gein’s man-eating behavior. “The events of that day were to lead to the discovery of one of the most bizarre crimes in the annals of American history, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (CITE). The movie is about five friends. The main characters, Sally and Franklin, want to visit their grandfather’s graveyard because there were reports about grave robbing on the news. After seeing the tombstone, the five friends decided to go visit grandpa’s house
Horror movies generally are all the same. They all have been based off of something that has already happened or a previous movie. Society has paid to be entertained by these gruesome stories that we all truly fear. Before movies, people would purchase books of similar tramatic events to read in their spare time for amusement. Writters such as Bram Stoker created graphic novels that grabbed peoples attention for years to come. But the horror movie, The House Of The Devil(1896), was noted as being
into the slasher category, but also to provide a window into the culture that they cater to. In order to present a specific example of each archetype, I have chosen four films that are exemplary of the overall sub-genre. Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) tells the story of a van full of traveling teenagers and their run-in with a family of backwoods cannibals. John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) has killer Michael Myers strangling baby-sitters on the night of said movie title. Sean Cunningham's
Halloween, for example, the majority of victims are female. But in Friday the 13th and Graduation Day the victims are as often male as female; in Happy Birthday to Me all but one of the killer’s victims are male. (90) In movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Nightmare on Elm Stre... ... middle of paper ... ...a Hill. Dir. John Carpenter. Prod. Debra Hill. With Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence. Compass, 1978. Nightmare on Elm Street. Written and Dir. Wes Craven. Prod
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer from the mid to late nineteenth century. The term masochism was derived from his name due to the nature of his renowned romance novels. In his literary analysis of Sacher-Masoch’s novels, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, in 1967, brought attention to the importance of an assistant, ‘an agreement between partners, which Sacher-Masoch had literized by drawing up actual contract,’ (O’Dell, 1998, p.4). However, earlier, in the late nineteenth
The Babadook and Mental Health One might argue that the scariest horror films are those films which horrors portray a sense that something of that nature might actually happen in the real world. The beauty of horror films is that anything could theoretically be possible, like Freddy Krueger sticking his tongue through Nancy’s phone as he says, “I’m your boyfriend now, Nancy” or a horde of zombies stampeding through the cities of the United States wiping out humanity in its path. If one thinks
Women Portrayed in Horror and Film Noir Films Works Cited Not Included Horror films have always been more attractive to the male viewer than to the female viewer. Why is that? Usually horror films mainly present the audience with very graphic mutilation and the raping of females, more so than their male counterparts. Horror films have always depicted females as either objects or as the victim of a horrible act. In Linda William's essay 'When the Woman Looks,' she says that 'there is not that
The film American Psycho has strong references to the American consumer culture of elitists in the 1980s. However, the film main reflects popular culture among elitists in the time period but it also applies to a broader spectrum of the population. The main character is personally obsessed in a way with pop culture to be able to emulate others and apply that to how he should act. According to imdb.com this film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on April 14, 2000. At the time it was called a
“experiencing contrived fears, a person develops a sense of competence over similar types of fears.” (Schaller). Horror films allow the viewer the opportunity to safely examine their fears safely and to the depth and extent they wish to do so. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 provides the opportunity for the viewer to consider a diverse range of fears, with a little humor thrown in for balance, from the safety of a darkened room, a comfortable seat and in less than 120 minutes. Psychoanalyst Carl Jung suggested
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
In the first film, Bughuul was sly and sinister enough to remain a shadowy mystery – only to have this latest installment treat him like an angry puppet master that isn’t capable of carrying out his own dastardly plans. Like the Saw franchise, though, Sinister 2 features an array of unique murder sequences – varying from electrocution and Alligator (or Crocodiles) decapitations to lighting victims ablaze on a cross and forcing vermin to munch on people’s insides. Jigsaw would
Ambria Cassidy Karlins ENC1102 03/31/2014 Horror as a Window into Cultural Taboo, Attitudes, and History. From the classic America-made Texas Chainsaw Massacre that our parents sat down to into the seventies, to the Japanese horror hit Ju-On: The Curse, horror has become an important genre in film culture. Horror films and their contents have changed with the generations, a constant ebb and flow and reflections of the deep-seated fears and underlying attitudes still prevalent in global societies
civilization has two sides. There are many theories as to why humans act the way they do, such as Steven King’s “beast within” and “potential lyncher” theories and Stanley Solomon’s “exploration” and “romantic isolationism” theories. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 does a fantastic job of displaying these theories about the horror genre if one knows what they are looking for. Learning about why humans react the way they do to horror films based on the theories of well-known psychologists and horror
however, the character of Leatherface and minor plot details were inspired by the crimes of real-life murderer Ed Gein, similar to Psycho’s Norman Bates and Silence of the Lamb’s Buffalo Bill. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is without a doubt a horror movie. It features a group of friends traveling through the Texas state to a homestead belonging to the family of one of the group. Along the way, they pick up a hitchhiker who proves to be more than they bargained for, so they ditch him. The group separates
surrounding neighbors saying she was beaten and raped by a “Nigger”. Once Sheriff Walker arrived at Fannie Taylor’s house, she told him that a black man just beat her. After, word got around of what happen to Fannie there was a chain of vicious attacks on blacks which became a massacre. John Singleton made Rosewood into a movie, but to make movie directors usually embellish the story. Singleton did embellish the story with some inaccurate scenes. One inaccurate thing in Singletons movie was he made
Throughout the extensive history of cinema, particularly in its inception, women had been relegated to the roles of the damsel in distress, a character which usually was kidnapped and hoped to be rescue by the male hero. Other female archetypes in cinema are the seductress, also known as the femme fatale, a character who was aware of her beauty and mystery and would use those traits to manipulate her suitors into serving her agenda, seen throughout many noir films. Lastly, as the object of desire;
In other words, photography can be used to present objectivity, to facilitate treatment and for future re-admissions of the insane. With his presentation Diamond’s application of photography to the insane in asylums became widespread. Just a few years later in 1858 British psychiatrist John Conolly published, “The Physiognomy of Insanity,” in The Medical Times and Gazette. In this series of essays Conolly reproduces photos taken by Diamond and provides a detail of each photo selected. I have included