Robert Scucci | publishing
Crushing heads started to become an issue of elevated horror, and I don’t know how many concepts can be explored before they become old hats. As seen in the movie, it quickly became a new jump scare Hereditary, Longlegs, recent, arms.
On the one hand, I understand. Watching someone bind their dome with a blunt object is an inner way to portray the thought-breaking on the screen, which is an easy way for the filmmaker to shock the audience’s core.
But like jumping fear, we start to desensitize them. Personally, I am fulfilled because the sound of gray matter and bone fragments triggers the same discomfort people pretend to feel when they hear the word “wet.”
Interestingly, wet and smashed heads are not mutually exclusive.
Literal destruction of thought
Self-striking head smas mess in elevated horror is a very specific purpose: to show the audience that the character has lost control of his abilities. This happened twice in 2018 Genetic.
The first example involves an almost 2-minute Peter Graham who starts to face each other on the table and screams in a philosophy class. Maybe he also had a percentage point chance to bring a message of “punishment” on the blackboard, or he was just hungry and protested in the only way he knew while waiting for the lunch bell. But by this point, the film has confirmed that the demon Pelmon is slowly taking over his existence.
Does the head need to be smashed, or will Peter’s mental state collapse in a less literal way? The most likely reason is to be established for the final segment of the film, when his mother, Annie, possesses it completely, and in one of the most shocking sequences in the film, the skull rests on the attic door.
Long legs and weapons
Similar to Peter Graham, Langus In the interrogation scene, the title character encounters the ultimate fate when he reveals that he works for the “man” downstairs and then smashes his face to the table until he sends out a fatal, self-deception blow. Dale Ferdinand Kobble has been a channel for Satan’s power since the 1970s and is likely to have escaped the mental torture that had been struggling decades ago.
I think Langus The interrogation room sequence is the film peak that smashes the head in elevated horror because it is so disturbing that I’m still talking about it. That is, until I see arms. Play with us in a similar way about the unknown, arms Saves mind for its third act. This time, not one person slams on the table, but two heads collide repeatedly on the kitchen floor until one of them stops screaming.
Popularity of crushing
If I had to be sure when the impact would be the preferred device, I’d see The Walking Dead Season 7 premieres, “That day will be something you won’t.” This is the plot where Negan kills Abraham and Glenn with his barbed wire. The horror is not entirely elevated, but its impact on the audience is huge.
One of the most watched episodes in the series is “The Day Will Come, Glenn’s Apocalypse remains one of the most polarizing moments in modern television horror movies. I’ve never seen an episode Walking zombiesbut I still hear the second airing of the chatter episode airing because of how frustrated it was with its fan base in 2016.
Glenn finally got his flower (somewhat)
It makes sense that the filmmaker wants to chase Glenn’s death. The entire sequence is frightening and puts itself in our collective consciousness, at a time a wet splat. The improvement of phobia thrives in these reactions. Crushing is a reliable method.
I can’t see it will disappear soon. Even if the effect is weakened every time, it does a great job, even if the effect is weakened. At some point, it will lose its advantage, but until then, Glenn, sorry, that’s all you remember.
