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Compare And Contrast The Horror Films Of The 1960's

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There are infinite comparisons between 1960’s horror movies and 2000’s horror movies, along with many differences. Horror movies are films that contain blood and guts, as well as weapons and death. Movies of the 1960’s have many similar ideas, whether it was encouragement to other horror movies or just having a similar antagonist. There were many popular movies in the 1960’s and they had less gore and less CGI throughout the film. One of the most popular movies of 1960’s is the famous Alfred Hitchcock movie “Psycho (1960)”. Psycho is about a woman named Marion, who had just stolen money from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend. She ends up getting caught in a storm, and she has to stop at the Bates Motel, and she meets the …show more content…

CGI stands for computer-generated imagery (special visual effects created using computer software). The Birds is about a woman named, ‘Melanie Daniels’ who gets these birds and gifts them to a man named, ‘Mitch Brenner’. One day at a party for Mitch Brenner’s sister, the birds start attacking everyone. A whole butterfly effect happens and one after another, all the birds in the area are attacking the civilians. According to the article, ‘How Alfred Hitchcock Brought The Birds' Titular Terrors To Life’, it states, “One of Alfred Hitchcock's most beloved films also happens to be one of the most technically challenging productions; in the days of early CGI, orchestrating a creature feature was a daunting task — but not too daunting for a filmmaker known for pioneering storytelling techniques.” The statement explains that the movie was challenging to make and edit as it was a start of CGI at the time. CGI took years to be as realistic as it is today. CGI was a very difficult invention throughout the 1900’s. Even with CGI not being finished, Alfred Hitchcock took this opportunity to make his movie …show more content…

House of 1000 Corpses is about these two couples who decide to take a roadtrip, they stumbled upon ‘Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen,’ and they meet people who kill others. According to IMDb, they state, “During an attempted robbery, two robbers hold two other men at gunpoint. One shot is fired into the ceiling, and no one is hurt. One of the attackers is shot in the head (blood shown). The other attacker is hit in the head with a blunt object, and blood is shown.” This scene is an example about all the gore that is shown in this movie. In modern horror, gore has been more realistic and is actually being shown. 1960’s horror movies did not intend on showing blood or guts because it was more difficult to use items/ props to look like blood (ex. Pig Guts and Cornstarch with Food Coloring). House of 1000 Corpses is one of the most popular horror movies of the

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Hitchcock utilizes sound, camera work, MacGuffins, and plot twists to tell the storylines of the movies. Hitchcock understood the importance of camera work and sound because he began his career making silent films.12 It is why he uses many close up shots so the audience can pay attention to specific details and the emotions on the character’s face. He does not rely on dialogue to tell the story. He uses sound to help convey the message of a scene.

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Take the Saw series for example. The Saw movies are some of the most popular horror movies ever made. Ever since the 2004 release of the original movie, people everywhere waited and hoped for another one. Although considered a horror movie, Saw is more like a torture film. It is not just something with clowns and a murderer.

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The first, obvious, difference between them, is that most of the movie took place in a town or city, not a country or farm like in the story. I definitely liked the story version with the farm much better than the city setting. I felt like it was cleaner and easier to understand whereas the movie’s town setting made it a bit more hectac. Although the city gave the plot more action, I thought, the farm made it more spooky and creepy, which I preferred. The last difference is the fact that the main character in the the movie was a female, when the main character in the story is a male.

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I was impressed of how you observed the different shadings on the house and I have to check it out myself, too and I have to agree with you. On the other hand, I believe this horror film takes advantage more on its certain elements of cinematic language . For example, the lighting strategy and dark shadows inside the Bates Motel created an eerie character which resulted this film to be linked into horror

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Sure the last act has a mixture of CGI and Practical thrown in, but by and large the film just relies on tension. The not seeing being what scary. Though this abandon during the last section of the film, when the film quickly devolves into a creature feature. A good one

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When it comes to Psycho, written by Robert Bloch, there is a degree of misrepresentation, as the story is yet another example of using a mental health condition as a plot device. However, it also utilizes it as a form of explanation, even justification, for the character’s actions. Psycho tells the story of Norman Bates, who is a seemingly incompetent man living with his mother, Norma Bates, and running the Bates Motel. He is portrayed as nervous, reclusive, and

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The Film Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, effectively presented the ideas of murder and schizophrenia through the use of characters, with the double-sided Norman Bates in particular, and visual techniques as well as sound techniques. The ideas of murder and schizophrenia were presented well in the movie "psycho" through the use of characters. The character of Norman Bates was the central character in the film and had a complex and differing personality. One moment he was shy, kind, lonely Norman Bates, a mother's boy, and the next he was a deadly jealous Mrs. Bates, his deceased mother.

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Her rejection puts Hitchcock in a frustrated and sadistic mood; his love for her shattered. Out of spite he sent her five-year-old daughter a doll that resembled her mother in a coffin shaped box. He also threatened to wipe Hedren’s face from stardom. The cruelest action Hitchcock committed in his revenge game was he replaced the mechanical birds with live ones in the film The Birds. He plays out his own mini film as he punishes Hedren for rejecting him.

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Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film Psycho redirected the entire horror genre, and in doing so dismantled the prudent 1950’s societal barriers of cinema. Although unseen for its potential by the large studios of the time, Psycho became one of the crowning achievements of film history. While based partially on a true story of murder and psychosis from Wisconsin, the widespread viewing of this tale made way for a new era of film and ushered in a new audience of movie goers. The use of violence, sexual explicitness, dramatic twists, sound, and cinematography throughout this film gave Hitchcock his reputable name and title as master of suspense.

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However, film critic, Robin Wood, argues that ‘since Psycho, the Hollywood cinema has implicitly recognised horror as both American and familial’ he then goes on to connect this with Psycho by claiming that it is an “innovative and influential film because it supposedly presents its horror not as the produce of forces outside American society, bit a product of the patriarchal family which is the fundamental institution of American society” he goes on to discuss how our civilisation either represses or oppresses (Skal, 1994). Woods claim then suggests that in Psycho, it is the repressions and tensions within the normal American family which produces the monster, not some alien force which was seen and suggested throughout the 1950 horror films. At the beginning of the 60’s, feminisation was regarded as castration not humanization. In “Psycho” (1960) it is claimed that the film presents conservative “moral lessons about gender roles of that the strong male is healthy and normal and the sensitive male is a disturbed figure who suffers from gener confusion” (Skal, 1994). In this section of this chapter I will look closely at how “Psycho” (1960) has layers of non-hetro-conforming and gender-non conforming themes through the use of Norman Bates whose gender identitiy is portrayed as being somewhere between male and female

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