What is a horror film?
· The watching audience’s personal identification with the terrors or fears of the narrative.
· Fear of the other/monsters and demons in the darkness
· Our personal space/boundaries being transgressed
· The emergence of terror at any level being ignored from a safe vicarious distance
Ideological
· The implicit (hidden) or explicit (obvious) messages and hidden meanings embedded within the narrative
· Themes of punishment, refection and or revulsion at subject which lean away from correct thinking
· From simple or basic messages (the good virgin girl surviving at the expense of the rebellious slutty friend ) … to the more subtle fears of strangers/ hitchhikers breaking our personal boundaries
· Or the condemnation of any deviant (on Christian religions are bad)
· Our perception that the power or science can defeat the darkness at the expense of older beliefs in religion and superstition
· In our new modern understanding of fear we rationalise the supernatural and defeat it with psychology and science rather than religious Latin carnets.
· Modern media creates ‘demons’ by crusading against sections of society and labelling them
· Are there really so many more paedophiles to day than in the past?... or are we just more aware of them today?
· How many escaped mental patents have actually stalked and killed strangers? Or are we just prejudice
· Perhaps the most lucrative genre in the fine industry horror drags in huge audiences justifying the continual re invention re making and franchising of every successful horror product
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· We wonder whether there should be a jones 4 or a lether weapon 5 but no saw 6 or re-making a nightmare on elm street after previous incarnations.
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