Analyse why morals were used

The impact of using morals in the movies Halloween and Scream showed audiences right and wrong and it showed the fact that doing bad things will only result in bad consequences. The movies indicated that teenagers who have sex, take drugs or drink are the ones that are the victims of the killers, because they are the ones that have done wrong. Most of the morals come from the tales told to children by their parents to keep their children out of trouble, like sex, drinking or drugs. The convention of morals was effective because it taught viewers that doing bad things will only end badly and the movies teach us that if you keep innocent and say out of trouble is the right way to go there are underlying messages through the movies. The movies intended to teach the teenage audience this. Having morals in these movies made them more humane and gave some kind of reason for the killings, it showed that not everyone has to die, only the ones that do wrong and this was a successful technique as it created a moral. The director's use morals in their movies the reflect that teenagers in our society today are like the characters in the movies and this is wrong, the directors are showing that doing the wrong things never end well therefore teenagers today should learn from this. The possible effects on society watching the movies is that they learn from the morals. They see that the characters that do wrong and break the rules are the ones that are punished, in the movies case they are the ones that die. They have the ability to impact wisdom on a subconscious level through fear. 

Explain why Morals were used

Morals were used in both of the films Scream and Halloween, so that the viewers of these two movies would learn from the mistakes of some of the characters in the films, i.e breaking the three main rules. Drinking, taking drugs and having sex were all used in these two movies to show that doing these three things is not a good idea, and that it will only result in bad consequences. In the case of horror movies it results in your death by the killer. It links to the film as a whole because the actions of the characters in these films make the story line and it teaches the viewers that drinking, drugs and sex is bad and doing these things will only result in bad consequences; in the movies' case it results in death. It develops the idea by having some of the characters shown breaking these three main rules and their deaths because of it. It shows that you should stay out of trouble and that you should keep yourself innocent. The characters that are not innocent, are the ones who are the victims of the killers. It shows that the directors' points of view is that drinking, taking drugs and sex are all bad things and teenagers in our society today shouldn't be doing these things. The directors' aims are to have the viewers of these two films realize this, after watching these two films. The director of Halloween, Carpenter dismisses the notion that Halloween is a 'mortality play', regarding it as merely a movie. But critics view this is a different way and see the movie Halloween as a mortality play. Morals have been used in horror movies throughout the years, morals are a conformation of the tradition of horror movies. For years and years horror movies have shown that the people who have sex, take drugs or drink, are the ones that are the ones who will not survive in a horror movie. Horror movies have been putting this message forward for years and in-twining it in the story lines, to not only make an enjoyable movie but to give the movies a moral.

Morals

The two films that i have decided to analyze are Scream (1996) and Halloween (1978)

In horror movies there are certain rules in which you must follow if you do not want to die, follow these rules and you will survive a horror movie. The main three rules are 1. Do not have sex. 2. Do not take drugs and finally, 3. Do not drink. These are all negative things and these two horror movies show the viewers the consequences of braking any of these rules, and the mistakes of the characters that brake these rules, make the morals of the films. In is used in the films by showing us that the characters that break these rules are the ones that are doomed to die. We realize that the ones that drink, have sex, or take drugs are always the ones that are killed by the killer and the characters that behave and are innocent manage to survive. For example, in Halloween Lorie is the only one that survives while her friends who drank, had sex and took drugs were both victims of the masked killer.