Monday 1 December 2008

Individual Research on Horrors

Horror films are movies that want to make people scared. In the plots of Horrors, themes of the supernatural are very common. Sometimes the theme can be completely supernatural without any realism at all. Horror movies usually include a central villain or bad guy. Early horror were usually based on literature from the gothic horror genre, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Phantom of the Opera and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The sub-genres of horrors include: The horror-of-personality - Psycho film, the horror-of-armageddon - Invasion of the Bodysnatchers film, and the horror-of-the-demonic - Hellraiser film.
Horror films have been criticized for their violence. Even so, all the major studios and many respected directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Romero have made Films in this genre. Some horror films incorporate elements of other genres such as science fiction, fantasy, black comedy, and thrillers.

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