Friday 4 January 2013

Representation: Men and Women in Horror Movies

In horror movies women are usually seen as the weak characters that get attracted by the monster/killer where they always need to be rescued by the men who are seen as the heroes in the horror genre, but that is not the case in all horror movies as some movies like "scream" where the main protagonist is a girl by the name sidney she's the final girl that the killer faces as she last till the end of the film, this shows that females can be represented as strong characters that can take care of them selves. But if the main protagonist is a male they end up getting killed, also in horror movies they have sets of groups where you have the girls and  the boys, most of the boys and girls are just there to be killed. Men are usually the bad guys or the killers as they seem to have the most power but in some films they have a twist where they make the viewer thing its a man the whole time but it tends up being a girl to give the shock value.

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