The topic I have chosen for my investigation is horror/gore films. The hypothesis I'm trying to show is the desensitization that audiences have adopted from films like Carrie and The Human Centipede. What I've noticed over the years is the competition within the film industry as to who can produce the most thrilling, spine-chilling, downright mortifying horror films that still appeal to audiences. There are always a lot of people who are appalled by the copious amounts of blood they find in most horror/thriller films, so why are productions like these still being made? The public wants more. They want more blood, more extreme deaths and suspense; but how far will they go? Where will the line be drawn? In a world so saturated and rooted in violence, where brutal murders, wars and deaths can be seen on television and read in newspapers, is it possible that people are becoming numb to this? Think back to 1960, when Alfred Hitchcock released his now world-famous horror film, Psycho. The famous scene where actress Janet Leigh is attacked in the shower and repeatedly stabbed to death brutally and very graphically by the psychotic killer played by Anthony Perkins. In the 1960s, not many directors were brave enough to delve into the horror/gore genre and explore it thoroughly; this made Psycho terrifying and was considered particularly violent. If you compare this film to some of the horror/gore films being released in the present, Psycho would be considered tame by today's standards. Comparing Psycho to a modern horror like Carrie, it is evident how much the horror film industry has changed and developed. It has grown in such a way that we are always looking for a higher thrill, for a… middle of paper… increase in volume. They then fall and whip the ground when they make contact. He carries the facial expression at this time shows no remorse. The sizzling of the wires then causes what looks like the same pattern of light you'd get with a bolt of lightning; this fills the room with intervals of blinding lights. Jump cuts are used repeatedly to show the students in the hall trying to escape the hall. Echoes of students yelling things like, “We have to go!” and "Next!" covers the non-diegetic sound of the instrumental track in the background, however it is not shown which students exactly say this. Going back to the original Carrie, things are starting to take a turn for the worse. One of the students tries to take control of the fire hydrant that is killing and injuring his classmates. The non-diegetic suspenseful instrumental track is increasing in volume ever so slightly.