A Narrative Perspective On Horror Movies

In recent years, through internet, horror movies from Europe, America,Japan and South Korea pour into China, at the same time gain a batch of audiences who are enthusiastic about scary scenes and anxieties brought by horror movies. This rising phenomenon has attracted attention from the theoretical circle. The research conducted by Chinese academic society on horror movies is basically at its preliminary stage; meanwhile,research specifically aiming at narrative perspective of horror movies is very few.This essay studies horror movies from their narrative perspectives,meticulously describes the presentation of their narrative perspectives' visual focalization and cognitive focalization as well as the narrator's rhetorical intents reflected in narrative perspectives. At last, the essay discusses narrative perspectives' appeal to audiences of horror movies.The first part of this essay is introduction, which mainly sorts out typical viewpoints of theorists on movie's narrative perspectives, and analyzes research status of current scary movies' narrative perspectives.After a series of sorting out, this essay holds the point that research on horror movie's narrative perspective is extremely indispensible.The second part is the main body. The reason behind horror movie's unique narrative perspective is closely related to narrator ' s manipulation, through which the peeping intention of narrator is reflected. Under narrator's manipulation, the visual focalization of horror movie is featured with delayed time and prominent space out of movie.The cognitive focalization formed on the basis of this kind of vision focusing also possesses the character of using the awareness difference between audiences and movie characters to create a scary atmosphere. The characters of visual focalization and cognitive focalization prompt audiences to generate a scary view experience that integrate illusion and sense of reality together.This essay analyzes horror movies from narrative perspective, which would be helpful to understand audiences' acceptance of horror movies.Watching horror movies moderately is conducive to relieving tensions,however, being addicted to movies that keep audiences out of difficulties in reality goes against to the physical and mental development of individuals. Thus we should dialectically treat this issue.