2. Horror films supposedly harness societies true fears
and expand on them creating them into dramatic and
mostly unrealistic scenarios. Although they are hard to
believe they still extenuate our films after watching a
film.

3. This fear of technology is channelled through such films as ‘Alien’(1979) where Ripley
(Sigourney Weaver ) battles ‘Mother’ the ships computer system which controls
everything. This was made at a period of time where technology was rapidly expanding
and more people where getting computers. ‘Alien’ used this and created this idea that
computer may one day take over from people so we as a society should be weary.
Another pinnacle film creating societies fear of technology was ‘Ringu’ (1998) and the
use of televisions; (spoiler) this vision of someone coming out from your television set
which took such horror fans by storm that they remade the film in Hollywood and other
countries.
In ‘Eden Lake’ a key prop was the mobile which filmed the horrific death of Steven
(Michael Fassbender) and Adam (James Ghandi). This film came out in 2008 which was a
couple of years after the Happy Slapping craze that originated in the UK. The premise of
this was where by people would film someone being slapping or beat up this. This lead to
a wave of crime over the UK and then lead to other countries. A large proportion of this
abusive fad was started and caused by adolescents.

4. This correlation between horror and technology goes way back to the 50’s which comes through in such
classics as ‘The Fly’ which was released 1956 which was around the era when science was further
making break through in stem cell research during 1960. This concept of a Fusion Machine merging
man and a fly creating this alien like being, conveyed the underlying fear of society view on stem cell
research being viewed as unnatural and ungodly.
Then we flash forward to the 21st century with films like ‘Paranormal Activity’. Where by the horror is
relayed through CCTV footage of a ghost / paranormal entity inhabiting a home which is watched by the
owners. A key theme and modern day fear I understand with is film is this idea that society today no
longer feel safe in their own home. Also this idea that people can fully live their lives in private as there
is people constantly watching and listening in, there is a constant invasion of privacy not only by the
government, but the ease at which a person can be stalked. A key way in which this has popped up
recently in the media is with the recent law suits taken out by celebrities against newspapers and celeb
magazine phone tapping celebrities .
Finally the most obscure and horrific of all is ‘The Human Centipede’ which challenges the view on the
advances in medical technology. The film tells the story of a mad German scientist attempting to make
a human centipede by kidnapping three strangers and operating on them. With the 21st century has
come the increase with societies obsession with sugary especially plastic sugary. The obsession has
spread to such an extent that people can now buy home kits to perform there own enhancements. The
fear with medical technology is how far can science push it until what was once thought unacceptable
becomes acceptable.