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Most of the films or patterns of usage of some objects as metaphors for a concept that attempts to transmit the director. In horror movies, as many objects are used to improve mood, identify character traits to emphasize themes and concepts (eg, good versus evil, for example) and imaginary events. Objects can be powerful symbols, the depth and add a sense of history.
Horror films try to capture our worst nightmares. When Carl G. Jung observed in his book The Man and His Symbols (1979): "Every dayObjects or ideas can be so powerful psychological meaning in a dream that has taken increasingly seriously disturbed, even if the application is nothing worse than a locked room or a train lost "and" dreamed of cases generally seek knowledge revealed in dreams, if not, it seems that rational thinking, but as a symbolic image. "
Some of the most symbolic objects in horror include:
1. Religious symbols - religion is very common in horror,Matters of life and death, spirituality, the man plays God, man fight the inner and outer demons, good against evil, and so on. Christian religious artifacts, occult, satanic voodoo, or any other human belief in something greater. In The Skeleton Key (2005), the hospice worker Caroline Ellis, a skeptic and do not believe in the supernatural, although legends Hoodoo terms and their environment in a family home swampy area, primitive, where people care SeniorsHusband, Ben. Ben believes in the magic begins when Caroline Hoodoo and share more about the lynching of a pair of slave Hoodoo done in the attic, and change their belief system. Learn Jujus - the magic of books and records of spells found in the attic - and begins to perform rituals. In the end, be afraid of their faith, and it is their downfall, as he slaves who lived in the bodies of others, your body is required.symbolic objects overpowered his reasoning.
2. Symbols of death - death is, of course, all the horror and there are countless objects agent, such as coffins, tombstones, skeletons, angels of death, and so on. In Psycho (1960), the representative bird taxidermy dead mother in the house and Bates schizophrenic is to preserve his life after death. With horror, there may be confusion between life and death, as ghosts, zombies and supernaturalObjects can therefore help to symbolize the school. Towards the beginning of Jacob's Ladder (1990), Jacob receives an underground tunnel, which symbolizes life and death is trapped trapped. The train, narrowly missing the track is filled with faces disfigured, lost souls like him. More and more, and suffer from hallucinations and puts his life out of control, is the only comfort is your chiropractor Louis, which he described as an overgrown cherub. Laterdiscover what is truly an angel. Luis Jacob is telling the truth about their situation, but Jacob did not understand its true meaning may be the time. The fire, which ignited in an army headquarters, Jacob (Jacob was the hallucination of experiments by the army) is the need to burn its Annexes and the memories of life. Fire symbolically repeated several times in the film, and finally Jacob is literally consumed the first hellish purgatory.
3. Colors - LotsThe film with color themes to symbolize evil and the forces of good and. Red is often the case) that the evil, blood, lust and violence, as the Red Queen in Resident Evil (2002. Black is also associated with the light at the same time, neutral colors and earth tones, population generally associated with good or bad.
4. Light - the light can symbolize many things such as hope, is to escape, and even death (for example, Poltergeist "Do not enter theLight! ") The sunlight is usually a feeling of comfort, so that the inconsistency in the sunlight and the horror can be particularly irritating, as in the famous graveyard scene of Night of the Living Dead (1968). Velas lamps and lanterns are often source of light in horror when that light in the measure, as the shadows around them evolves. In this scene at the beginning of Hellraiser (1987), light bulbs hung in the torture room sets the tone immediately.
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Naked light bulbs in the room that we entered thud off the road. There are channels - dozens of them - will disappear with the darkness of the ceiling, all swaying back and forth. Some end up on hooks, with pieces of skin and tendons, some are illegal, others simply drop of blood.
are hunted in the British horror film The Descent claustrophobic (2005), a group of friends for a caving expedition by inhuman creatures. Women are trapped in the virtual worlddark background and light is your only friend that the creatures are blind. The dark and light dark thematically often used to represent good and evil, so that the horrors of the night and hope for a new one if you managed to survive.
5. saws for more horror films through the use of weapons, machine guns - weapons. The weapons are phallic symbols, male power and the woman who foiled the wicked shots basically neutered. Weapons LeatherfaceThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) is the ultimate phallic symbol of fierce power. The weapons are the most symbolically powerful when it reflects the character of Leatherface life and follow the same pattern.
6. Shoes - takes many forms of terrorism, such as curtains, carpets, furniture and floor dust. Since the material can cover reinforces interesting because it suggests the presence of something behind him. The player can hide behind things, but of course notprotected from it. In the other (2001), the mother hears voices in the house and into a room where all the items stored are covered with cloth to dust. In return, however, begins to be pulled down the sheets to try to reveal the source. In this sense the film is a metaphor for the cover of darkness truth is that the mother refuses to accept that their children are killed. The curtains are always closed in the house even stress. After the mother accepts the truth, it is not necessaryand tends to live in the light.
