Stuart M. Kaminsky was a mystery writer and film professor.
Aspects of his work:
Aspects of his work:
- he noticed that in horror films they never use guns, but they use knives, chainsaws, sickles etc instead. The point of it is to make the murder more personal and close intimate. It makes the scene more gore and also dangerous, as weapons such as knives or hammers can be found in our safety places (home).
- 'Extensions of their own body' - meaning the weapons become part of the killer, making the him more threatening. The literal example is 'Freddy 'Krueger', who actually creates gloves with knives attached to be worn
- Weapons like this make the film more scary because it is as if they are killing someone with just their own body