Scary Movies
The horror film draws on sources from literature and traditional superstitions and legends, as well as fears and nightmares born of socio cultural contexts more current and accurate. On the one hand, the novel of terror, born in the second half of the eighteenth century, and secondly, the oral tradition the story of fear, widely developed in the rural societies of all cultures. Hence, ultimately, there will be basic elements and characters used in the films of this genre: vampires, werewolves, monsters, ghosts, witches, zombies, and the unfortunate human replicas, like Frankenstein.
Other hallmarks of the genre are a very unique use of lighting, which often tends to draw inspiration from German romantic painting of the nineteenth century, which is characterized by the frequent use of the chiaroscuro, the contrast of colors and shades dim , very significant effects in the expressionist cinema of the early years (Murnau, Fritz Lang). The most visited areas or scenarios will be the night, in cemeteries, abandoned house, the castle ruins, the laboratory gloomy forest or dark wasteland, the decadent garden, they have finished forming a catalog of "places" in common. Also, you should never miss a dense and evocative sound track (The Shining, Psycho, Jaws ...), along with some creepy sound effects (The Exorcist, Alien, Bram Stoker effects on ...), Coppola Recently scratch rather what deafening (I Am Legend, 2007).
This type of film attracts the public because of the novel and intense emotional stimuli it receives, ie, the unusual, rough temporarily registered in the daily routine. The physiological effects experienced by the horrified viewer in his armchair include surges in adrenaline, dilated pupils, rapid heartbeat and breathing, and cold sweat, all of which usually ends with a final relief, in which, according the shot that has had history, reign supreme comfort or despair.
The engine is sensational in these films, in many cases, the display of cruelty, human, bestial or supernatural, as a representation of evil in any of its many variants, and this explains the large commercial competition in this industry has generated a grisly contents indiscriminate escalation in the genre over recent years.
Aside from Evil and very attached to him, the hidden or mysterious, of course, also defines horror as a genre, and it does both the archetypal and developmental stage set. It serves both hidden suggested to refer to the theme of horror films (the unconscious criminal occult, hidden from the monsters always hidden in the bowels of society, hidden from our tendencies and desires as shameful ...), its characterization and staging, sometimes tending, as in suspense, to spare the troubled character information, information already known to the public, who, helpless in his chair, waiting distressed events. Other times it comes to concealment and suggestions through the misleading exacerbation of the decor, the manipulation of photography, makeup, etc.. Or by the pure and simple denial of the elements involved, as in the technique the out of field (the terrifying scene takes place outside the camera lens, which focuses on its outskirts, the viewer only "listening" or imagine) the filing of the character from the camera and the terrifying element, and so on.