Week Four The New Weird

Since there were many different types horror genre already written in the world, there is new movement of making new way of writing horror genre. They sometimes bring other old original story or horror story already exist and twist it. I’ve read ‘The Werewolf’ and ‘The Snow Child’ and both sounds like both parody like story of ‘Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Snow White’ story. It feels like it is less driven by the mood of it, but the twist itself. It feels less dreary more gory and random not heavy, light fun literature to some one likes gory stuffs. It feels like a thing even non-professional people can write. Since both that I read were parody, it was interesting how they made the story darker. But I was confused a lot by the randomness of those twists. I think it is defiantly a fun way to give a new way of writing horror story. It’s good way to fill the demand of nowadays people’s crave for new shocking things every day. 

Week Three J Horror

I don't know why there is a Chinese ghost story on the class resource page but I read the The Soul of the Great Bell  of Chinese Ghost Story. It's a story of people making bells ended up making important bell with sacrifice of a women jumped herself into the hot furnace by the prophecy saying it will need sacrifice of a woman to make one. Sounds like old Chinese horror story don't usually involved with ghost looking for people to kill. But this is kind of tear jerking, brave story, not necessary scary to describe the story. Sounds like most of those forms by gods, prophecy , legend, and legendary items. I don't know what kind of lesson this is trying to tell the people. Maybe it want to say sacrificing for greater good is good. I think most of old Asian stories are it is just a folktale that people like to tell their kid to scare them.

Week Two Vampires

           I’ve watched The ‘Fearless Vampire Killers’, and ‘What We Do in the Shadows’. The ‘Fearless Vampire Killers’ was old quite typical movie about vampire tried to eat virgin’s blood of the house he stayed and get punished by muscular guy from the house. ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ was the movie that is soot like a documentary about normal day of vampires. Vampires in media are usually try to blend in with people because they are one of the most similar horror creature to humans. And they usually try to get in and stay someone’s house who they want to eat at night ,or bring one person they want to eat at night to their place. Even though They look very look like human There are some differences. They usually shown as pale skin, never die of old age, older than their looks, fangs that are grow when they hunt or always sharp, attracts humans, and get weaker when they go out to the sun. For old version of vampires are usually something to fear at and need to defeat or run away from. But recent versions of vampires are shown as more human like personalities, have more ability than old versions of vampires, or something to admire that people want to turn into. Some of movies like ‘Twilight’ series even portrays vampires as something what people want to date with. It’s quite interesting to see what people thought as monster to be avoid much as possible turn in to someone they want to meet and become. 

Week One Frankenstein and the Gothic

I’ve read the ‘White ship’. Gothic horrors are usually heading toward to sulky horror feeling, and they start with legends pass by mouth to mouth like in ‘White Ship’. In the ‘white Ship’, there is a bearded man telling the main character Basil Elton, about the wonders of secret place above sunken slimy rocks far from the shore stands the gray lighthouse. Main character goes journey, but just like usual Gothic horror, which is one of the characteristic of Gothic horror, it goes wrong by the poor decision of main character, which is going further than what the bearded man told Basil to go. It also characterized by happening in fictional fantasy world, and internal struggle, sub-consciousness of characters. Gothic horror usually centered with gore creatures, but this one is only involved in fantasy world. It was quite interesting to know that main character get punished by their poor decision not only happened in recent horror movies but in old Gothics also.