For an actantial model of the body in metamorphosis in horror film

Abstract

There is no escaping the assertion that horror cinema postulates the hardships of fear in grotesque representation of the body. A subgenre of this type which emerges is the body horror, wherein the effect of sense of fear arises from the construction of a monstrous-horrendous body, whose identity was previously figurative designed as a model actancial body in metamorphosis. As a reference center of the flesh, the metamorphosis is grounded on four forces that generate pressures and impulses on the body-actant of the subject in construction, limiting it to a specific body system. These forces affect the body-actant and protrude out of his self reference, as it postulates the reverse as a new way of life. The subject is the reverse of the anti-subject horizon towards the grotesque. Projection of bodies in the filmic narrative, we can say that the body has characteristics disturbing horror, both design of bodies-actants immersed in fear and perception of a body that sets the discomfort of the supernatural as a grotesque form of spill over the anxieties of the world. Therefore, it is postulated here a model actancial body in metamorphosis, established in the statement of horror from four forces that shape a system body guiding the development of the narratives of fear: the modification, the transformation, the transmutation, and the mutation.