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Representation of women in horror movies




Most of the gender representation in horror movies is based in the ying and yang theory, where they believe that one needed the other to be a certain way to leave in harmony and some of this is still the structure in which men and women are compared to one another, for example the male character is the dominate powerful and active whereas the women is passive and submissive and yet is still looked upon as sexual object who is both desirable and seductive, which in this case how can she be both for it is exactly those things that give her power that a male would never obtain, if she can seduce then that leaves her with a great amount of control over the male character dose it not.


The representation of this women in horror movies is also based in the old belifies that women are not to contribute in sex before marriage, which is why most of the women in acceptation to the final girl, are murdered in a groused and most brutal way, mostly being that of suffocation, where the men in the movie are simply stabbed once. The women are stabbed repeatedly over and over aging even after they are dead. This leads me to believe that the male gazer enjoys this and the producer encourages such action to the fact that the techniques used in these particular scenes are heightened in angels, lighting and clarity.


The reason why women are constantly chosen to be the victim is also for that same reason, because of tradition and the following of the old ways. Yet that dose not stop some of us from wanting the women to be the huntress the villain behind the masks . Since the 70’s women portrayal has in no way changed though some have apparently tried to show them in a more positive lighting. I suppose that some would say this is because horror movies require a certain type of victims. But dose the women constantly have to be the victim and if so the why.


Through time the female character is shown in horror in different ways . some would say that as time passes the Women that once were weak are beginning to come into their own and show quit the amount of power and control , showing that they are just as strong as men and are not the sexual objects they were once perceived as in classic horror really to me this thing only seem to apply to the final girl and non of the other women in the movie. Where the woman are shown as simply an object of desire that needs to be saved by a male from the supernaturally strong Villain. Slasher films with women as villains are not often being made, but those that are show that the force and power of women in horror cannot be ignored. Although much progress is still needed with some films seeming to move back in time with women characters, instead of forward.


The Cinematic gaze it self according Laura Mulvey seem to be centred around masculine perception or some would say point of you. The camera follows the movement of a women as though it was a male and there for making you do the same to, leaving you only to relate to the male and at some point to the villain himself , blaming the women for his lack of control and current state of mind.


The male killer it seem in most horror movies, fears a sexually independent woman and this is shown through the killers act of murder and use of knife her death, it is said that when the male killer stabs the girl with his knife he is taking away her sexual power through the symbolic rape of her body. Thus making her once more the weak and submissive female figure that she started of as at the beagging of the movie .

House Of Fear-2008 Horror/Thriller film.
Genere- Is revealed to all the aoudince from the bigining of the first scene,the subbtitles and the title it self is an indicatione that this is a horror movie and also the the build in the well composed background music that flows effertly with that of the editting of the scenes. No voice over.
Name of the movie- House of fears
Production Values- Only indecates that it will be a "Coming Soon" pruduction and that it is a Black RCHID entertaimnet.

• No Indication of

1. Release Date
2. Identification of Director
3. Producer
4. Actors or Editer

The Hitcher Teaser Trailer

Genre - Action/horror shown by the 'Voice Over' the manner in which the clips are constucted and editided along with the music that build with the pace of the movement within the scenen's that also contains the quit the build-up as the scene start to reveal the horror within the soon to be movie. There is haowever the mixture of dialog that contibuits a great amount to the emphasing of the genre.

Name Of Movie- The Hitcher, is revealed at the end of the teaser trailer with a simple coming soon and no menting of the date so might not have been that populer.

Pruduction Values- Shows that it is A Rouge Interpio Pictures product, however there is no mentioning of the Directer,Releasse date, or identification of the stars staring in the movie proving this to be a teaser as the is no furefillment of the some of the main Key Conventions that are expected in an actuel trailer. however there is the advetismentd of some special effects in the clips reveald within one of the teaser cilps.

The Transformers SCI-Fi/action trailer
Contains.
Genre is made clear in the globe shot at the begining of the scene, Biuld-up of the music and hintting of subtittles.
-Realese date
-Mixture of Dialogue that is part of the movie itself
Director- Michael Bay
- and again the release date again at the end othe trailer.
- a numerass amount of special effects
-Missing-
Production Values such as the - identification of Stars staring in the Movie.
- Voice over
- No Verbul or writen introduction on Characters

The Return of the repressed.

The return of the repressed is an instinct, or memory that is deeply buried in the unconscious, that is constantly battling to resurface.

The impulse, to let this instinct free is utterly powerful that at some point in life it may go far beyond control and take over because of its urge to penetrate consciousness. Of coarse this only seems to happen when triggered by something a past memory or a resents event.

This is linked to a lot of horror movies as they are constantly show of monsters like werewolf’s and vampires constantly trying to repress the animal with in them there thirst to hunt for blood, to kill.

When looking for the centeral key convention within the Snow White trailer i found that it applied to all of them.
Genre is Indicated by - subtitels such as "The Fairy Tail Is Over" the building of the suspending music that you associate with in horrer films and the representation of the title writen in snow and blood indicating death.
Name- Snow White A Tale Of Terror
Production Values - Stars

• Sigourney Weawer ( as Queen Cloadia)
• Sam Niel (as King Hoffman/Father)
• Monica Keena (as Lilliana Hoffman)

Director-Michael Cohn Producar - Tom Englemen Edited by - Ian Crafford

The Shining

When watching the acuring events in the shining, (a Horror movie made by Stanly Kubrick in the year 1980)to the Propp narative i noticed severual categoris like In Preperation: the leaving of a family Member, in this case jack who is equally both the victim(of the Hotel) and the Villen which as his past history suggest a loss of temper and his preacius job, is brought forth , and then there is the rule imposed by Halloran the chief upon Danny who is placed as the princess/hero in the prop narative, not to enter room '237', that fit perfacly well with propp narative. And then there is also the Complications that in every number of films in this case a conflict acours between wendy and jack as his wife wants to take there son to a hospital and jack acouses her of being a self centerd women who cares nothing for him and his futuer, the magical agent in transfernce where danny uses tonny the one that lives inside his mouth to contact halloren for help, who could be seen as donner considering that he was the one to provide them with the means of an escape. Here where the problem with the narrative lays, though the hero/finel girl did escape there is no Return or Recognition amoung other things that leave us with a lot of asumptions to be made from the beging,middle and end.