EDEN LAKE
How are jenny and steve (the main couple) represented?
How is this contrasted with the representation of the other
characters?
How important is the issue of social class?
How are young people represented?
- As a good looking American
classic couple. Going on holiday to get away. Young.
- Contrasted by using
juxtaposition…. Young people (wouldn’t expect it)
- ‘thugs’
- He didn’t expect it, and
took the miccy at first.
- (2008) director James
Watkins.
- 4 stars
- ‘one of the most
provocative and terrifying thrillers of the year.’
- TENSION
THEORY
Film theorist robin wood argues that the basic formula of
the horror film is:
‘normality is threatened by the monster’
‘I use normality here…to mean simply conformity to the
dominant social norms’
‘the definition of normality in horror films is in general
boringly consistent: the heterosexual monogamous couple, the family, and the
social institutions (police, church, armed forces) that protect them’
‘The monster is of ocurse much more protean, changing from
period to period as society’s basic fears clothe themselves in fashionable or
immediately accessible garments’
Horror and representations of Youth
Youth – being portrayed as bad.
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