Guide to Horror Film In Contemporary America Blog

Hello. Welcome to our blog on Contemporary American Horror films. We hope you enjoy are exploration into Horror of the last decade as we give special focus to Saw and Paranormal Activity. This guide will show which order we would like you to read our blog in. Each post can be found on the side bar of the blog, under the month they were posted. Please feel free to make comments on a blog prior to our discussion as any thoughts you have may help us reframe our thinking and questions so that we can have more lively and fruitful discussion. Here is our guide and thank you for visiting our blog:

1. Outline for Web Blog

2. Questions we want to explore

3. Purpose of Choice of films

4. What is Horror to you?

5. Horror as a genre

-History of Horror

- History of Meaning

- Quotes regarding Horror genre

- Degredation of women in the genre

- Book on Horror Trends

- Power dynamics in Slasher films

- "Shockumentaries"

- What we like about Horror

6. Horror sources and analysis

Saw

-Saw Trailer

- Saw (2004): the first "Torture Porn" Movie

- Analysis of clips from Saw (2004)

-Eli Roth Interview with Fox News 2006

- Saw (2004) marketing

Paranormal Activity

-Paranormal Activity: Grassroots scaring

- Sherry Lansing Theatre Reactions

- Alternate ending

- Case study of Paranormal Activity

7. Reviews, Response and box office analysis

Saw

- Rotten tomatoes

- Roger Ebert review

- Film Journal International

- Time

- Box Office and Awards

Paranormal activity

- Rotten Tomatoes

- Roger Ebert

- Film Journal International

- Film Threat

- Bright Lights

- Another review relevant

- Time

- Box Office and Awards

- Budget

7. Blog References and Sources