Thursday, 6 September 2012

Horror film research; sub genres


My A2 media studies film project's theme is horror, a genre I realised was diverse in itself during my research today. The genre has many sub-genres; supernatural films all based on ghosts or curses such as The Grudge which depicts both. Supernatural films portray an impossible to defeat threat which intensifies the horror of the situation. Gore is also a prominent in many horrors, these tend to focus on blood and violence often showing extreme death and torture such as Saw films horrifying the viewer gruesomely rather than scarily. 

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