ENGL 4300Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Horror Film, Splatter Film, Blonde Stereotype
1 Apr 2016
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Focus on the first article gerry canavan. Reception won 18 awards with another 32 nominations. Conceived as a critique on the torture porn . The upstairs plot focuses on five teens, who got to the cabin for a weekend getaway. The upstairs plot is the result of the downstairs plot. Horror film archetypes athlete, whore, virgin, academic, fool. They are plays on the traditional archetypes due to the fact that they do not always follow their archetypes. Downstairs plot is the catalyst for the upstairs plot. Hadley and sitterson, representations of goddard and whedon, the film"s. Different perspectives: what the upstairs experience, what the downstairs experience, what the ancient ones demand, what the audience wants to see. The final scene going against the traditional. At the end of the film, dana (virgin) and marty (fool) choose to allow the world to end instead of killing each other to fulfill the ancient ones" wishes. The appeal of horror is the death.
