Horror Films

LeGarrette Blount
AAD 250
May 10th 2009
Prof. Huette
Have you ever seen the movie “The Silence Of The Lambs”? Just the name of it can give someone chills but yet we still watch it and get scared out of our minds every time. It is those parts where Lector will look at his victims as if they were a piece of meat, literally. It is almost as if you could look right through to his soul but keep on going because there is nothing but a dark hole where his soul should be. Like the quote in the reading, The horror of everyday Life, the usual ways of understanding psychotic killers is “ anger, social acceptance, sexual frustration”(The Horror Of Everyday Life Pg.9) This is all very obvious when it comes to this movie, no one in their right mind would keep women alive for five days, then kill and skin them. There is some obvious anger and sexual frustration going on there because he only captures women, not men. When it comes to social acceptance, there basically is none and that is why these people turn out so weird, its like revenge to society in their minds, they cant fit in or don’t want to because they are sick in the mind so they do the opposite which is to kill and torture innocent people, or in this case women, one by one. There will always be movies like this one that come out and there will always be people that will stand in line to see these movies because they love the thrill and excitement mixed with the fear of the unknown.
Works Cited: Niesel, J.,(1994) ‘The Horror of Everyday Life’, Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture. Retrieved May 7th, 2009,from http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol2is4/horror.html