What is it that we want to feel when we go to watch a horror film?
Of course, we all want to be terrified, or at least we are prepared to be frightened in some way. But what is it that terrifies us, or essentially, incites in us some sense of horror? Is it the presence of horrible creatures, or is it the presence of ghosts, or other types of supernatural creatures, that scares us? Of course, the supernatural is in all these things. Human beings normally fear the supernatural because things supernatural are considered hostile to human life.
What does horror do? It reaffirms the sacred or holy, through a plot where a human encounters demons and he struggles to get rid of them.
This happens in Dracula. The Count has a terrifying sense of the demonic about him, suggested superficially by how he looks. But religious things like a cross affected the Count. Nowadays anything in the form of a cross can be used to chase a demon away, even crossed fingers.
Horror has an interesting history. Essentially, the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft posits the existence of a race of supernatural beings which are hostile to human life, eagerly awaiting their chance to reclaim the earth and kill human beings. Lovecraft, especially in stories like "The Colour Out of Space," "The Shadow over Innsmouth," and "The …show more content…
Caligari (1919),” definitely subscribes to the modern horror genre aswell. What is ostensibly a tale of crazy authority became the musings of a madman. In fact, the influence of German Expressionism on the Hollywood films of the 1930’s and 1940’s were tremendous. Asa form of art, Expressionism is normally considered to be best portrayed by the work of Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Edward Munch. In paintings, Expressionistic art is shown by a sense of imbalance in the pictorial arrangements in order to achieve a bit of distortion. The content of Expressionistic art is shown by its grotesqueness and
Of course, we all want to be terrified, or at least we are prepared to be frightened in some way. But what is it that terrifies us, or essentially, incites in us some sense of horror? Is it the presence of horrible creatures, or is it the presence of ghosts, or other types of supernatural creatures, that scares us? Of course, the supernatural is in all these things. Human beings normally fear the supernatural because things supernatural are considered hostile to human life.
What does horror do? It reaffirms the sacred or holy, through a plot where a human encounters demons and he struggles to get rid of them.
This happens in Dracula. The Count has a terrifying sense of the demonic about him, suggested superficially by how he looks. But religious things like a cross affected the Count. Nowadays anything in the form of a cross can be used to chase a demon away, even crossed fingers.
Horror has an interesting history. Essentially, the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft posits the existence of a race of supernatural beings which are hostile to human life, eagerly awaiting their chance to reclaim the earth and kill human beings. Lovecraft, especially in stories like "The Colour Out of Space," "The Shadow over Innsmouth," and "The …show more content…
Caligari (1919),” definitely subscribes to the modern horror genre aswell. What is ostensibly a tale of crazy authority became the musings of a madman. In fact, the influence of German Expressionism on the Hollywood films of the 1930’s and 1940’s were tremendous. Asa form of art, Expressionism is normally considered to be best portrayed by the work of Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Edward Munch. In paintings, Expressionistic art is shown by a sense of imbalance in the pictorial arrangements in order to achieve a bit of distortion. The content of Expressionistic art is shown by its grotesqueness and