Special Effects Have Contributed To Increased Violence In Horror Films

Special effects have become essential to horror movies because it has provided for filmmakers to incorporate more innovative ideas to make their horror movies more interesting and immersive to viewers. However, this has allowed for horror movies to become some of the costliest projects to produce and have even allowed for some independent companies not to secure the needed funds to continue making horror movies. This has caused for some people to oppose special effects because it has allowed for only big-name and high-budget companies to succeed and not allow independent companies to compete with them. Special effects have also contributed to an increased violence in horror movies. This has contributed to some immature viewers to suffer from

Special effects have allowed for filmmakers to create unique protagonists and antagonists in their horror movies with distinctive personalities for each. This has also allowed for filmmakers to degrade the characters’ body to make it more immersive and realistic to viewers. According to Mario Rodriguez, said: “the horror movie villain troubles the neatly delineated boundaries of the body”(214). Special effects have allowed for filmmakers to have more options to approach when creating characters, and it has allowed for them to create aliens, cyborgs, monsters. According to Stacey Abbott, a reader in the Film and Television Studies at the University of Roehampton analyzed the creation of David, a robot-boy created by Steven Spielberg who used a mixture of a real child actor combined with new digital technology to make him a half robot and half human(100). Special effects have helped to enhance the quality of horror movies by providing filmmakers more innovative ways to enhance their movie. This has also contributed to more viewers garnering interest in watching horror