THEORISTS
Wes Craven
WES CRAVENS MOST MENTIONED HORROR FILMS ON THE WEB
1984 1996 1972 2006
NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET SCREAM THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT THE HILLS HAVE EYES
Wes Craven (born August 2, 1939) is an American film director, writer, producer, and actor known for his work on horror films, and in particular slasher movies such as 'Scream'.
Wes Craven gained appreciation particularly from some of his theories that we uses when creating a horror film. Firstly Wes Craven believes that horrors that take place in a stereo-typically known as a 'safe place' are much more effective on the audience. Places such as a family home or a school is one of many of Wes Cravens locations which he sets his horror films in. I believe it has a greater effect on the audience as they can relate to the location as they experience it in everyday life and it opens up the thought that this horror could happen to them.
Following from this Craven also states that there is typically an absence of parents in the horror film. He states this because parents usually represent that sense of safety for a person in real life, so in films when that is taken away it leaves the character vulnerable. Furthermore this connects the characters to have family issues. Craven uses dysfunctional families and personal family problems within his films to portray that bad events are about to happen within the plot when the family in the film is not functioning as it usually would.
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Wes Craven gained appreciation particularly from some of his theories that we uses when creating a horror film. Firstly Wes Craven believes that horrors that take place in a stereo-typically known as a 'safe place' are much more effective on the audience. Places such as a family home or a school is one of many of Wes Cravens locations which he sets his horror films in. I believe it has a greater effect on the audience as they can relate to the location as they experience it in everyday life and it opens up the thought that this horror could happen to them.
Following from this Craven also states that there is typically an absence of parents in the horror film. He states this because parents usually represent that sense of safety for a person in real life, so in films when that is taken away it leaves the character vulnerable. Furthermore this connects the characters to have family issues. Craven uses dysfunctional families and personal family problems within his films to portray that bad events are about to happen within the plot when the family in the film is not functioning as it usually would.
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Carol Clover
Carol J. Clover (born 31 July 1940) is an American professor of film studies, rhetoric language and Scandinavian mythology. She has been widely published in her areas of expertise. Her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film achieved popularity beyond academia, and she is credited with developing the "final girl" theory, within the book, which changed both popular and academic conceptions of gender in horror films.
Firstly Clover claims that within horror films the main killer has usually suffered with childhood issues or sexual encounters whilst at a earlier age which has evidently led them to become this villain, following this she also claims that female killers within films tend to get confused with their gender and the example of this would be the mother in 'Friday the 13th'
Another view of Clovers is that horror should be located in 'terrible places'. Examples of this could be a decaying building or a graveyard because they attach a horrible history to them as well as a terrible appearance. Equally she claims that the walls in a building may at first sight be a barrier between the victim and villain protecting the victim from it's death but in fact it is the opposite effect and is actually blocking the victim in making it a simpler task for the killer to devour of its vulnerable victim. An example of this would be 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. In our teaser trailer we included a decayed building to represent our decaying world setting which pays homage to Clovers theory.
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Wheeler Winston Dixon
Wheeler Winston Dixon said "It's sheer exploitation filmmaking with no resonance, taste or value, but it delivers what the action crowd wants: violence, violence and more violence, all served up with a knowing wink in a very postmodern fashion; In short, Quentin Tarantino movies are long, empty, derivative and junk food for the mind with no substance or nutritional value."
He explores the history of horror films and specifically looks at the progression of horror and how the genre was established. He has also stated that he believes the industry falls into parody and then rises again to create new levels of horror.
He wrote 'A History of Horror' in which he discusses horror and how it has developed through time. In this he states that characters in horror films are seen as sites of activity, meaning they are going to be killed. The book also mentions the historical origin of horror, for example Dracula and Frankenstein. He also talks about how the mass success in Europe and America has expanded across the globe over time and how horror films fit into the Hollywood studio system.
He explores the history of horror films and specifically looks at the progression of horror and how the genre was established. He has also stated that he believes the industry falls into parody and then rises again to create new levels of horror.
He wrote 'A History of Horror' in which he discusses horror and how it has developed through time. In this he states that characters in horror films are seen as sites of activity, meaning they are going to be killed. The book also mentions the historical origin of horror, for example Dracula and Frankenstein. He also talks about how the mass success in Europe and America has expanded across the globe over time and how horror films fit into the Hollywood studio system.
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