Most of the movie or use the models of some objects as metaphors for the idea that the filmmakers tried to convey. In horror films, many of these objects are used to improve mood, to identify character traits to emphasize themes and concepts (eg, good and bad), and suspicious events. Objects can add powerful symbols, the depth and meaning to be a story.
Horror films try to capture our worst nightmares. As Carl Jung observed in his book The Man and His Symbols (1979): "Every day itemsor ideas can have a potent psychological meaning in a dream that we dreamed of seriously disturbed awake despite nothing worse than a locked room or a train lost "and" In general, the unconscious reveals in any case we look in dreams, in which it appears, not as a rational thought, but as a symbolic image. "
Some of the most symbolic objects found in horror:
1 Religious Symbols - religion is very common in horror, with themesLife and death, spirituality, man, to play God, to fight the inner and outer demons, good and evil, and so on. Objects of worship, Christians, occult, satanic, voodoo, or any other kind of faith in something bigger than humanity. In The Skeleton Key (2005), a hospice worker Caroline Ellis is skeptical and not believe in the supernatural, although hoodoo products and legends of their environment in the swampy, primitive farm, where you take care of an older man, Ben. When Benbelieves in hoodoo magic, Caroline begins to piece together more and more about the lynching of a pair of slaves, made hoodoo in the attic, and shift their belief system. She is aware of juju - books of magic and spells recorded, discovered in the attic - and begins to perform rituals. Eventually she makes her fear with faith and this is their undoing, as to take the slaves who have to live in the bodies of others, his body is necessary. He left thesymbolic objects overwhelm reasoning.
2 Symbols of death - death is, of course, ubiquitous in horror and there are many representative objects, such as coffins, tombstones, skeletons, angels of death, and so on. Psycho (1960), are representatives of taxidermy birds dead mother in the house and schizophrenic Bates' attempts to keep his life after death. To my horror, there can be no confusion between life and death, ghosts, zombies, and the supernatural, so that objectscan help to symbolize that which side. By the beginning of Jacob's Ladder (1990), Jacob receives an underground tunnel, which symbolizes life and death, and 'caught caught. The noise of the trains, the little missing on the track, with distorted faces, as it is full of lost souls. As has always suffered from hallucinations and his life spirals out of control, is the only one who finds solace with his chiropractor Louis, which has spread like a cherub. Later we found out that he isactually an angel. Louis Jacob tells the truth about his situation, if Jacob does not understand the true meaning at the time. The fire that lights AOK Jacob (Jacob believes that the army was the hallucination of experiments) must be burned and its attachments are a thing of life. Fire symbolically repeated many times in the film, and Jacob is literally through them before they finally consumed by the hellish purgatory.
3 Colors - Many films use color toTopics and symbolize the forces of good and evil. Red is often associated with evil, blood, lust and violence in a relationship, like the Red Queen in Resident Evil (2002). Black is also naturally associated with evil, while light, neutral colors and earth tones with the good or the general population are connected.
4 - The light can be many things, such as hope, transition, evacuation, and also symbolize the death (for example Poltergeist "Do not go into the light"!) Sunlight usually a feeling of comfort, sothe inconsistency of sunlight and terror can be particularly annoying, as in the famous graveyard scene Night of the Living Dead (1968). Candles, lanterns and flashlights are often sources of light in horror, as this light can only be cast so far, while the surrounding darkness is full of shadows. In this opening scene of Hellraiser (1987), the bulbs hanging in the torture chamber immediately sets the tone.
INT. Torture Chamber NIGHT
The bare light bulbs in the room that we entered,Swing hard, confusing us. There are chains - dozens of them - will disappear with the darkness of the ceiling, everyone is swinging back and forth. Some end to hooks, with pieces of skin and tendon compliance, but some are serrated, others simply dripping with blood.
They are hunted in the claustrophobic horror film The Descent UK (2005), a group of friends on a caving expedition by inhuman creatures. The women are in virtual darkness and light is trapped underground his only friend, as theThe creatures are blind. Light and dark are often themed to represent good and evil, so that the horrors of the night and hope for a new beginning, if you've used it to survive.
5 Saw a majority of horror films with the use of weapons, from machine guns - weapons. The weapons are phallic symbolism, male power and the woman, the villain outsmarts proposes essentially castrated. Leatherface Texas Chainsaw Massacre gun in his (1974) is the ultimate phallicSymbol of power rages. The weapons are the most symbolically powerful when it reflects character, Leatherface lives and for this reason.
6 Fabric - Fabric comes in many forms of terror, such as curtains, carpets and furniture covered with dust. Since the material can cover up, gets stronger as exciting as it suggests the presence of something behind. The protagonist can hide behind stuff, but obviously not protected from it. In The Others (2001), the mother hears voices inHouse and enters a room where all the stored items are covered with dust. With regard to strengthen the voices, begins to pull down the sheets to try to reveal the source. This film is the stuff as a metaphor for refusing to cover up the truth of the dark mother used to accept, that killed their children. The curtains are always closed in the house also emphasize this. After the mother takes the truth, there is no need to live in tents and can light.
