Do you, want to play a game? A game in the intense world of Jumanji. Where when you don't use your head or strategy karma will get you. Like with a lion or a monsoon or how about 30 ft snakes. Maybe a stampede of rhinos charging into your living room.…
In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, interactions between Ponyboy and Randy, characters with opposing beliefs, illuminate how rivals should try to look past their judgement and understand the other’s suffering in order to create a connection of compassion. Randy’s beliefs, that Socs are better than greasers, has changed after Ponyboy and Johnny saved children in a burning church, by saying, “‘Thanks, grease’ [...] ‘I didn’t mean that. I meant thanks, kid’” (117).…
The movie, Sixth Sense, is a psychological thriller directed by M.Night Shyamalon. It is a film about a troubled nine-year-old boy, Cole Sear, who can see ghosts that do not know they’re dead, and therefore, is called a ‘freak’ at school because of his actions towards them. Eventually, he becomes hesitant around other people, especially towards his mother, who cares for him but can do nothing but tell herself that the scars and bruises on Cole were simply from ‘sport’ as he would not say a word to her about his secret. Cole’s life begins to change when he meets a child psychologist, Dr Malcolm Crowe, on the…
Everyone likes to watch a horror movie now and then, the thrill of trying to figure out who’s waiting behind the door gives the audiences a feel of suspense which drives people to continue coming. Directors have the luxury of using visual effects and surround sound to captivate its audiences but unlike directors, authors don’t have that luxury. If authors don’t have technological enhancement’s to grasp their readers then what forms of methods do they use? Unlike directors, authors such as Henry James rely on the narrator to evoke suspense to their readers. Henry James’ well renowned novel The Turn of the Screw evokes suspense by having an unreliable narrator which the novel is mostly seen through her eyes. By witnessing the story through the governess’s perspective the readers become unsure of her reliability which induces tension and disconnection; but still the readers become an active participant through her journey. A literary critic named Edward Wilson explores deeper into the thoughts of our narrator. In his novel The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects, Wilson comes to the conclusion that “ the governess who is made to tell the story is a neurotic case of sex repression, and the ghosts are not real ghosts but hallucinations of the governess” ( Wilson,88). Having limited knowledge of the readers narrator the governess, Edward Wilson’s paratext opens up an explanation of her unreliability that could be caused by her sexual repression which is pertinent to her mental instability.…
In our world today, box offices are flooded with giddy teenagers seeking a thrill from horror movies. Horror movies date back all the way to the 1890’s so what is it exactly that keeps viewers wanting more? According to Isabel Cristina Pinedo, there are four key elements to the success of the contemporary horror film. Today’s successful films constitute a violent disruption of the everyday world, transgress and violate boundaries, throw into question the validity of rationality, and repudiate narrative closure. The movie Final Destination (2000) is a more recent horror film that consists of three out of four of Pinedo’s elements. While the movie does not apply to all four elements, the characteristics of the three present are strong enough to allow the film to still be considered a horror film.…
In Divergent by Veronica Roth, the protagonist is Tris Prior, the main character, and the antagonist is Jeanine Matthews, the Erudite Leader. Tris’s role in the story is to hide her divergence, an unknown secret and danger and to pass the Dauntless initiation to become a Dauntless member. As the story progresses, Tris along with Four must save their previous faction, Abnegation, and stop the Erudite and Dauntless revolt to overthrow and run the government. In Veronica Roth’s book, Divergent, Tris can be described as brave, selfless, and determined. First, Tris is brave. After all, the initiates may only enter the Dauntless compound by jumping into a hole where the bottom is unknown. Unlike the still initiates, Tris volunteers to be the first…
Horror and thriller are a long standing favorite media type of our kind. A good scare that lingers in our minds sticks with us in ways other genres do not. The interest can span through movies and novels which both deliver results in different ways. Horrors and thrillers also affect our bodies while watching, though also differently. The reasons of why we like to be scared continue to be studied, but a few theories have emerged that are all partially accepted. Horrors and thrillers stimulate both our bodies and minds because they remain a mystery as to why we like them, they have helped us evolve, and they demand our attention.…
