Noel Carroll
Attention/repulsion: Attracted to gore and violence whilst simultaneously being repulsed by it. We enjoy killer point of view shots yet we do not identify with them. We fear vampires but fancy them. We can't stand looking but can't stop looking.
Laura Mulvey
Male Gaze: The film positions us at the killers point of view spying on the woman, objectifying her but simultaneously empathizes with the victims on screen while still occupying the killers point of view.
There is a shift from seeing the world through the killers eyes to seeing through the final girls.
Cynthia Freeland
Graphic violence and gore are so over the top and exaggerated that the create a "perverse sublime" - making something so far fetched that we can enjoy the film on an aesthetic entertaining level
Freud
The uncanny: Something secret and disturbingly strange. It's what ought to have been kept secret but has come to light within the unconscious or subconscious mind. It is essentially the return of the repressed and it is projected onto objects, peoples and places. The uncanny valley is also important here this is things that are close to reality but aren't quite there.
Jung
The Shadow: The animalistic side of us, the 'evil' or 'bad' in us that we do not want to be and is projected onto an external figure like the monster of villain in a horror film.
Adam Lowenstein
Spectacle horror: Combination of special effects, camerawork, gore music etc is more important than the suspense and topic of the movie. For example, jump scares become a better way of creating fear
Carol Glover
Argued horror offers males a chance to revel in their feminine side and also claimed slasher movies were actually feminist . E.g. Final girl theory
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