Semantic Field - Eyes

 

Psychological Horror Movies Research

All horror movies have a villain, however those in psychological horrors are murderers and there is usually an element of mystery surrounding these characters. A semantic field associated with horror movie murderers are their eyes, because they show the most emotion. All these characters below have very intimidating and frightening expressions because of their eyes.

 

 

This is Hannibal Lecter from 'Silence of the lambs.'

Although he has to wear a mask which covers the majority of his face, because he is a cannibal, his eyes are still visible as it intimidates the viewer.

 

This is Norman Bates from 'Psyco', who had a fixation with mothers, therefor he kept his mothers body mummified and spoke to her. The fact that he looks like a normal man, the fact that he has a weird obsession suddenly makes his character a lot more sinister.

 

Finally, John Kramer or "Jigsaw" is the game maker from the Saw movie collection tortures people using different contraptions. Our movie 'baddie' also tries to torture our main character, therefore we may include a series of different traps in our movie.