Horror is nightmares becoming reality.
Horror is a feeling people obtain from things that psychologically give them duress. It is a feeling that preys on the fears many people have. People often get the misconception that horror is a one night stand with danger. Horror is not just a quick scare or a startle, but it is the envelopment of the accumulation of our fears we have developed throughout our lives. The worst example of what horror is is in the film The Strangers. The movie only utilizes the fear of being attacked in a secluded area you find as safe, but it doesn't develop on many fears. Instead of developing on multiple fears, it proceeds to use the same tactical scare over and over again. The overuse and awkwardness of the scare methods completely left this movie completely devoid of horror.
The Strangers by Bryan Bertino: what horror should not be
Horror attacks us in many shapes and many forms, for horror is a creature that constantly changes to adapt to its ever changing audience. Horrific beings are often a complete unknown to us, there is little that we know on them and our imagination tends to get the better of us on such entities. Some take on the forms that seem other worldly and often break the conventions on laws of reality. Others are completely opposite and are entirely designed to fit within the laws of nature, often manipulating them to twisted and grotesque reflections that seem hardly recognizable as the rules our universe has set in motion. Horror is vicious and relentless, it will never stop trying to come after you till your heart pounds with great vigor. Horror is perverse in its ways as it rapes its watchers with every single taboo our society has given,bathing in our displeasure from witnessing such wretchedness. Such a thing exists in the 1979 film Alien by Ripley Scott.
Alien by Ripley Scott: Horror done right, a instant cult classic
The alien creature from the movie Alien (by Ripley Scott) is the true essence of horror. The alien constantly changes its form always keeping the audience guessing as to what it shape will be like and feeding off the fear of the unknown. In one horrifying scene, we witnessed one of the passengers named Kane start to convulse and his fellow crew members try to detain him not knowing as to what is to come. As time passes on the expression on his face becomes that of a man in unbearable agony and we noticed his shirt start to redden with his blood. Before we have time to understand what is happening, he starts his final convulsions before the alien violently burst from his chest, thus given the name from that point on as the "Chestburster" It is horrifying! This man was completely fine one second then immediately dies a very violent death the next as without no warning as to when it will happen. This is not just it's only form: It begins its form as a “Facehugger”, a creature with long fingers to latch onto creatures and an elongated tail it uses to strangle people to force its victims to swallow the embryo it supplements using it's tube-like mouth. After the “Facehugger” dies, soon it takes on it next form a known as the “Chestburster” and literally does as its name implies. It soon reaches maturity, and takes on its host's main traits such as bipedalism , it's size, and even posture. Its black colored exterior, scorpion tail and its secondary mouth located inside its jaws invoke fear upon anyone who witness it. As one of the main characters Ash once said “It is the ultimate survivor, A killing machine” The Alien, it is a creature from our nightmares and will slash and tear at people's psyche for many more years to come.
This I Believe: Horror is often the ignored genius in the room of film genres. Fear is a common emotion that all human beings face, but many horror films of today do not understand that repetition of a single fear is what ruins the experience for people like me. Horror is game of cat and mouse. You always gotta change your game is you wanna catch that mouse.
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