Sunday, 14 February 2010

Horror Genre

The point of a horror film is to create a feeling in a viewer of shock, fear and terror. The typical plots of a horror film include the themes of death, mental illness, isolation and the supernatural such as vampires, werewolves and the un-dead. Horror films are often violent, filled with gore that makes viewers want to turn away, but this is not always the case. The typical elements of a horror film are suspenseful moments, shocking things happening or threatening to happen. Horror film is quite hard to analyse in the way that because the idea is to not be able to predict the plot and to be full of suspense, Because of this you can often not know what is going to happen and many films in the same genre take different turns.

The ending of horror films using involve death or sadness. When a horror film does have a happy ending it is often clouded by the unhappiness of the film and the unsettling feeling that things won’t remain so happy for long.

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