Out of the shadows of "The Exorcist" and "sex" in horror movies

It is said that since the little girl in "The Exorcist" spit the green liquid on the priest's body, it opened the first American horror film. Obviously, the American version of The Ring is even more responsible for the innovation of American horror movies. Horror movies are no longer about blood plasma, ketchup, various organs (Peter Jackson’s "Big Dead" is a model), and any overly colorful colors (such as vomit). Therefore, we can feel the profound influence of "The Exorcist" and "Midnight Spirit" on "American Tales." For example, when the little girl at the beginning of the story ran into the room, the female ghost in pajamas like Sadako appeared; and Betty was tossed by the evil spirit on the bed, on the ground, and mid-air. Isn't it too similar to an exorcist?

However, you don’t have to frown at all to condemn the screenwriter. The director’s lack of innovation. As long as you watch slowly, you can understand why the same evil spirits are also tossed by the evil spirits, but "American Strange Tale" has better reasons. That is the director is suggesting that Betty is being sexually assaulted. Similarly, let's recall "The Exorcist" again. The devil entered the little girl's body, and the shameless thing he liked most was to let the girl stab her with a knife.

I think that apart from the cheap "horror films" of erotic nature, the allusions to sex will stop there. Sex will be the theme of horror films, but it will not be the way of expression. In many horror films, we can see that the film always focuses on the persecution of women, in addition to mental torture (now the selling point of horror films), it is also physical torture. You can totally say, yes, compared with men, women are more easily intimidated, which makes the film more attractive. However, you have forgotten that this kind of gender bias in horror films is directly related to women's more vulnerable to sexual assault. As a result, "American Strange Story" came to the surface with "the only official recognition of unjust homicide", that is, the depression and revenge after sexual persecution caused this evil spirit to kill. And the boring demon in "The Exorcist" enjoys the pleasure of self-mutilation by a little girl.

What an evil world. Regardless of whether you are a theist or not, religion comes from the worship of nature, then the fear of ghosts like gods is from the natural world. Since then, we can see from horror movies, at least, now In such an unnatural world, what is weak and what is strong!

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