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Horror Movies: The Acceptance Of Horror Films

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Horror Films Horror Films are defined as unsettling films created to scare and frighten; cause stress, alarm and dread; and to awaken the worst hidden fears that are locked away in people’s subconscious, often in a terrifying and shocking climax while capturing their ascination at the same time (http://www.filmsite.org/horrorfilms.html) Horror films are easy to identify because they have a distinguished and recognizable pattern that happens again and again. They play on the audiences’ primal fears; they deal with their phobias, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Usually, their plots often include an evil force intruding in the lives of the living, seeking revenge or wanting to take possession of someone’s body. These examples are called cycles, and this is a process in which Horror Films are remade more than once or twice or their plot becomes a basis for another one, or that one movie is made to have several sequels or prequels until they run out of steam and then they would repeat the same pattern again (http://www.filmsite.org/supernatfilms.html ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film) …show more content…

The considered first horror film ever produced was Le Manoir du Diable (The Manor of the Devil) by Georges Méliès which was released in the year 1896. As early as the 1930’s, horror films have been a part of the Philippine cinema thanks to the talents of Mr. Jose Nepomuceno, the first one to ever try his hand at Filipino filmmaking so he was dubbed as the Father of Philippine Cinema. Nepomuceno ventured into native folklore and Christian symbols a decade after he started. His first horror films were Tiyanak (Changeling) and Mang Tano: Nuno ng mga Aswang (Old Man Tano: Ancestor of Vampires), both produced in 1932

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