Western:
The main theme of current western horror film is vampires and monsters. The delegate of them is Hollywood, in the
recent 50years, the western horror film becomes clearer and more targeted. "Universal Studios almost
single-handedly is responsible for the continuing popularity of Frankenstein
movies, vampire movies, mummy movies and werewolf movies. This was a period
when many studios were just beginning to define themselves by the genres they
specialized in. Just as Warner Brothers was claiming the gangster genre as
their own, Universal laid almost exclusive claim to horror films with a series
of iconic movies made in the first few years of the talkie era:
"Frankenstein," "Dracula," "The Mummy" and
"The Wolf Man." (http://www.ehow.com/about_5068412_history-horror-movies.html#ixzz2CcTBtbcr)
Eastern: Spirit and ghost is
the main style of the Eastern horror film. The
fear of spirits is often the precursor to people recognizing their fear of
God (http://www.thefish.com/movies/features/1293645/Spooky-Ideas%3A--The-Eastern-Horror-Invasion-in-Film/)
The
two theories which show above are also appears in a Chinese website which talks
the fully details about the techniques
of expression of horror films from
Eastern and Western areas.
(The different cultures and techniques of
Eastern and Western horror films, http://bbs.gxsd.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=105330 )
Last week, the new season of the horror series Walking Dead hit TV
screens in the US. Two Chinese friends had independently mentioned that they
were looking forward to the release, which surprised me as I'd never heard of
it and didn't think that Western horror films or television series traveled
well outside of Europe and America.
Depends of the difference of the culture from Eastern
and Western areas, the personality of human beings between these two areas are absolutely
different and this effect reflected by the horror films directly.
(Comparing with
Western and Eastern horror film http://wenku.baidu.com/view/e3cc2e19b7360b4c2e3f6445.html)
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