‘Scare me in 6’ homework
‘FEAR ITSELF’ by Charlie Lyne
‘If horror movies are built to take advantage of who we are and how we work, then what does that say about us?’ (Fear Itself)
People would to cannibalism as the means to survive, and it is understandable, but it becomes unsettling and horror when it is no longer need, but want. What stops people from doing something horrible is their stand against temptation.
‘Fall of the House of Usher’ by Edgar Allan Poe
Galvani (1737-1789) – discovered how electric shock works on muscles by demonstrating it on dead frogs legs.
Giovani Aldini
Aldini’s most famous public demonstration of the electro-stimulation technique of deceased limbs was performed on the executed criminal George Forster at Newgate in London in 1803. The Newgate Calendar describes what happened when the galvanic process was used on the body:
On the first application of the process to the face, the jaws of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye was actually opened. In the subsequent part of the process the right hand was raised and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion.
SOUL THEFT AS MASTER-PLOT
Lumiere brothers:
‘Speech has already been collected and reproduced, now life is collected and reproduced’, ‘when everyone can photograph their dear one no longer in a motionless form in their movement, their activity, their familiar gestures, with words on their lips, then death will have ceased to be absolute.’
Vampires rulebook:
- Can’t stay in the sun
- Has fangs, feeds on blood
- Hates garlic
- Shapeshifters
- Sleep in coffins
- Can only be killed with the steak through their heart
- Can enter only if invited
Zombies:
- Undead, walking corpses
- Hunt for brains
- Killed by decapitation
- Most media portrays it as a consequence of the virus.
EXISTENTIAL DIMINISHMENT:
The zombie has its’ roots in slavery: the uttermost condition of cancelled selfhood.
Zombie folklore has been around for centuries in Haiti, possibly originating in the 17th century when West African slaves were brought in to work on Haiti’s sugar cane plantations. Brutal conditions left the slaves longing for freedom. According to some reports, the life—or rather afterlife—of a zombie represented the horrific plight of slavery.