history (495). Archetypal characters are extremely common in mythology‚ religion‚ and even horror films. For example‚ certain characters from the film "Night of the Living Dead"‚ including Ben‚ Barbara‚ the Cooper family‚ and even the zombies themselves‚ all can be classified as archetypical figures commonly used in myth and folklore. The first character to examine is the character of Barbara. The film starts out with Barbara and her brother‚ Johnny‚ visiting their father’s grave. Barbara’s
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Anderson Introduction to Film Instructor Cicely Denean-Cobb January 7‚ 2013 Critiquing of “The Exorcist” The movie “The Exorcist” is one of the most classic horror movies ever known. It invokes man’s greatest most primal instinct “Fear”. This film has created a lot of controversy between the church and producer. The church saying that it is the work of the devil and that a demon lives in the film. While the producer says it is just a scary film. Either way there is no doubt
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into slavery‚ where they train to fight as gladiators. Saturday the 14th Strikes Back (1988) – The Mummy - In this horror comedy film‚ Eddie and his family inherit a creepy‚ ramshackle house. They are unaware that the house was built over an evil passage‚ but they soon realize what it unravels. Michael Berryman portrays "the Mummy" in this film‚ among other classic horror monsters. Far Out Man (1989) – Angry Biker - Far Out Man is the first movie where Tommy Chong performs independently
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The film that I am focusing my comparative historical analysis to is‚ Underworld. Directed by Len Weisman and written by Danny McBride. Underworld’s relationship between history and the filmmaking process are cohesive in reference to this European and American film. The film was made in 2003. Long ago and in a land far away‚ their were meadows that were stalked by wolves. “The first known stories about vampires come from England around 1190. During the Middle Ages‚ 30‚000 people were condemned as
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Crave Horror Movies‚” published in the December 1981 issue of Playboy Magazine‚ thriller author Stephen King uses a sarcastic but menacing tone to explain why people watch horror films. In the very first sentence of the article‚ King shows that we are all insane to some degree; we are all mentally ill‚ but some can hide it better than others (King 222). Why do you spend so much time and money going to the cinemas to see horror movies? We go simply to show that we are not afraid. Great horror films
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Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing. Albany‚ NY: State University of New York‚ 1997. N. pag. Print. Reading Summary: Pinedo’s work exemplifies the effects on behavior and feelings of a person through horror films. The desire to watch films of gore and murder are also explained through comparisons of horror films to pornography. The audience of a horror film becomes intrigued with the effects of not seeing during horror films‚ allowing their
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Catalogue Films: Item 1: Black Christmas (1974) A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break. A great example for weaker roles for women as every member of the female cast is killed off. I intend to pick out key scenes to use as examples in discussion. Item 2: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) A group of friends passing through are stalked and hunted down by a deformed killer with a chainsaw in order
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night. I was passing along a road leading to my grandmother’s house. I was all alone‚ and very scared. The wind was whistling in the trees overhead. I even heard the cry of a night bird. The road passed by a burial ground. At that time I remembered horror serials I had watched on television. Those fearful stories came into my mind. On the side of the road there was a thorny bush. It was so dark that nothing was visible to the naked eye. As I came near the thorny bush‚ I heard a rushing sound. I was
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his music videos. The naked Gucci man discussed in Susan Bordo’s “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body” is another example of how times have changed. The main focus of this paper is on how men and women are portrayed in the movies‚ more specifically‚ horror movies. From the time when Alfred Hitchcock’s movie The Birds was released in 1963 to the 2002 release of Cabin Fever‚ the portrayal of men and women had changed dramatically. The way the women and men dressed and behaved in the movie had changed
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2010 THE RING AND THE GRUDGE: SUBVERSION OF CULTURE THROUGH EMPTINESS AND LONELINESS THE Onryō’S QUEST TO DESTROY THE BOURGEOISIE Hollywood; thoughts of the movie star and the next big feature film come to mind at the mention of it‚ but rarely does it evoke feelings of fear. The horror movie‚ on the other hand‚ does a fine job of evoking our fear responses in one form or another. Gore Verbinski’s The Ring and Takashi Shimizu’s The Grudge‚ as well as their Japanese predecessors‚ Nakata
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