Wednesday 16 December 2015

Introducion

Why are children in horror presented as evil?

“Why are the evil characters always children or targeting children.” (Rachel Howe) Horror films show many negative stereotypes within males and females but in this specific HORROR text, what is most significant about this text is that its ‘children’. This is predominantly clear in Scott Derrickson’s highly successful film, Sinister (2012). In Derrickson’s film, children are presented as the villain/devil in most horror movies, excluding the fact if their males or female both gender stereotypes are shown. It is shown that Sinister shows a negative typecast for children rather than the typical stereotype of children which appears to be the children being harmful and loving. We can also see this in historical, successful Horror films such as IT, the others and the children.

When watching horror films there seems to be nothing scarier than the little kid who just pops up on screen and you know is about to do something so crazy or witness an event that will change their personality for the rest of the film.”

This essay will discover the negative stereotypes of children in Horror films and how this influences other upcoming movies and the audience who are watching. 1896 was the first horror movie to be released. 


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