Media, De Montfort University
Thesis title:
This thesis examines the relationship between audience reception and industrial production as it applies to the role of special effects within specific genre films, notably body horror as an intersection between horror and science-fiction. In order to do so, it considers the role of special effects within body horror cinema, how these effects are received by an audience, how these effects are presented to an audience, and in what ways an audience interest in special effects in turn creates industrial motivation to improve new and more interesting SFX techniques.