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Stuck in the video rental shop

On Halloween night 1997, you decided to rent a horror movie for the night. No one was inside the video rental shop, not even the sales assistant. When you asked "Is someone there ?", the shutters were lowered and locked and you heard footsteps leaving you stuck inside.Read and watch the documents and take the challenges to gather the keys that will open the shutters and let you free.

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In the 1950's there was a growing fear of nuclear weaponry and the possibility of human extinction which stemmed from WW2 and the Hiroshima bombings. This fear was implemented into horror films such as Godzilla (1954) and Them! (1954) which both feature the world ending threats of giant creatures caused by American nuclear experiments.In the 1970's the most prolific horror films were made such as The Exorcist, Carrie, The Wicker Man and Jaws, which all have influenced societal fears. However the horror film that represented the biggest fear of society was Halloween (1978) which drew its influences from many places such as Alfred Hitcock's Psycho (1960) as well as real life serial killers. Halloween was made during a time when serial killers were prevalent, therefore the movie dug into the fear of serial killers in the American Society. It was so influential in its concept that it ended up creating a new sub-genre, the Slasher genre which continued in the 1980's with film franchise like Friday the 13th (1980) and a Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) that drew their fear from real events of serial murders which are placed as a warning to the audience that society is unsafe for teenagers who were the main demographic of these films.

The horror genre is one of the oldest genres in storytelling and it has evolved over time to appeal to the fears of the time. Horror films specifically use several aspects to frighten audiences, however in a quote from John Carpenter he sums up the factors behind creating fears by saying: "There are two different stories in horror; internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the Human heart" Societal fears have influenced horror films in many different ways as cultural fears have changed; "America is a nation that was built on violence. The country has faced a long history of trauma and turmoil; the massacre of the Indigenous population, the Civil War, Prohibition, the Vietnam War... Jim Crow segregation (McNeely, 2018). Horror films from the 1910's up until the 1940's seemed mostly to be about similar things with the monster being some kind of creature such as Frankestein (1931) or Dracula (1931) who tends to live segregated from the nearby village. These concepts may have reflected the fear of war from foreign countries as the monsters in these films were detached from normal society.

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1. What are the two different stories in horror movies ?________ & ________.2. When was there a fear of nuclear weaponry in America ?____3. Who is the killer in the movie series Halloween?______ _____4. When was created the Slasher movie genre ?____'s5. How long is the movie Night of the zombies?__ _______6. Who is the director of the movie Scream? ___ ______

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The Slasher Film: Emergence and Evolution*In December 1996, Dimension Films © 6, Dimension Films released Scream, a slasher film that went on to resurrect and redefine that dormant genre for a new generation of teenager ....

The Slasher Film: Emergence and Evolution

By the late 1980s, it appeared that the cycle of teen-oriented slasher films had played itself out. These innovations failed to refresh the genre or attract an audience, and the genre fell dormant between the late 1980s and mid 1990. It would take the launch of Dimension, an American film production company, to resurrect the slasher genre and launch a new cycle. Furthermore, any attempt to resurrect the slasher genre had to acknowledge the changes that had overtaken the film and media industries, as well as developments in the teen market. John Carpenter, the auteur responsible for horror-slasher classics such as Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), and Village of the Damned (1995), noted that any attempt to resurrect the slasher film must necessarily take into account "[the] cynical, young, new [1990s teenage] audience who believe very sincerely that they're smarter than the movies they see". In short, the new teen audience of the 1990s would motivate the slasher genre's shift from 1980s slasher movies towards a 1990’s postmodern and renewed genre.

In December 1996, Dimension Films © 6, Dimension Films released Scream, a slasher film that went on to resurrect and redefine that dormant genre for a new generation of teenager. The teen-oriented slasher film came into its own in the 1970s, with the release of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Halloween (1978), and became one of the most popular horror subgenres in the decade that followed. It was in the 1980s that the familiar conventions of the teen slasher film were established. These conventions include: a group of young, often teenage, characters as potential victims; imperiled, attractive young women being stalked by a knife-wielding, virtually indestructible, psychotic serial killer; and scenes of unexpected and shocking violence and brutality. Teen slasher films also originated the trend toward spin-offs, sequels, and imitators, sparking a rash of successful slasher film franchises. In examining the audience for slasher films of the 1970s and early 1980s,"the majority audience, perhaps even more than the audience for horror in general, was largely young males. Young males are also the slasher film's implied audience, the object of its address"

The Slasher Film: Emergence and Evolution

In December 1996, Dimension Films © 6, Dimension Films released Scream, a slasher film that went on to resurrect and redefine that dormant genre for a new generation of teenager. The teen-oriented slasher film came into its own in the 1970s, with the release of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Halloween (1978), and became one of the most popular horror subgenres in the decade that followed. It was in the 1980s that the familiar conventions of the teen slasher film were established. These conventions include: a group of young, often teenage, characters as potential victims; imperiled, attractive young women being stalked by a knife-wielding, virtually indestructible, psychotic serial killer; and scenes of unexpected and shocking violence and brutality. Teen slasher films also originated the trend toward spin-offs, sequels, and imitators, sparking a rash of successful slasher film franchises. In examining the audience for slasher films of the 1970s and early 1980s,"the majority audience, perhaps even more than the audience for horror in general, was largely young males. Young males are also the slasher film's implied audience, the object of its address"

The Slasher Film: Emergence and Evolution

By the late 1980s, it appeared that the cycle of teen-oriented slasher films had played itself out. These innovations failed to refresh the genre or attract an audience, and the genre fell dormant between the late 1980s and mid 1990. It would take the launch of Dimension, an American film production company, to resurrect the slasher genre and launch a new cycle. Furthermore, any attempt to resurrect the slasher genre had to acknowledge the changes that had overtaken the film and media industries, as well as developments in the teen market. John Carpenter, the auteur responsible for horror-slasher classics such as Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), and Village of the Damned (1995), noted that any attempt to resurrect the slasher film must necessarily take into account "[the] cynical, young, new [1990s teenage] audience who believe very sincerely that they're smarter than the movies they see". In short, the new teen audience of the 1990s would motivate the slasher genre's shift from 1980s slasher movies towards a 1990’s postmodern and renewed genre.

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• A group of teenagers that decide to camp in the woods. They are killed one by one by a mysterious killer. What we have left is a found footage of their difficulties

• A family moving into a new house in a remote place, after a while, the children start hearing and seeing supernatural scary elements

• A group of teenagers as potential victims, young women being stalked by a psychotic serial killer, scenes of violence and tensions…

What are the conventions to the slasher movies genre ?

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• Teenager girls

• Teenage boys

• Adults

Who was the main audience for horror films in the 1980’s ?

• In 1998 because the audience believed they were smarter than the movies they saw

• Between 1970 and 1980 because people thought it was too violent

• Between 1980 and 1990, because it was too low budget and too repetitive

When did slasher horror movies become less popular and why ?

• Dimension film

• Columbia Pictures

• Warner Bros

Which film production company resurrected the dormant genre of slasher movies ?

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TRUE

The slasher genre was resurrected in 1996

FALSE

TRUE

To ressurect the slasher genre, the movie production had to acknowledge the changes in the film industries as well as the new audience

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