I think of all aspects of horror. I think the dream/nightmare theme is one of my favorites, and the one I find most scary. I think one of the main responses for this is it is a good excuse to add surreal elements into the film. The surrealist art movement is one of my favorite styles of art, and I think its style lends itself perfectly to horror film. I think this is because surrealism is about this juxtaposition between objects and ideas that usually wouldn't go together. Because we're not dealing with stuff that makes no sense it becomes hard to ground and orientate ourselves. When we see these contradictions we don't know which one is the base, and which one belongs. We lose the ability to fall back on what's the logical or rational thing to do. We're left confused and having to deal with what happens as it happens. We lose the ability to feel like we could run away.
The audition is probably the scariest movie we’ve seen so far in my opinion. Which is impressive because there's only one part of the movie that I would say was scary, and that's the nightmare sequence after he's paralyzed. I think the fear comes from how hard it is to tell what's going on. It really taps into the feeling of being uncanny. We can tell for the most part what is going on, but everything, even down to the timeline, is off just enough to be unsettling. I think another aspect that adds to how uncanny the film is the fact it's never too clear if Asami is human or something else. She acts pretty human for the most part, but there is just enough unsettling activation and characteristics that makes you wonder. I love how long it took the movie to get to the scary part. It really took its time building up to it, so there was good tension when everything went south.
I really enjoyed A Nightmare on Elm Street. I think Freddy krueger Is a very strong villain. I think part of that is the comedic element to his charter. While not all of his jokes land him joking around show a lot of confidence from him.He’s viewing this as a game and not something that needs to be taken seriously by him. This on top of the powers he has really shows that he is in control of the situation and really puts our teen protagonist in a helpless situation. Freddy's comedic side is also flipped nicely on its head when he becomes the butt of the joke once he’s pulled into the real world and is subject to Nacys loony tune style booby traps. The ending was a little wacky, and confusing. I looked into it and apparently it's due to a disagreement between the producer and director. The producer wanted to end on a scare, but the Enter director here wanted a happy ending were everyone lived. Obviously the producer won out. To try and make sense of the ending I viewed its as the mom’s nightmare as Freddy attacks her.