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The document discusses how major world events like 9/11 and trends like globalization have impacted the horror film industry. After 9/11, horror films depicting mass destruction were banned, and the industry shifted to producing patriotic films celebrating American heroism. As the effects of 9/11 faded, the horror genre rebounded with remakes of classics and torture films. The industry has also leveraged fears around issues like terrorism, climate change, and a globalized world to create new types of scary stories and movies. However, depicting real-world tragedies requires sensitivity to avoid causing offense. The future of the genre remains uncertain as filmmakers navigate these complex issues.
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- 1. The Horror Film Industry Kali Marcott The Horror Film Industry By: Kali Marcott CTAC 354
- 2. ¡°Mirroring Terror¡±: The Impact of 9/11 on Hollywood Cinema ? This article highlights how horror movies were distorted and manipulated around our every day society. Some movies may have reflected certain events, true events, or a play on. When such things as terrorism come into play, the movies can only go so far. When real world events that are so magnificent, such as 9/11, happen, there is a fine line about movie making after that.
- 3. Globalization, terrorism, climate change, and changing demographics ? The economy has erupted into a large globalization organization. Everyone who is able, has access to everything everywhere. Many organizations and businesses see this as a positive, others don¡¯t. ? Terrorism takes a tole in many aspects of the world and it¡¯s organizations, and something like horror films really is a hard line of what is and isn¡¯t acceptable. ? Climate change is real and it is happening. For some people, they are worried about how to stop it, but for many, they just pretend it doesn¡¯t exist. Organizations are taking notice. ? Changing demographics can hinder businesses or help flourish it depending on who is where at what point in time.
- 4. ? Horror films were so easily able to copy terrorism especially before terrorism happened on U.S. soil. ? Scary tragedies were created and made centrally targeting middle eastern countries as the villain. ? At one point, the world trade center being blown up was a plot of a movie back in 1993, which brought the jihadist to the camera. ? Creators could make ideas of such extremes happening because they weren¡¯t happening here, at least not yet.
- 5. ¡The Terrorist Attack on September 11th, 2001 of the World Trade Center changed everything and everyone¡ ? People all over the country were trying to understand how and why such tragedy like this could happen to us. ? Lives were changed drastically from those involved directly, those indirectly as well. ? Life must go on, and we pulled together as a country and helped move forward. ? As life moved forward, so did entertainment. Thus created the line of what was going to be able to be created and what was going to not be allowed to happen¡
- 6. NO MORE MOVIES ON MASS DESTRUCTION! ? The horror film industry took a hit because it was decided that no more movies could be done about mass destruction ? These kinds of movies made people scared that it was a predictor of what was going to happen after 9/11 ? People even argued that it was Hollywood¡¯s fault for 9/11 for depicting an awful tragedy to the U.S. ? Some even said, such an event such as 9/11 was unimaginable if it weren¡¯t seen previously in such a way as a movie.
- 7. Marching to a Military Beat.. ? Hollywood was to produce gentler, kinder films post 9/11 ? To the industry surprise, people were not buying. ? Movies such as Die Hard and True Lies were being rented three times more than usual. ? The films were about to take a turn towards¡Heroism
- 8. ? The horror film industry was being highly over shadowed due to Hollywood creating patriotism through movies. ? Movies started becoming more centralized on America being strong, overcoming tragedies, and fighting. ? Some examples were Behind Enemy Lines, Black Hawk Down, and We Were Soldiers were becoming what people wanted to see.
- 9. ? Super hero movies were being created. ? Patriotism in movies were being created. ? The shift in the want of the movie industry from the audience was changing. ? President choices that affect the safety and progress of the U.S. were themes of multiple movies and it was soaring.
- 10. ? Post 9/11, the movie industry was just like the 1970¡¯s. ? This retro-trend allowed the horror film industry boom with remakes of classic horror films. ? ¡¡±The idea of living with terrorism¡. Evil lurking in remote places at home¡±¡ ? This thought evoked an eruption of the gross and gorey movies in the horror film industry such as the Devil¡¯s Rejects, the Hills Have Eyes and more movies alike. ? The idea of people being caught up in their own terror of experiencing flesh eaters, monsters, savage strangers, and deadly threats were popular amongst the audience.
- 11. ¡°Torture Porn¡± ? Recent horror films had their own style and theme that was reappearing. Movies such as Hostel, Hostel 2 and the Saw series featured ¡°very explicit and up-close violence that is administered on the victims in lengthy sessions.¡±
- 12. ? While approaching the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 the horror film industry as well as other movie industries were trying to figure out how they were going to tackle their next movie and what they were going to be able to do and not do. ? The movies tried to take a twist on the event such as aliens attacking the towers, using the event as a background to another plot, or people who were dealing with the after math of the event.
- 13. The rest¡ Globalization, Climate Change, and Changing Demographics: Did it affect the Horror Film Industry? ? Globalization is still to this day a struggle to me because I can¡¯t fully say I understand it.. As far as the information I found and thought about was that globalization did have it¡¯s affect on the horror film industry. ? All over the world where the movie industry is free to do what they want, the themes were very similar. Different places were taking note to what successful movies all over were like and then they tried to use those movies as examples. ? As well as, the horror film industry tends to really keep certain scary themes with their partner of culture that the story rises from or was created from.
- 14. Examples of global styled movies that root from where the scary story comes from
- 15. Climate Change¡ It¡¯s real. ? Disregarding people¡¯s own personal beliefs on whether or not they believe in climate change or not, the horror film industry is going with it and running. ? Horror movies are maximizing off of natural critical events and that is what makes them so scary to people. Predicting the end of the world due to the lack of concern from people is a reality for many people and the movies are bringing that nightmare to life.
- 16. Changing Demographics¡ do they matter? ? Most of the results for this search came to a stop. There were no obvious connections that I was able to find that were between the horror film industry and changing demographics. ? None the less, I thought to myself what affect, if any at all, could demographics have on the horror film industry?
- 17. Target Market is Key! ? In order for any type of industry to succeed and be successful they must seem appealing to the target market. ? Depending on what kind of movie is in the works, the producers need to be sure that it adheres to the interests of those who are the target market.
- 18. Is the Horror Film Industry using these negatives as a positive? ? If the Horror Film Industry uses their resources correctly, they can maximize their success by playing off of things that really scare people; terrorism, globalization, climate change, changing demographics.. ? A huge red flag is how careful ¡°they¡± must be when creating their new movies. If using a real life example or something close to, such as 9/11, things can get pretty sticky. People may not appreciate such a tragedy being made for entertainment. ? Then again, this could be a healing mechanism for folks. Some people may not even connect such real events to the movie because, it is just movie.
- 19. What is going to happen to the Horror Film Industry? ? For starters, hopefully it continues to grow and be successful. I love horror movies. ? I don¡¯t think the industry will be an easy one to be taken down because we are human, and humans are twisted. We need to see scary, awful, gorey things to keep our inner monsters entertained so we are able to carry on with our day to day normal happy lives. ? I am excited to see where this industry decides to go. There will always be natural events that can be used for movies, but we can¡¯t forget the classics. I love the classics.
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