The novel, Divergent, by Veronica Roth, takes place in Chicago where society is divided into five factions. Candor, the honest, Abnegation, the selfless, Dauntless, the brave, Amity, the peaceful, and Erudite, the intelligent. A girl named Beatrice Prior, also known as, Tris is often overshadowed by her brother Caleb’s apparent selflessness, she was pondering over what she wants. She knew she was selfish and she loved being selfish. She wasn’t selfless like an Abnegation should be.…
CORALINE Adapted from a Neil Gaiman book, the story of Coraline would be best described as a gothic, horror. It's nothing like most fairy tales, this movie features lots of intense action and lots of spots throughout the movie that gives you an adrenaline rush. It offers a good range of the strange, abnormal and supernatural storyline which includes; bugs, ghosts, and the terrible Other mother. Coraline can be viewed as a dark and grim fairy tale by most people that choose to watch it. Coraline, whose fantasy world is filled with enchantments, strange creatures, magical toys and talking animals gives you a tense feeling all throughout the movie.…
Good Will Hunting is an American drama type film that was released in 1997 directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Robin Williams (as the therapist), Matt Damon (Will Hunting), Ben Affleck (the best friend Chuckie), Minnie Driver (the love of his life), and Stellan Skarsgård (the professor). The film was actually written by Affleck and Damon, and with Damon in the title role and Affleck as a best friend to the lead. The film follows 20-year-old South Boston laborer Will Hunting (Damon), an unrecognized genius who, as part of a deferred prosecution agreement after assaulting a police officer, becomes a patient of a therapist (Williams) and studies advanced mathematics with a renowned professor (Skarsgård). During his forced therapy meeting, Hunting rethinks his relationships friends, mostly his lifelong best friend Chuckie (Affleck), his new found girlfriend (Driver), and Will Hunting himself, forcing the facing of the task of thinking about his future and letting go of his past.…
“The Sixth Sense” changed the view on life as it is today. After the movie came out the audience was astonished. This movie is one in few movies that have many plot twists throughout the film and leaves hints about what's going to happen in the future. When you are watching the movie, some parts don't make sense. That sounds bad but it’s what makes the movie so great. Uncomprehending the movie makes you question yourself and keeps you watching the movie to see what will happen.…
The novels The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen are novels written by female authors in different time periods each containing the universal theme of feminism. Feminism is the belief that men and women should be treated equally and allowed the same rights and opportunities. Atwood uses the theme of feminism to a lesser extent whereas Austen does the opposite in conveying the female characters as independent human beings. In her novel The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood purposefully portrays her female characters as ones who need to rely on a male figure, a father or a husband, to keep things going whereas in Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen shows her female characters to be much more independent and…
The screenplay, written by Frank Darabont and Kurt Wimmer is in the same time scary, powerful and dramatic. It shows a man whose family was killed and who logically…
For Stephen King, Carrie was a wasted of time, he also tossed the first pages in the garbage can. An horror fiction history about about a girl with a crazy religious mother and a lot people who annoy her, then she discover that has telekinetic power. Even so, his wife thought that it was a good idea and conviced him to continued and sent it to cavallier magazine.As result, he recived a telegram telling him that Carrie is a Doubleday’s book and it became the first Stephen King’s published book.…
The definition of meta, is something that is reflected in itself, or self-referencing of itself in something. It also has to deal with something that is aware of itself. Meta-horror is a horror that self-references itself in the movie, or a horror book. Another concept of meta-horror, is that the characters are going to know how the movie is going to play out, even if they don’t know or think that they are in the movie. In this paper, I will be discussing the two movies I watched in the metahorror genre, You’re Next by Adam Wingard and New Nightmare by Wes Craven. I will talk about two main points, the first being how the two movies show meta horror similarly. Secondly, I will discuss how they discuss and show meta horror in different ways. These movies expressed horror in their own ways, but also in the same ways as movies from the past.…