A basic concept in American horror films after 1990

From the Fall and the emergence of the mankind till the present time evilphenomenon has come into being in various kinds and manners. Evil phenomenoncan be observed in such dualities as strong/weak, opressor/oppressed,master/slave, knowledge/human, technology/human, God/Devil, good/evil throughthe history.Covering every sphere of life, and reinterpreting it with its own narratingtechniques, cinema has not been indifferent to evil phenomenon that relatesclosely to human life. Since its beginning, the art of cinema has treated evilphenomenon in its own spesific orginality and deep concern through the use ofgenres formed cinema by itself, and its narrating techniques,In the essence of the cinema of horror there lies a tranformation from anormal situation to the one in which the images of death and catastrophe arecommanding. Since folklore and literature of horror gives back to the horror genre,the stories of most horror films are adapted from these fields. In this context,frightining darknesses in which the evil and obscurity represented by vampires,hidden forces, and non- visibleness bat around characterize the world of the deadat the same time.When considering horror genre as a whole, ıt can be said that the mainstress is on mortality and inevitability of death, and that there is always areference to agreeing the everlastingness of the order. Those who identfy thecriteria for what should be known by saying ?there are secrets better not to know?are the ones who suggest how far dangerous to step out the given order despite itsall evilnesses. Most of the horror films bear ideological approaches. The reasonswhy they are densely influenced by the political affairs in the world lie in theseapproaches.