Terrifying Nudity: the Naked Truth of Horror Film

Attitudes towards the naked body vary from culture to culture. Even within one culture, nakedness often symbolises very different and sometimes arbitrarily contradictory things. It can be associated with eroticism, sanctity, aggression, a certain type of (from savagery elitism), etc. Focusing on specific cinematic examples, author examines symbolism male female bodies in horror films. The concludes that while nudity may serve attract viewers cinema, it does not necessarily equate sexuality. is frightening its vulnerability, but also shows how little we know about our own bodies. In tortured, objectified, manipulated or even sacrificed maintain social order nature's fertility. Female films linked fears sexuality Often, encounter turns out fatal for characters, leading their corporal transformation loss identity. any case, something norm, marginal destabilizing so scares us.