The relationship between women and the horror genre as always been complicated. From always being helpless victims in older horror films, women changed roles and begun becoming the heroes and the monsters of that genre. Some women characters like Ripley from Alien are the Final Girl, while other are monsters, like Eli in the film "Let the Right One In", who is quite different from most vampires. First, Ripley is very similar to Clover's Final Girl. The Final Girl is always the first to know that
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 females
‘perfect’ society. The term ‘domestic’ is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “relating to the running of a home or to family relations”, therefore, the ideal setting would be home and family related but also other settings shown within the novels and film that closely relate
Horror films and the concept of childhood have had a complex relationship. This is so because one of the central themes of horror which is the corruption of good by evil. Childhood is an ideal representation of innocence in its purest form. However; horror films love to break away from this theme. Even though it is sometimes controversial using children to represent horror themes, it attracts people to see what situations the director or writer puts the child in. Andrew Schaill, writer of “It Takes
The Devil Inside - I Will Possess Your Heart Barbara Creed is an active member of the horror film genre - being a viewer of films as well as a speaker and writer. She’s the author of a certain book called, “The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis.” Barbara Creed argues that horror films generally when creating a possession film, the filmmaker generally puts the woman in the position of victim. She says that when a female is considered “monstrous” it generally has to do with her reproductive/mothering
one of the architects of modern day horror cinema. He pioneered many shot techniques and got rid of the old horror movies plot clichés and presented the audience with fascinating characters and storylines. His influence can still be seen in cinema today and there are many directors whose films are inspired by Hitchcock, thus making him considered as one of England’s best ever directors. For this dissertation I would like to talk about how Hitchcock’s famous film Psycho (1960) has had such an impact
Research Feature Film Analysis- Halloween Genre and Audience Halloween is a slasher horror film. Slasher is a sub genre of a horror film, typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and murdering a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner. It was directed by John Carpenter, who although has worked in numerous film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction films from the 1970s and 1980s. The targeted audience for this film is most likely to be people
their testimonies in documentary Sex in a Cold Climate filmed in 2007. The film strongly criticizes the cruelties that occured between the walls of these institutions and the Roman Catholic Church. While genre-wise it is obviously a drama, however, it may easily be interpreted as a horror movie due to numerous elements distinctive of the genre. In the following I propose to explore the devices used in creating the horror atmosphere placing emphasis on the representation of the female characters and
permeated the gothic horror genre. Though the themes have remained constant, the cultural context which surrounds them, have not, as exemplified in Dracula, a novel by Bram Stoker, and Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film adaptation. Gothic horror is a well-known genre, believed to have been invented by Horace Walpole in 1764 when he wrote The Castle of Otranto. This novel, and all gothic novels written afterwards, have multiple characteristics in common that make them part of the gothic horror genre. These
Women in modern day society are expected to follow a certain criteria. The most common representation of women is that they are passive and tend to avoid conflicts in any situation. However, the tides are changing, women in society are progressively breaking down the social barriers in which they have been confined to their specific roles. This essay aims to analyse the films Alien and Under the Skin to show the other side to females which could be deemed nontraditional, as these two films shed