Horror

Psycho & Scream.

!. Insanity: Insanity is used in both Psycho and Scream with some of the main characters in both the movies go insane with killing such as in Psycho when Norman Bates thinks hes his own mother and goes on a mass killing spree. Norman is also very crazy because he keeps his mother preserved in his room even though she has been dead for many years. He has gotten into such a terrible mental state that he has conversations with himself thinking that he is his own mother..In Scream, the two killers Billy and Stu claim to have no motive and just kill for the fun of it. They kill many people just to act like life is a big movie.Stu also kills his own girlfriend for no reason and they both try to kill Sidney who is Billy girlfriend for no reason.

2.  I think they used insanity in the films to get the viewers to think that this is a very un-natural thing to scare the audience more. It stopped all the cliche horror films and just made so that the person didn't really have a motive for killing people which scared the viewers at the time the movie came out. Both the movies were turning points in the Horror industry because it showed that you don't need to have a grudge to kill people.
The directors of the filmswere trying to scare the audience as much as possible so by using very Gorey  scenes with stabbing and main characters getting killed off. they were also trying to get across that if you do bad things then karma will come. In Psycho the female at the start had stolen a lot of money and ran away from town. She ended up getting murdered by Norman on a crazy rage. Also in scream some of the main characters get killed because they have sex and they all drink alcohol.

3. The movies differed from each other the way they came across the audience quite a lot and they both changed the modern way of doing movies. They both mirrored the normal society at that time period in which it was created. For example, in scream it was set in a modern college/high school with the classic "Beta houses" when the football players are separated from the nerds and the school is categorized. this reflects the tim as it was made in 1996 which is when college was like that quite a lot. Also in Psycho, it reflected the society at that time as the cars are quite old fashioned and $40,000 is a lot of money as it is 1960. The insanity part of it reflects that time as not many people were known to be this insane at the time therefore it scared the audience more. It showed that strange things can happen even in "normal towns". This added quite a good profit to the movie as more people wanted to see it. Before both of the movies, the older movies never really had people this insane and mainly just had someone with a grudge or science fiction horrors with large beasts and monsters. The insanity in Psycho differs a lot from Scream by having the main characters have different forms of insanity. Norman Bates is just crazy within himself  and is schizophrenic so he talks to himself thinking that he is his own mother after not getting over her death. Billy and Stu from Scream have a different form of insanity then Norman because they are just blood thirsty and kill for the fun of it which i think is more scarier as it shows that practically anyone could be a killer. Top movie reviewers say that the movies insanity part played a large role on the movies success and they both played a large part in creating todays horrors.