WRIT2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: List Of Body Horror Media, Divine Retribution, Analog Science Fiction And Fact
Lecture 10 – 17/5/18 – Genre: Horror
Horror is divided into three (possibly more) sub-genres
- The Uncanny
o “oure of horror is astoudig ut ratioal i eplaatio (outer spae alies,
science-made monsters, maniac etc.)
▪ Frankenstein
▪ Dracula
▪ Night of the Living Dead
▪ Alien
▪ Silence of the Lambs
- Supernatural
o Source of horror is an irrational phenomenon from the spirit realm
▪ The Sixth Sense
▪ Others
▪ Ringu
▪ The Exorcist
▪ Nightmare on Elm Street
▪ Friday the 13th
- Super-Uncanny
o Where the audience is kept guessing between two possibilities
▪ The Tenant
▪ Hour of the Wolf
▪ The Shining
▪ Do’t look ow
▪ Rosear’s Ba
More discreet sub-genres
- Supernatural
- Creature feature
- Slasher
- Body horror
- Zombie
- Vampire
- Werewolf
- Ghost
- Possession
- Cannibal
- Splatter
- Survival
- Sci-fi/Horror
- Serial Killer
- Ecological
- Gothic
- Psychological
Traditional themes of sex in horror
- Divine retribution for having sex
- More metaphorically the stranger (monster/human) is used as threat to society and sexual
mores
- Psycho/sexual predator preying on (usually) his (usually female) quarry often employs
grossly violent sex as integral to the plot, but not as eroticism
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