A Horror Genre Analysis

In this essay, the author

• Explains that horror is a dark genre that aims to unsettle the audience. its appeal is its aim to immerse.
• Analyzes how the 'uncanny' is reoccurring in horrors, the idea that something familiar has been altered in such an unsettling way that the audience garners discomfort. the immersive, voyeuristic experience of cinema allows the peak areas of discomfort to be abuse
• Analyzes how wallace's adaptation of it presents the antagonist (pennywise the clown) as the other in a situation where clowns have already been deemed frightening decades ago.

• Explains that horror is a dark genre that aims to unsettle the audience. its appeal is its aim to immerse.
• Analyzes how the 'uncanny' is reoccurring in horrors, the idea that something familiar has been altered in such an unsettling way that the audience garners discomfort. the immersive, voyeuristic experience of cinema allows the peak areas of discomfort to be abuse
• Analyzes how wallace's adaptation of it presents the antagonist (pennywise the clown) as the other in a situation where clowns have already been deemed frightening decades ago.
• Analyzes how tommy lee wallace directs the 1990 film adaptation of stephen king's it. the psychological element of creepiness is at the foreground, yet wallace utilizes other horror conventions such as gore and the paranormal.
• Analyzes how the storm drain scene is a concise example of the uncanny in wallace's adaptation. georgie is within an arms reach of this unsettling character, and twinkling background music creates an rising intensity.
• Analyzes how stephen king outlined three types of true horror: gore and disgusting nature, visible pain inflicted, the paranormal, terrifying yet explainable, and uncanny, no immediate or obvious threat, yet an unmistakable uneasiness.
• Analyzes how stephen king's mythic horror movie appeals to all that is worst in us. it is morbidity unchained, our base instincts let free, and it all happens, fittingly, in the dark.
• Analyzes how the antagonistic invasion of the familiar furthers an audience's fear. horror films view this as an opportunity to harness their own fears.
• Analyzes how wallace's it is heavy handed with the convention of antagonist versus protagonist. the use of children in horror films is a recurring motif.
• Analyzes how alfred hitchcock's psycho subverts previous expectations of the horror genre.
• Analyzes how hitchcock uses mise en scéne to create an atmosphere that is at its very core, unusual, not paranormal or objectively threatening.
• Opines that horror is a genre almost alone in the fact that editing is not the most important atmospheric device. the use of lighting, sound, overall diagnosis and characterisation create what directors hope to be
• Analyzes how barsam's looking at movies conceptualizes horror movie cinematography, the generous use of 'night scenes (and) chiaroscuro lighting within the image.
• Analyzes how horror's effectiveness does not stem from what is immediately present to the audience on screen, rather the lack of, the aforementioned ambiguity.
• Concludes that the conventions of horror are a complex topic to define when the genre is constantly adapting to contemporary fears and anxieties.