we are going to identify films in the horror genre and use christian Metz model of development to recognise the horror genre existence and development.
introduction - Metz theory
christian metz in his book language and cinema (1974) explored the development of genre film and suggested that genres pass through four phases of existence.
1) the experimental - by this we mean the phase of early films which explored and experimented with horror themes in its narrative because they helped formalize the narrative conventions of the horror film in the earliest phase.
2) the classic- by this we mean the phase of films which established the narrative conventions of the horror genre in its most successful and definery period.
3) the parody-by this we mean films that have mixed the horror genre in some cathical way.
4) the deconstruction- by this we mean films which have taken the generic elements of the horror genre and malagamated them into various sub genres.
some examples of theses are;
*se7en - the deconstruction (elements of horror)
*Frankenstein- the experimental
*Dracula- the classic
*carry on screaming - the experimental
*scary movie - the parody
*se7en- physcological thriller/horror
*the sixth sense- supernatural thriller/horror
*Blair witch- documentary film/horror
