Horror Films

Horror Films

Horror films are films created with one main intention in mind, to scare you!

Typical horror films contain monsters or killers, normally unhuman in some way, either being disfigured our psychotic. The monsters normally consist of unearthly beings or mutated/possessed people, for example the girl in 'The Grudge' being both dead and possessed. The killers like the one in 'Scream' don't normally have any reasons to the killings other than being slightly psychotic (messed up in the head).

Horror films main characters (other than the monster) normally survive but his/her friends/companions normally die when they are with her leaving her alone and upset in the end after she somehow defeats or escapes the subject.

Horror films are aimed to audiences of both male and females, normally young adults and mid ages due to the fact that it would easily scare children and haunt them for long periods of time as they would yet be able to understand that it is a fictional story and completely not true.

Structure

The way in which horror films are normally structured are:

The monster is introduced (normally killing a random victim). 

The main character discovering about the killing or just the location in which it happened (unaware of the death). 

Going to the area where it happened/something related to the victim. 

Discovers the monster/Killer.

Tries to escape or investigate it (majority of the time struggling).

Confronts (normally fights) the subject and normally succeeds.

Film either ends or a good note or a cliff hanger (a twist normally)

A good of example of this is the film 'The Grudge' where the opening scene shows the creature killing a random victim, to which the main character gets employed to work within the haunted area it happened, unaware of the incident, she then discovers that it is haunted and then tries to find out why, during the time the creature is killing people she knows and others, then within the end she confronts the creature again and manages to escape, but the final minute of the film shows that she has not really escaped the creature and ends on a cliff hanger.

Goreography

Goreography is a sub-genre of horror, a good example of it is the 'Saw' series.

The film is not scary but contains very gorey scenes of people being killed or attacked, over the few years films like this have become quite successful, the most being the Saw series.