Analysis Of Night By Margaret Gore

The horror genre has existed for a centuries, and its purpose is to ignite fear. Which also brings up the question, can fear be enjoyable? In actual fact, it can. It somehow brings out the adrenaline rush within the audience. Quite identical to the experiences that people have when they go on a roller coaster ride.

There are more pleasures to be gained from frightening films if we think of aesthetic experience more narrowly defined, the pleasure of cognitive and emotional self-expansion, imaginary role-play and self-fashioning. Through an act of transferring personal thoughts, emotions and body schemas, the viewer uses their own imagination and completes the characters and worlds offered by the film. The spectator transcends his or her own

The real horrors of the war, plus the threat posed by the new atomic age, made Dracula look a bit silly. As in 1936, audiences began to tire of the same old thing; film noir, which incorporated some horror elements, took up the slack.” Gore is the kind of horror movies that are very thrilling in the sadistic kind of way. This type of horror movie usually has the elements of blood, murder and violence. The plot usually involves a murderer, going around violently killing people. Some examples are Saw, Final Destination and Child’s Play. Usually classified under horror due to its gory and grotesque imagery. There are elements of gore in the Monster and Spiritual Horror types too. As Julian Hanich (Page 13) stated in Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers:

“Carroll’s analysis of the ‘emotive address’ of genres, for instance, states that melodramas generally elicit pity and admiration, and horror films evoke fear and

Eli is portrayed as normal-looking little girl. As compared to other vampires throughout movie history, Eli looks non-threatening. Even though she does kill for blood, when the audience sees that she cares for Oscar, and that in the later parts of the film, she injures or kills the bullies to protect him, somehow makes the audience forgive her brutal actions. This does not really work out if it was supposed to be a horror genre, because the supernatural antagonist is not really the true villain of the film, and it humanizes her too much, which takes away any frightening thoughts the audience may have of the character. It is mainly because we know that she would never hurt Oscar, the