The Appeal of SFX: The Relationship between Special Effects and Film Reception in Horror and Sciencefiction

这个项目将确定和调查在科幻和恐怖电影，特别是身体恐怖电影中的特效的重要性，对这些电影的批评接受。它还将描绘几个关键时期的特效发展，以及这些特效是如何向潜在观众推销的，以便衡量这些特效是如何影响电影的接受度的，以及接受度在多大程度上反过来影响了这些电影中特效的发展。

This project will identify and investigate the importance of special effects within science-fiction and horror films, specifically body horror films, on the critical reception of these films. It will also chart the development of special effects over several key periods and how these special effects have been marketed to prospective audiences, in order to gauge how these have influenced a film's reception and to what extent the reception has in turn had an effect on the development of special effects within these films.