Example Essays Home

FAQ

Acceptable Use Policy

Tech Support

LOG IN!

Click HERE for Instant Access

This is a free preview of the paper.

Join Now
Log In

Cat People and Wolf Man

“Horror films are designed to frighten and to invoke our hidden fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience”(Dirks 787). Even though horror movies are meant to scare people, they continue to see these movies. Horror movies focus on the part of our lives that are dark, and the strange and alarming events that take place in them. Although movies in the beginning of the horror genre are completely different both in style and story, they still have that sense of unawareness, and utter eeriness. Both The Cat People and The Wolf Man are two examples of movies in the beginning of the horror genre. Ultimately, like many other horror films, they have a villain that is viewed as evil, a love interest, conflicting personalities within themselves, a feeling of pity for them, and “a return to normalcy and victory over the monstrous” (Dirks 788). We can relate to many of these movies because we all have problems in our lives, whether it be within ourselves, our love interests, or our family.

“The werewolf, a good man who turns periodically into a creature of violence, cannot prevent himself from killing when, under the influe

to his love interest, Gwen. Larry decided to take Gwen out on a date, but because she did not know him very well, she decided to bring along her friend Jenny. While out, Jenny gets attacked by, what we later find out to be, a werewolf. When Larry tried to help her, he was bitten by the werewolf, and the curse was then passed on to him. Larry has dueling personalities throughout the whole movie. He was two completely different people who had no control over the primal instincts of the wolf inside him These instincts came out at night and made him become evil and to kill.