Showing posts with label Night of the Living Dead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Night of the Living Dead. Show all posts
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Horror Films 101
Thought you might enjoy this semantic map I created for a class assignment. Click to enlarge.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Halloween Channel Flipping
I thought it might be fun to see what's on TV on this All Hallows' Evening. I am hoping to find something nice and scary.
Friday, October 29, 2010
The Decaying American Family
In honor of Halloween, I wanted make an observation about one of my favorite genres: 70s horror.
Movies exist as a sort of window into the subconscious of the society in which they are produced. They reflect people's hopes and fears - both purposefully and accidentally - just like every other form of artistic expression. This has always been especially evident in the American horror genre where clear connections can be drawn between the subtext on screen and real-world events shaping American society. When Universal released films such as Dracula and The Mummy during the 1930s, there was fear of exotic terrors from far-away places. In the 1950s, at the height of the Red Scare, Americans were afraid that their neighbors could not be trusted. Fear had moved to U.S. soil and films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers came out. Then, it the late 1960s, another shift occurred. American horror films began depicting terror as coming from within people's own families.
Movies exist as a sort of window into the subconscious of the society in which they are produced. They reflect people's hopes and fears - both purposefully and accidentally - just like every other form of artistic expression. This has always been especially evident in the American horror genre where clear connections can be drawn between the subtext on screen and real-world events shaping American society. When Universal released films such as Dracula and The Mummy during the 1930s, there was fear of exotic terrors from far-away places. In the 1950s, at the height of the Red Scare, Americans were afraid that their neighbors could not be trusted. Fear had moved to U.S. soil and films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers came out. Then, it the late 1960s, another shift occurred. American horror films began depicting terror as coming from within people's own families.
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