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In “The Monster and the Homosexual” Benshof discusses homosexuality is something that deviates from the nature of what is normal. He claims that being a homosexual is similar to being an evil monster. It may be a monster you know or the monster may be living inside of you. Benshoff writes, “to create a broadContinue reading “Freddy’s Revenge”

In his article, “Studying Blacks and Horror Films” Coleman states that blacks in horror movies can be shown as the monster or the victim or not shown at all. In any case he is saying that there is racial profiling and statements throughout the history of horror films. For example, in Jurassic Park, he describesContinue reading “Candyman Candyman”

David Skal states in his article, “It’s Alive, I’m Afraid” that monsters are all born in some way whether they are put together piece by piece or created by a chemical ingested by women, or by Satan himself. Throughout the history of monster movies, monsters went from physically deformed humans to humans with brain deformities.Continue reading “The Babadook”

In the reading, “Trying to Survive on the Darker Side; 1980s Family Horror” by Tony Williams, the author maintains that the 1980 horror films are still dealing with family situations, but the characters were drastically questioning what was considered normal. In many of the films during this decade there is a great deal of genderContinue reading “The Stepfather”

In the 1974 apocalyptic film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is a film that demonstrates how horror films became a different type of horror. The film really changed the narrative of slasher films and how it exemplified ones to follow. The tone of the movie is set in the beginning when Sally, Franklin, Jerry, Kirk, andContinue reading “The slaughterhouse family”

In the 1976 monstrous puberty film, Carrie, is a film that displays female adolescents and what it means to “grow up” in a world of a girl. One of the most crucial points in a girls life is when she gets her period for the first time. Such as in the film Carrie, when CarrieContinue reading “Carries”

In the 1972 monstrous feminine film, TheExorcist, is a film that personifies abjection and what it means to abject something. Abjection is being confronted with the concept of self and others, place where meaning collapses, and things that need to be expelled. TheExorcist does a really good job of portraying what abjection means. In BarbaraContinue reading “The exorcist”

In the 1996 horror thriller, Scream, is a film that symbolizes the contents of what it takes to be a slasher film. Scream can be interpreted as an example of what it means to be the final girl in a horror film. In Carol Clover’s article, “Her Body, Himself” it discusses very well in howContinue reading “A screamful night”

In John Carpenter’s 1978 horror film, Halloween, it is one of the early movies in the newly genre of slasher films. Halloween can be interpreted as a gritty, gutty film in which it portrays a lot of themes and truths in the article Her Body, Himself by Carol Clover. The revolving theme in Halloween isContinue reading “A Halloween Thriller”

In Alfred Hitchcock’s, 1960 horror film, Psycho, it is the beginning in which horror films really come to life. The film portrays how the male gaze is used and how Marion is demonstrated in the events of being utilized for sexual pleasure from the male figures in Psycho.  Sam Loomis, Marion’s boyfriend is the mainContinue reading “Psycho”