Horror Films

Movies have been increase increasingly more explicit for years. revulsion fools are no long-lived based on a cleverly written script with lots of twists and turns, but rather how graphic and twisted the images are throughout the conduct. Horror films are appealing to viewers for various reasons. In fact, according to most film critics, good crime films have particular characteristics. Maggie McCutcheon in in like manner Disturbing, Too Shocking, According to Olson, tidy sum particularly enjoy experiencing the end of their business organization and terror.Once the fear and terror have ended, people feel better. And, according to Stephen powerfulness in Why We Crave Horror Movies, horror films can serving us confront our fears, and help us deal with the bad grimace of ourselves. Given the wide variety of characteristics good horror films have, this paper forget address two specific characteristics of horror films. adept characteristic is ocular images/suggestions that symbolize our fears. other characteristic is vitality or strength of point of reference of horror.In order to analyze the characteristics of horror films, I viewed Poltergeist, an early 1980s film about a family being haunted by earthbound spirits, and I also read four definitive articles about horror films. One characteristic of a good horror films is optical images/suggestions that symbolize our fears. Stanley J. Solomon in The Nightmare World claims the cinema of horror concretizes this nightmare world- our abstract fears of destruction and death.The Midnight visits of vampires, the laboratory induced reincarnations, the skull deformities, the murders in the fog these visual images of the genre whitethorn be the symbols of our fears rather than the psychological extension of them, but the terror without a body is terror deprived of a designates of menacing us. The motion picture Poltergeist certainly has this characteristic. Examples of visual images from the movie is a s cary clown that looks mean , sitting in the chair and has the ability to move , goes under Robbies bed.A hand stretching out of the TV also the gateway for the barbarian to reach Carol Anne, parents later communicate with Carol Anne through the TV. Another image is a Dead tree outside the house reservation scary shadows every time it storms and also tries to eat Robbie. And in the insistency there is a monster that takes Carol Anne and at the end of the movie the clo crash turns in to a Giant throat with a snake coming out of it sucking the house in to the earth. So understandably the viewers can see the characteristic of isual images in the horror film Poltergeist. Another characteristic of a horror film is Vitality or strength of source of horror. Stanley J. Solomon in The Nightmare World claims If the depiction of prototypical fears is one aspect of the genre, the process whereby these fears become dramatic incidents in a film reveals at least two other genre traits the ti er of unpreparedness on the part of the menace victim, and the vitality or strength of the source of horror. The movie Poltergeist certainly has this characteristic.Some examples are a normal looking neighborhood, Tweety dies , Steven has a remote control war with his neighbor , Carol Anne answers the TV people questions, Diane mentions the swimming pool what if Carol Anne falls in, the way the clown looks when its lightness in the kids room and when the Tree and storm clouds look and the hand reaching out from the TV, but only Carol Anne sees it- rest of the family thinks its a earthquake and the chairs stacked up, out from the table , and Robbie utensils are bent.So you can unquestionably tell that Poltergeist has the characteristic in the film. In conclusion Poltergeist clearly reflects the characteristics of having visual images/suggestions that symbolize our fears and of allowing viewers a degree of unpreparedness on the part of the endangered victim. Based on my evaluation, I believe Poltergeist is a very impelling horror film.In fact, according to Tim Dirks article states that horror films are generally set in spooky old mansions or fog shrouded, dark locales, with unknown, wizard(prenominal) or grotesque creatures, ranging from vampires, madmen, devils unfriendly ghost, monsters, even the unseen, diabolical presence of evil. This is the pillowcase with Poltergeist, and I think many people still like this horror film till this day.