7 Keys / Locks - Keysand palaces symbolize secrets, confinement, and the hidden objects or places. In The Skeleton Key Caroline is trying to solve their Bens was paralyzed patients. The skeleton of his key works in any room in the house except one in the attic. He manages to enter the room and discovered a series of disturbing secrets that will lead to their own demise. In the other, the mother has to constantly lock and unlock the doors, the light from reaching their children, who have a rare disease and will die if preventedexposed to sunlight. In this film, put the keys and locks of their limited thinking, and their physical confinement in purgatory. Only when she accepts the truth is that all doors can be unlocked, can fall because the curtains.
8 Doors and windows - doors and windows (or portal) have many symbolic meanings. Often help symbolize characterization. With windows, a person has a limited perspective as a spectator and is not part of the outside world. The people searchThrough the window, or the fear of the outside world can not physically able to join. In the other, the mother is often the window and looked in his house because his children prisoners, and a dense fog pervasive. Eventually, they and their children through the window onto a world that no longer belong. On the other hand, the doors can be symbolic occasion. With horror, but the windows and doors are usually a means of capture or escape. They are also veryused to build the suspense ... is something lurking behind the door slightly open window or out of the dark? On the night of the living dead, doors and windows are dangerous, that can penetrate the zombies, despite efforts to block it. Some of the most frightening scenes are zombies when the hands reach through the spaces between the boards. Windows can also embody a haunted house, such as eyes, as always brilliant, quarter-circle windows in Amityville Horror.
9Labyrinths / Mazes - Mazes and labyrinths are often in terror seemed to increase the players lack of control. The maze in The Shining, the complex maze of underground hive in Resident Evil, offer many possibilities for unexpected surprises around the corner, hatches, round action, and a sense of improbability for the flight.
10 Dolls - Dolls often appeared in horror stories. , The incongruity of a toy for children and the risk is irritating, asDolls are usually happiness, innocence and care. But their distorted human qualities, such as large heads, wide-eyed, exaggerated, or features, can be particularly frightening. Puppet shows can be subtle, like the puppet in the other. The puppet string represents a character that has the control of its movements or destiny as the mother, although their efforts. There is also a scary moment where it joins the "other side" and its definitions Permanentthe reality is completely safe. Dolls can also take a leading role as the evil Chucky series. The same effect was unnerving used with clowns, even if they have already abused it lost much of their effect. Dolls, on the other hand, in many forms, from voodoo to Barbie dolls and antique and contemporary hinges, offer great opportunities for symbolic use. A doll, the symbolism, which can be expressed as a playground or other, couldinclude sexuality, lack of control, death, longing, regret, family, aging, and more.
11 Masks - Phantom of the Opera slasher classic The masks are often used to hide the bad. The masks are motionless, except for eyes that peer through them, making them as the faces Doll. In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Leatherface wears three different masks (made of human skin) that reflect his mood or victims. And who can ever forget Jason hockey mask or white faceMichael Myers? Occasionally, the villain behind the mask of being a woman. The Japanese film, carved: The crack-mouth Woman (2007), is an urban legend that a suburb of the city by the spirit of a woman whose beautiful face had been horribly disfigured says terrified. Would the streets wearing a long coat and surgical mask. He would approach her young victims and the removal of the mask, she wonders if she was pretty. Your answer would inevitably violentDecline.
12 Mirrors - mirrors or mirror-like reflections in glass or water effects, many symbolic meanings, but usually represent the duality of the different characters. Have obvious connotations of the broken mirror shattered lives and personalities. Mirrors can also be voyeuristic, vanity and sexual problems - we show our body and beautify our faces in front of them in private. Expression levels may also dangers. The following scene from Halloween: H20 (1998) is agood example of how effective this tactic can be like a sudden fear:
Linda steals the palm above the mirror fogged up and wipes the steam ... On the mirror. In his reflection, we see Molly and Linda ... Then - The shape is derived from the cloud of steam behind it!
The mirror is the subject of numerous films, including Alexandre Aja film was the mirror 2008, which is based on the 2003 Korean film Into the Mirror. In these films, the mirror is a gateway between good and evil, whichSymbolism like doors and windows.
13 Rope - Rope has many symbolic meanings, from bondage, flogging and death (the noose), a means of escape or survival. With horror, strings are usually used as a form of slavery. This symbolism has been used since the early days of cinema, and had a symbolic meaning. At the opening of James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), one of the first images is a pair of hands pulling on a rope, hands, lower a coffin from grave robbers Dr.Frankenstein and his assistant to pull back in front of a statue of the Grim Reaper. Later in the opening sequence, a cut down is condemned to death by a rope from the gallows, but disappointed that it needs another brain, as his severed neck.
Symbolism can be very powerful and is an important tool for improving the character and charm. Everyday objects can be used to change the mood to be effective. In addition, a paper doll can suggestively fear when in the right hands!
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