Films have a history that is timeless as the sun. The different genres all have a followership among the millions of film enthusiasm all over the world. The followership is mainly due to the approach in production or the styles that the whole movie portrays. Besides, it could be that the main characters have a specialty in the role. This paper aims its research in comparing the horror in two films namely scream two and wrong turn by focusing its findings on two to three horror elements as depicted by Well and Evans in their respective book as discussed below in detail.
Horror films in most cases leave the audience having a spinal chill, the themes that they portray, range from emotionally scary to mentally disturbing. The reality that they represent may alter the actuality that the audience experiences by giving those fascinating experiences that leave them wanting more and more horror films to watch. In that context, different films are set in a way to elicit specific emotions that may result in some desired effect. Scream 2 is a horror movie that precedes scream. The main characters in the film are a woman and a tabloid reporter who survived the first sequel of the horror movie. The murder of two college students during a movie results into the survivors intending to unearth the copycat killer who is on the loose and a killing spree (Scream II). The film depicts some themes that are used to ensure that the plot of the film is theatrical, as a horror movie needs to be.
Murder as a topic is active in the setting of the movie. The subject of death is seen when two college students are killed during the preview of a movie dubbed stab. The incidence leaves the only survivors from the first sequel trying to investigate and finds out who is behind the killing spree. Moreover, from the first sequel, it is evident that murder takes center stage a theme in the sense that many people have been killed, and there are only two lone survivors who can narrate the account of the killings.
Violence is profoundly depicted in the book. The movie – stab – that resulted in the death of the two people shows that violence is a phenomenon that cannot be overlooked. Besides, the murders during the movie also point to the fact that the producers intended to create violence as a vice that can be related to the contemporary society. According to Paul well, the cultural and social dimension can attribute to violence. The setting in which the killings take place clearly supports Paul Well's theory of horror movies often mirroring what the society or culture faces.
Friendship is depicted in scream two the film. Two central characters, who survive murder in the first sequel, are united together trying to find out who the killer is. They do this by trying to conduct a series of ongoing investigation before the killer changes his tactics and eventually kills them. Paul wall in his book has emphasized that horror movies represent a theoretical paradigm as well as the discourse concerning the theological and moral aspects of the real world. The moral issue in this film is seen through the friendship that the characters share as they aim their efforts towards apprehending the killer.
The wrong turn is a movie that has some themes illustrated in it. The central theme of the movie is seen as murder, whereby the film starts with a young couple trying to climb a couple of rocks in a deserted forest (Wrong Turn). One of them is murdered and because of that, their counterpart tries to escape only to be caught and killed. The movie is about friends who take a wrong turn into a territory that is inhabited by cannibalistic deformed humans. The group of friends tries to do everything to survive as they are hunted for sport as well satisfying of sexual pleasure by the cannibalistic breed of forest dwellers.
Sexuality as a theme is depicted in the movie. It is seen that the savage group of people populates in large numbers in the forest. The depiction is justifiable as per Walter Evans, who through his writing, suggest that sexual theories in movies are intended to show a correlation with the development of adolescent teenagers. In the movie, sexuality is dominant as we see some of the characters being involved in a romantic relationship. Sexuality only shows that adolescents in the contemporary world are discovering the changes in their body, just as the cannibalistic forest people were also amazed at the huge difference between them and the regular people of modern civilization.
Cannibalism is a dominant theme in the movie. People, who take the wrong turn are mutilated and eaten as food by the mutated persons in the forest. Besides, cannibalism shows a reality that many adolescents believe. In the contemporary society, some adolescent teenagers believe in the idea of vampires and Wolfman. According to Walter Evans, teenagers believe that the change in their bodies can be likened to mythical figures such as vampires. Nonetheless, the writer in his book depicts the physical transformation of monsters in this case cannibalism as having direct links to youth development thereby implying why most teenagers are attracted to watching horror movies.
Works Cited
Scream II. Dir. Wes Craven. Dimension Films, 1997. Film
Wrong Turn. Dir. Rob Schmidt. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 2003. Film.