7. Keys / Locks - Keys and locks symbolize secrets, childbirth and the hidden objects or places. In The Skeleton Key, Caroline is the treatment of their patients to resolve Ben paralyzed condition. The master key works in any room in the house except one in the attic. E 'managed to enter the room and discovered a series of disturbing secrets that lead to their demise. In the other, the mother is always close and open the door to prevent lightreach their children with a rare disease and die when exposed to sunlight. In this film are the keys and locks of his thinking is limited and his physical isolation in purgatory. Only if you accept the truth, all the doors are left open, as the curtains come down.
8. Doors and windows - doors and windows (or portal) have many symbolic meanings. Often, aid to symbolize the characterization. With the windows, a person has a limited perspective isas a spectator, not part of the outside world. The person who looks out the window can not be afraid of the outside world or physically able to take part. In others is often the mother through the window and looked out, trapped in their homes because their children and a thick acrid smoke. Ultimately, they and their children through the window and looked toward a world that no longer belong. On the other hand, when the doors are symbolic. In horror, however, doors and windowsoften a means of entrapment and escape. They are also widely used to create tension ... there is something behind the door slightly open or hidden behind the window in the dark? Night of the Living Dead, zombies windows and doors can leak dangerous, despite efforts to obstruct. Some scenes are incredible, if the zombie hands reaching through the spaces between the tables. Windows can embody a haunted house, like the eyes, asalways brilliant, quarter-circle windows in Amityville Horror.
9. Labyrinths / Mazes - Mazes and labyrinths have appeared frequently in horror actors exacerbate the lack of control. In the maze in The Shining, the complex maze of underground Hive Resident Evil, which offer many opportunities for unexpected surprises around the angle of hatches, round, and a sense of improbability for the flight.
10. Dolls - Dolls often appeared in the horrorTell stories. , The inconsistency of the toy and the risk is irritating, as has happened in the general innocence of dolls and care. But his distorted human qualities, such as department heads, eyes and exaggerated features, which can be particularly frightening. wrist symptoms may be subtle, such as Puppetry of the others. The puppet on a string is a number that does not control his movements or fate, as her mother, despite her efforts. There is also aTime, which combines the fear of "other" and its definitions of reality are standing completely destroyed. Dolls can also take a leading role as the evil Chucky series. The same effect has been used hard on the clowns, so overused that it loses most of its effects. Dolls, on the contrary, in many ways, voodoo dolls and old Barbie battered, with the contemporary, which offer significant opportunities for symbolic use. ADoll symbolism that can be expressed as a playground or other, could also sexuality, lack of control, death, nostalgia, regret, family, aging and more.
11. Masks - Phantom of the Opera masks are classic slasher most often used to mask bad masks. The wrist Rostro have no movement, except in the eyes makes them look like the '. In Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Leatherface with three different masks (manSkin) that match your mood or the victims. And who can forget Jason's hockey mask or white face of Michael Myers? At times, the bad boy of being behind the mask of a woman. The Japanese film, carved: The woman with the slit of the mouth (2007), is based on an urban legend, a neighborhood that was the spirit of a woman whose beautiful face was horribly disfigured in the application of terror. It is in the streets with a long coat and surgical mask. He approached his young victims and removal ofMask asked if she was pretty. Your answer will inevitably lead to a violent death.
12. Mirror - mirror or a reflection in a mirror or water, many symbolic meanings, but generally represent the duality of different characters. broken mirrors seem to have a connotation of broken lives and personalities. Levels can also be voyeuristic and sexual themes vanity - we show our body and beautify the face with themprivate. Mirrors can reflect and threats. The next scene of Halloween: H20 (1998) is a good example of the effectiveness of this may come as a sudden panic:
Linda steals the palm of your hand on the tarnished mirror, wiped the steam ... In the mirror. In his reflection, we see Molly and Linda ... then - the shape is derived from the cloud of steam behind it!
The level was the subject of many Korean films, including mirrors Alexandre Aja film of 2008 by the year 2003,Anime in the mirror. In these films is the mirror of a gateway between good and evil, its symbolism like gates, doors and windows.
13. - A string has many symbolic meanings of slavery, flogging and death (circular) to provide a means of escape or survival. With horror, the strings are used more often as a form of slavery. This symbolism has been used since the beginning of cinema, and has a symbolic meaning today. At the opening of James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), one of the first shotsis a pair of hands pulling on a rope, severed hand of a coffin from grave robbers of Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant to withdraw before a statue of the Grim Reaper. Later in the opening sequence, ordered to cut a rope with an arrow, but I am disappointed that the need for another brain, as his throat cut.
The symbolism can be very powerful and is an important tool for improving the scope and character. everyday objects can actually change the mood to be.In addition, a paper doll to be feared when striking with his right hand!
