Horror Genre – Research (Christian Mesmar)
Horror Films are designed to frighten and panic and cause dread to the audience. They centre the film on the dark side of life and often include objects which people generally have a fear of or are really gory and revolting. The threatening characters in a horror movie will generally be represented with a huge amount of make-up, to exaggerate the scary looks of the character.
Nick Lacey’s “Repertoire of Elements” – Horror Genre
Stock Settings
Haunted House Dark place – Limited Lighting Castles Suburban towns Squeamish character |
Iconography
Skull House Blood Crucifixes Sharp Kitchen Knivesm Axes Fractured Body Parts Sudden loud screams |
Stock Characters
Zombies Innocent human Ghosts Vampires Monsters |
Narratives and themes
Spirits present in a haunted house Psychopath on the loose Zombies on the loose A coincidence of unfortunate events A mad scientist creates a monster
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Films which helped build this table:
Zombieland / Final Destination / Paranormal Activity / Haunting in Connecticut
The first horror movie (1896)
Le Manoir du diable (The Devil’s Manor/Castle) was only 2 minutes long and was a silent movie, which was initially intended to amuse people but was accepted as the first horror film.
Nowadays horror films are much more emotional, and contain more horror scenes and the technology used has become much easier to create a horror scene. Horror scene has become popular in the recent decade, and has also become popular for low-budget filmmakers.
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A good start. However, this should sum up the findings of the research all four of you did individually on one or more horror films (discussed, hopefully, in your individual blogs) so develop this repertoire, using the names of films to show where your elements come from, and/or links to your individual blogs or IMDB.
Mr A
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