Horror Films

Movies amaze been growing increasingly more explicit for years. Horror films are no longer based on a cleverly written record with lots of twists and turns, but rather how graphic and twisted the images are passim the movie. Horror films are appealing to viewers for various reasons. In fact, accord to some film critics, good execration films have secernicular singularitys. Maggie McCutcheon in Too Disturbing, Too Shocking, According to Olson, people particularly enjoy experiencing the shutting of their fear and scourge.Once the fear and terror have closing curtained, people feel better. And, check to Stephen King in Why We Crave Horror Movies, inconsistency films push aside help us confront our fears, and help us deal with the forged side of ourselves. Given the wide variety of characteristics good horror films have, this cover will address two specific characteristics of horror films. One characteristic is visual images/suggestions that intend our fears. Another char acteristic is vitality or effectualness of source of horror.In order to analyze the characteristics of horror films, I viewed Poltergeist, an early eighties 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 visual images/suggestions that symbolize our fears. Stanley J. Solomon in The Nightmare World claims the cinema of horror concretizes this nightmare world- our repeal 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 musical style may be the symbols of our fears rather than the psychological source of them, but the terror without a body is terror deprived of a means of heavy us. The movie Poltergeist certainly has this characteristic. Examples of visual images from the movie is a scary jest that looks mean , sitting in the chair and has t he ability to move , goes under(a) Robbies bed.A knock over reaching out of the TV also the access for the beast to reach Carol Anne, parents later communicate with Carol Anne finished the TV. Another image is a Dead tree outside the domiciliate making scary shadows e actually time it storms and also tries to eat Robbie. And in the closet there is a monster that takes Carol Anne and at the end of the movie the closet turns in to a Giant throat with a serpent coming out of it sucking the house in to the earth. So understandably the viewers buttocks see the characteristic of isual images in the horror film Poltergeist. Another characteristic of a horror film is vigor or effect of source of horror. Stanley J. Solomon in The Nightmare World claims If the pic of archetypal fears is one aspect of the musical genre, the process whereby these fears become dramatic incidents in a film reveals at least two other genre traits the degree of unpreparedness on the part of the endangered victim, and the vitality or strength of the source of horror. The movie Poltergeist certainly has this characteristic.Some examples are a normal smell 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 goofball looks when its lighting 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 definitely 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 effective horror f ilm.In fact, according to Tim Dirks article states that horror films are in the main set in spooky old mansions or fog shrouded, darkness locales, with unknown, supernatural or grotesque creatures, ranging from vampires, madmen, devils unfriendly ghost, monsters, even the unseen, diabolical comportment of evil. This is the case with Poltergeist, and I think many people still equal this horror film till this day.