Clashers In The 1950's Psycho
The term slasher refers to a subgenre of movies and a category of monster. These kinds of movies started becoming popular back in the 1950’s and the movie Psycho became one of the most commonly referred to for this genre of movies. This movie is most well-known for “the shower scene”, which accurately portrays the trend of victims as helpless, beautiful, and without much clothing. Even though the violence in this famous scene was well hidden, it is said that even today it has the chilling effect. There tends to be a pattern amongst all the most popular “psychos”. Many of their acts are sexually driven, but are commonly linked to other motives as well. Among those, identity factors such as gender, economic class, and race are common incentives
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I feel that articles like this one almost allow me to think outside the box more than long articles do. I was able to think about this topic and analyze it by my own free will and use the basic information that was given to me, to create opinions and ideas. I think the reasons why slashers can be considered monsters even though they are humans is because they do horrific things. They fall right into the monster category because they do inhumane things, which make their human characteristics almost less visible and note-worthy. As we had talked about earlier in the semester, sometimes it is easy to categorize monsters as anything or anyone who does things out of the ordinary. Anything uncommon or breaking the norms, appears to be strange, threatening, and unacceptable to us. I also think the appearances make the psycho slashers seem monstrous because their faces are hidden, which realistically hides their human identity. In my opinion, humans who commit terrible deeds seem more monstrous to me than monsters that do things that are “in their nature”. The thought of running into a psycho person terrifies me more than the idea of ever coming across a monster. A human monster is more realistic, because I am human and identify with people. I have never seen the kinds of monsters that are not human, so they are not as threatening to
I feel that articles like this one almost allow me to think outside the box more than long articles do. I was able to think about this topic and analyze it by my own free will and use the basic information that was given to me, to create opinions and ideas. I think the reasons why slashers can be considered monsters even though they are humans is because they do horrific things. They fall right into the monster category because they do inhumane things, which make their human characteristics almost less visible and note-worthy. As we had talked about earlier in the semester, sometimes it is easy to categorize monsters as anything or anyone who does things out of the ordinary. Anything uncommon or breaking the norms, appears to be strange, threatening, and unacceptable to us. I also think the appearances make the psycho slashers seem monstrous because their faces are hidden, which realistically hides their human identity. In my opinion, humans who commit terrible deeds seem more monstrous to me than monsters that do things that are “in their nature”. The thought of running into a psycho person terrifies me more than the idea of ever coming across a monster. A human monster is more realistic, because I am human and identify with people. I have never seen the kinds of monsters that are not human, so they are not as threatening to