Chainsaw Massacre Analysis In the decades since its release in 1974, Texas Chainsaw Massacre has been raved as one of the best and most controversial horror films of all time (Writer, BBC). Many have seen it as re-defining the genre, and raising the bar for all horror films that followed(Gleiberman, Owen). The story of the film features all of the five basic conventions of the slasher, that would eventually become a template for a lot of films that attempted to follow the genre. The film became so popular
The Chainsaw Massacre Films Movies have been remade over the years, with technology and all the new types of sources there are today. It was easy to decide which one is the best. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the most popular movies in history. It has been remade from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre of 1974 to the Texas chainsaw Massacre of 2013. In the film of 1974 the story is based on a guy whose grandfather left him a house deep in the nowhere. Close to that house there was another building
Imagine your favorite classic horror movie; most films portray men as killers and monsters where the females are almost always shown as a victim and defenseless to create more fear within the movie. Have you ever thought about if the roles in a movie were switched, would it still give the audience the same emotion and anxiety in the film? Take Psycho for example if the shower scene was shot with a male in the shower instead of a female would it have made a difference. I feel that horror has pegged
The Descent - fits into the slasher and psychological narratives of the sub-genres of a horror. The extreme gore and violence shown when the girls are confronted by the 'Crawlers' indicate the slasher sub-genre, and the mysterious dark lighting where anything could be lurking and claustrophobia of being underground adds to the psychological horror genre. The irritant - This character is different from the others and gives off an uneasy attitude as the final girl doesn't know her too well. She is
previous slasher films, making it a satire of the slasher genre. One weekend, again staying at my dad’s house we decided to watch the Scream trilogy. I remember telling dad that I wanted to watch a mystery, like a detective movie, so he decided a slasher would be just the thing. He is also in great favour of anything with a series, so when the first film is finished you do not have to decide what to watch next, you just put the next disc in. Even though Scream is a satire of previous slashers before
While the 1981 film, An American Werewolf in London, is considered by many to be a classic horror film, it is also a film that has a misogynistic implicit meaning. The film is somewhat of a coming of age story. The two main characters, shortly after graduating, arrive in England to travel explore both foreign lands and foreign women. The sexual symbolism throughout the film implies that the female body is a dangerous thing. Men’s lustful desires can cause a total transformation from something human
I am going to explore how females are represented in horror films. The representation of females and males has changed dramatically in society and in horror films. However, traditionally women in general are represented as the damsel in distress. Stereotypically they are playing the weaker role and are in instantaneous danger and attacked by the serial killer. The first text in which I am going to study is the representation of women in the movie called Resident Evil Retribution 2012; I have chosen