“You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.” ShouldLooksActionFilmAbuseVictimAction Films Author:Maggie Q
“Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.” MenYearsMadeSelfWholeRunningFilmGuyCitiesBrotherVictimShootingSatChasingBricksDrawersBack In TimeShort FilmsFuture Self Author:Rian Johnson
“I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.” HardWantedFilmYoungPurposeWalksClearWalkingDirectorsSkillsTheaterVictimSticksTortureHard TimesKillersBrutalYoung WomenSpineCreeksCredentialsTrackingMutilation Author:Roger Ebert
“Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human ground over which monster and expert, threat and defender, disordering and ordering impulses can battle it out. Second-class citizens of the genre, they are narratively indispensable because physically entirely disposable. We are only really involved with them in the momentary tension of their capture or demise.” WorldHumansWarFilmClassCitizensInvolvedBattleHollywoodVictimThreatMonstersImpulseGenreWar Of The WorldsExpertsTensionCapturePanicIndispensableInvasionDefendersMomentaryDemiseDisposableSecond Class Citizens Author:Andrew Tudor
“Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.” HumansWellsReasonFilmSleepSourceHorrorMajorsResearchHollywoodScientistVictimMadAttractionMonstersImpulseDisorderVisionariesPursesMadmenPsychosisOverpoweringHuman PsycheHomicidalMad Scientist Author:Andrew Tudor
“I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears...” DonePlayWould BeFilmNiceTearsVictimFakeBeing Nice Author:Rachel Hurd-Wood
“The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like -- in some way at least -- to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive.” WayMayMadeFactsSeemsMightEarthFilmTurnsCasesGreaterCreaturesEmptyIntelligentVictimThreatMonstersWanderVampireGenreAttractiveDreadRuinedDesirableZombiePlagueWerewolfInfectionMindlessGhoulsRevulsion Author:Kim Paffenroth