Horror films have evolved so much throughout the years. Now when going to see a horror film I expect to basically see the movie SAW, Which I could never sit through. I think of gruesome killers, hot girls, fast cars, and the thought of human taxidermy. I think of movie makers trying to compile the most disgusting and bone chilling terrible things into an hour and a half. that does not sound pleasant to watch at all. I feel like horror films used to be about something. there would be an underlying message. there would be something to figure out, something to understand. not this over staurated Las Vegas billboard of disgusting crap. In the Night of the Living Dead there was suspense, human interaction, death and gore, but it was fun to watch. Especially in Susperia, there was actually things to think about, "what happened?", "Did she just die!?", "was that all just a dream??". I feel like film makers have less faith in their audiences now or maybe it is easier to make more money when your film just requires people to sit there and zone out.
Horror films are films that try to make people scared. There are usually deaths, screaming, suspense, supernatural characters, and there is always some sort of central villain. The villain does not always have to be one person, but a group of things as well. Like in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the villains are the seedpods,( communism).
Directors that made a huge impact on the genre of Horror would be Alfred Hitchhock, Roman Polaski, Stanley Kubrick, William Friedkin, and Frances Ford Coppola,. Movies such as Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Dracula, and the Exorcist have made horror films what they are today. Overall this genre study has really opened my eyes to horror films. I you would have asked me if I enjoyed watching horror films, my answer would have been NO. But now my answer has changed, and I genuinely enjoy watching older horror films.
Horror films are films that try to make people scared. There are usually deaths, screaming, suspense, supernatural characters, and there is always some sort of central villain. The villain does not always have to be one person, but a group of things as well. Like in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the villains are the seedpods,( communism).
Directors that made a huge impact on the genre of Horror would be Alfred Hitchhock, Roman Polaski, Stanley Kubrick, William Friedkin, and Frances Ford Coppola,. Movies such as Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Dracula, and the Exorcist have made horror films what they are today. Overall this genre study has really opened my eyes to horror films. I you would have asked me if I enjoyed watching horror films, my answer would have been NO. But now my answer has changed, and I genuinely enjoy watching older horror films.
