RE220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Japanese Horror, Jump Scare, Goodnight Mommy
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Always on edge / multiple cliff hangers. Horror films is a statement for cinemas. American horror is based on japanese horror movies. Moving images on the screen, scared people. Same thing as the rocky horror show. To stand up; to stand on end. Something is doing religious work id it engaged in negotiating what it means to be human. Our religious self play a role on how we negotiate our human appearance. Rituals, funerals make a transformation of the body. Puberty, lost of virginity, is a reoccurring theme in horror movies. Puberty is awkward, pregnancy birth is painful metaphor for a nightmare project whatever goes wrong can go wrong. In horror, all of individual fear is given in visual forms. Rosemary baby changes in the body. Horror is the why the body reacts to find that horrifying moment. Praying for the mother to come back. Demonized her and want to kill her.
