Terror In Eyes Without A Face, And Village Of The Damned
The prevalence of terror in the movies Psycho (1960), Eyes Without a Face (1960) and Village of The Damned (1995) is astonishing and quite scary. The methods used to achieve heightened tension and terror in these films is remarkable and includes various camera angles and tricks and audio to foreshadow. The primary reason these films are so terrifying to the viewer is that they can actually occur and are not about some fantasy or supernatural world.
The terror in these films plays on the emotional fears of the audience, either real or exaggerated. It would be remiss of me to comment on the terror in Psycho and not mention the music involved. The music that is played at the opening of Psycho is quite chilling and immediately has the viewer …show more content…
The stabbing is quite frantic and graphic and keeps the viewer feeling disgusted for the entire film. It can also make a female viewer in particular afraid and paranoid that whenever she goes to take a shower, she can become a victim.
Also the fear that what happened in Psycho can happen in real life is very real to the viewer, especially in regards to actually crossing the path of someone like Norman Bates who was very charming and unsuspecting is very scary. Norman was the average boy next door and gave no clues that he was unstable on first appearances. The film Eyes Without a Face is quite terrifying. This film easily depicts that evil is an everyday reality with the doctor just callously ripping off the face of random girls just to experiment on a face transplant for his daughter. This also makes the viewers, particularly females, anxious that if they are just minding their business or being friendly with someone they can be abducted and used to carry out crazy experiments and then disposed of when their usefulness is up. It also depicts evil as an everyday reality to the viewer by representing the doctor as a villain; doctors should be those who help to make us better not disfigure and kill us, and this is a scary thing to realize. Watching the doctor carve the face of the victims is very hard to watch, any viewer would cringe because it is obvious that this procedure is essentially
The terror in these films plays on the emotional fears of the audience, either real or exaggerated. It would be remiss of me to comment on the terror in Psycho and not mention the music involved. The music that is played at the opening of Psycho is quite chilling and immediately has the viewer …show more content…
The stabbing is quite frantic and graphic and keeps the viewer feeling disgusted for the entire film. It can also make a female viewer in particular afraid and paranoid that whenever she goes to take a shower, she can become a victim.
Also the fear that what happened in Psycho can happen in real life is very real to the viewer, especially in regards to actually crossing the path of someone like Norman Bates who was very charming and unsuspecting is very scary. Norman was the average boy next door and gave no clues that he was unstable on first appearances. The film Eyes Without a Face is quite terrifying. This film easily depicts that evil is an everyday reality with the doctor just callously ripping off the face of random girls just to experiment on a face transplant for his daughter. This also makes the viewers, particularly females, anxious that if they are just minding their business or being friendly with someone they can be abducted and used to carry out crazy experiments and then disposed of when their usefulness is up. It also depicts evil as an everyday reality to the viewer by representing the doctor as a villain; doctors should be those who help to make us better not disfigure and kill us, and this is a scary thing to realize. Watching the doctor carve the face of the victims is very hard to watch, any viewer would cringe because it is obvious that this procedure is essentially