into society’s consciousness to the point of exhaustion, a new kid entered the block. The year was 1984 and it was time for a new villain to enter into the horror genre. A villain that was agile, intelligent, almost inviolable yet viscous, and by all means deadly. A Nightmare on Elm Street introduced the distinctive presence of Fred Krueger to the horror industry and to the audience. Freddy Krueger took the center stage and with him a new era of horror films began. This horribly scarred man who wore
Lorie Myers begins the film Halloween as a normal, happy teenager and everything in life is fine. Michael is the brother of Lorie and he is locked up in an insane asylum for murdering his older sister Edith. He eventually escapes and decides he wants to murder his sister Lorie. Lorie is unaware that she has an older brother because she is adopted by another family when she was an infant. On Halloween night, Lorie is babysitting and her friends are being murdered. Lorie losses everything and she had
The control was never ours to being…something other, rather than something else, is at work…The function of horror is incredibly simple. It reminds us that we are not alone” (Yeats). Horror films are abundant and the idea of being scared keeps bringing people back to the movies only to go through that unpleasant journey again but with a new plot and characters. What makes these movies scary? Why are people attracted to horror films? Why are some older horror films remade and some are not? When these
something malevolent inside the brain. A majority of the time, the only outlet for this anger is to do bodily harm to another man/woman. This dark side is one in which most humans would not like their peers to know that it exists. Stephen King in “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” expresses the idea that these movies have a “dirty job to do.” By watching a violent horror movie, these specific emotions of anger and abhorrence tend to degenerate; the dirty job that King is referring to is this specific action
Conservative mother, Estelle Collingwood says to her daughter Mari in the beginning of Wes Craven’s cult classic The Last House on the Left (1972). With the war in Vietnam in full swing and the long term effects of the Manson family murders, the peace and love counter culture was at the end of an era. American society had become more violent and corrupt, as were the films Hollywood was starting to release. And with the new generation’s style of filmmaking and recent MPAA rating system, filmmakers were pushing
One of my favorite film franchises is the Nightmare On Elm Street series. Freddy Krueger is one of modern horror’s most recognized, beloved and feared icons, with his trademark weathered fedora, burned skin, striped red-and-green sweater, and bladed glove. The lovechild of the late, great Wes Craven, Nightmare On Elm Street saved New Line Cinema from financial despair & was instrumental to their recovery, affectionately nicknaming the studio “The House That Freddy Built.” When you glimpse into this
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 these movies. However, over time,”their familiarity and the audience’s ability to identify and sympathize with them over the protagonist made these
Shocker was made in 1989 by Wes Craven in hopes of launching a new franchise. Due to him feeling he wasn't fairly compensated for his Nightmare on Elm Street series under New Line Cinema. After watching Shocker I can understand the reason that no sequel was ever made, Shocker is a good Craven style horror film. But feels... unoriginal, as if feels like it borrows a bit to heavily from Child's Play which was released the year prior. If the similarities were on purpose or purely accidental I don't
one of his darkest and most powerful tragedies.The Play takes place in Scotland, And the basics of the play is that people should be carful not to let power consume them because it can have terrifying consequences. A good example of this would be Wes Craven’s Wish-master where one man’s lust for power and wealth would lead him to his demise at the hands of the powerful Djinn. The play was written between 1603 and 1607. It was first published in the Folio of 1623. It was most likely written during the