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A 10 page research paper that examines horror films as a cinematic genre. The writer discusses the appeal of this screen genre: its pros and cons, and the purposes that it performs in society, as well as its history and a personal perspective on this classic cinematic genre. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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its black cloud" (Kroll, 1998, p. 80). While this may sound like a part of the script from a horror movie, such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, it is
actually a quote from Homers ancient Greek epic the Iliad, which was composed roughly 3,000 years ago (Kroll, 1998). As this suggests, human beings have always been fascinated -- and
horrified -- by signs of their own mortality. Modern audiences, rather than listen to an oral recitation, achieve the same vicarious thrills, experiencing evil within a safe environment, by
going to the movies. The following examination of the horror film discusses the appeal of this screen genre: its pros and cons, and the purposes that it performs in society,
as well as its history and a personal perspective on this classic cinematic genre. History The horror film had its inception in German Expressionist cinema (Sharrett, 1993). The horror
films produced at Universal Studios during the 1930s went on to define the genre with classic pictures such as Frankenstein, The Wolfman and The Mummy. Sharrett (1993) points out that
the genre seemed to understand the "other as a scapegoat" as it refused to see the "monster as an aberration to be put down to secure bourgeois normality" (p. 100).
The horror films of the 1960s and 70s served to continue the challenge to the legitimacy of capitalist, patriarchal rule. The evolution of the genre has seen the "monster" evolve
from being metaphysical or the product of a lab experiment gone awry to being an emblem of bourgeois society itself (Sharrett, 1993). What is a horror film? Many experts
differentiate between true horror movies and "fright flicks" (Ocker, 2000). A typical slasher movie can make the audience jump, but a true horror movie makes the audience writhe, as it
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