Multi-sequel horror films have greatly decreased in the amount of fright they produce. Even though they are no longer scary the population still attends them. The reason for attending them has changed over the years but none the less they still make a profitable debut at the theatre. We now attend such movies to see our favorite horror film stars mutilate their victims, the movies also contain nudity and music that attracts the younger youth. Because of new reasons to attend, these movies are still awesome and entertaining to pay to see at the theatre.
Horror films no longer contain the necessities to induce fright. Recently Freddy Vs Jason has been released into the theatre, which is a movie where Freddy Kruegor the villain from the Nightmare on Elm Street saga uses Jason Voorhees the villain from the Friday the 13th saga to come back and haunt his town again. In the original films these characters where very scary, and it was a great thrill-seeking trip. But now, as Stephen King says "The first movie comes along and scares the bejabbers out of everyone. Then come the sequels. And as any horror-movie buff will tell you, sequels are almost never frightening." (138). This shows how most movie-buffs look at the multi sequel horror movies. King says in another quote "so why do these pictures keep on appearing for a week at the local 10-plex theatre? The answer is simple because schmucks like me keep going to see them. And why? Because the fear generated by a good horror picture is a drug, and as any junkie will tell you, you go on chasing the high long after the high is gone. Sure, Halloween: H20 sucked, we tell ourselves, but maybe the next Michael Myers flick will be made by someone who really understands and loves the genre, and we'll get a jolt of the original terror we felt when John Carpenter actually put us behind the mask, or when Jason came surging out of Crystal Lake to grab the girl in the rowboat after we thought he had to be dead.
The Genre of Horrors Horror films can be terrifying, dramatic, exciting and entertaining. Horror film genre has been dramatically tainted with violence, death, monsters, pools blood, and ghosts. ... Both films followed the genre of horror films somewhat, but while many aspects were different from each other. ... This is what true horror films are about. ... Both films followed horror genre to some point. ...
Some people just don't get cult-following films. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. ... What's great about movies like Rocky Horror is the fan base. ... There are times when you yell line back at the screen, especially in Rocky Horror. ... Frank) and his creation (Rocky Horror) But either way, cult films are that: not popular at first but wildly so afterwards. ...
There are many qualities that makes a horror film appeal to the audience. ... The main part of all horror films is the monster or evil. ... Tension is another vital aspect of horror films. ... Special effects play an important role in horror films. Horror films normally contain the best possible special effects. ...
For film studies, the book defines genre as a category or classification of a group of movies in which the individual films share similar subject matter and similar ways of organizing the subject through narrative and stylistic patterns. ... Genres have been used to classify various art forms well before the creation of films. ... Giving a film a genre can be very daunting, as there are many different hybrid genres and subgenres, but the book focuses on six different groupings of films that are generally defined as genres: comedies, westerns, melodramas, musicals, horror films and crime films....
Horror films; the last link between excitement and insanity. ... Classical horror films have become ineffective to the postmodern generation. ... The old horror films consisted of too many fake, and unrealistic scenarios. ... If it weren't for horror films, perhaps some of us would go insane. ... On the other hand, such new films as, the Ring, Scream, etc. are examples of modern day horror films, which defy many basic guidelines of classic horror movies. ...
All horror movies employ music to set the mood, create suspense, or even trick the audience into thinking someone is about to get killed. The hybridization of horror and musical, however, is very rare. Two horror-musical films that have achieved great success are Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Little Shop of Horrors (1986). ... Most notable is the transformation each film made from early, non-musical films to long-running stage musicals to very profitable film horror musicals. ... Neither film was successful in its original form. ...
Horror films are notorious for using jump scares and other elements in order to captivate their audience. While most films use this universally accepted method, there's one film that take a more subtle approach. The film "The Shining" (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) uses sound, tracking shot, and lighting to create suspense in the shot where Danny meets the twins in the hallway while riding his tricycle. ... As they repeat the phrase, "Come and play with us Danny" followed by "Forever and ever and ever", Danny then covers his eyes in horror from seeing the twin'...
He believes that we watch horror films for three reasons. ... King says the fun part of watching a horror film is seeing people get tortured or even killed. ... Horror films let us release our anticivilized emotions and our fears, which is sometimes hard to do. ... I believe people watch horror movies because people like to get scared and be afraid. ... When watching a horror movie you get the rush but there are no consequences. ...
