02-10-2010, 05:56 AM
Zach Wrote:My favorite three types of horror film are the supernatural, the scientific, and the naturalistic. Supernatural is my most favorite film since we all know that we most often think of this as the true Horror movie, this is where I come across supernatural monsters such as vampires, werewolves, demons, ghosts and zombies. These are creatures of legend and come from thousands of years of human psychic response to the mysteries of the earth. Second is the scientific horror film, it is the type where I find the mad scientist creating or discovering something outside of nature; something that will be lost from human control and run amok before being overpowered usually by the military, and the world is restored to peace and harmony. The monsters featured here are often new creations, things we've never imagined, never mind seen. Sometimes they are not made or found by Man - they Some monsters may be difficult to slot into a certain genre. Or, indeed, are perhaps covered up by the media for fear of copycat crimes. The third batch of my favorite horror films are the naturalistic monsters which our daily news is often reporting. In Night of the Living Dead, a radio announcement is heard that links the zombie madness to a returned space probe. In the follow-up, Dawn of the Dead, one of the major characters recalls something his grandfather had said that gives a supernatural explanation to the undead plague. The Return of the Living Dead instructs us that zombies can be created from the application of a certain toxic substance managed by the military. For example, the giant bear that runs amok in Grizzly could be hungry due to a lack of his usual forestry foodstuffs (creating a naturalistic horror), or he could be a scientifically altered, perhaps by man made chemicals in the water supply, to reach a monstrous size and therefore unable to not eat humans to supplement his diet. And in Day of the Dead, the scientists claim to be on the verge of discovering the true reason why the dead walk. This lands the film in the scientific horror realm. Now, none of this is simple and strict categorization. Science-based horror is the result in all three instances. Other times the monster is an animal, such as a bear or a reptile (usually grown to above-average size), or even a group of beasts (ants, bees, spiders, dogs)
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