directed by Martin Scorsese‚ is a psychological thriller film that portrays psychological treatments in the 1950’s. Martin Scorsese’s alteration of the Dennis Lehane novel‚ Shutter Island‚ is in fact a horror movie‚ but it will not come across as your average present-day horror film. Typically directors take ghosts‚ monsters‚ vampires‚ or possessed people and develop a film to scare its viewers‚ and it more than likely always does. The average horror film filled with a group of “hills have eyes looking”
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Seminar paper Cognitive Theories and Human Emotion Cognitive Theories: Cognitivism in Film and the Appeal of Horror Shireen Jamooji Cognitive Theories: Cognitivism in Film and the Appeal of Horror What is Cognition? Throughout every waking hour and often while they are asleep‚ a person is thinking. It is an involuntary practice of mentally processing information. The cognitive rearrangement or manipulation of both information from the environment and symbols stored in long term memory is
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since I have been a little kid‚ I have always loved horror movies. This genre of movies interests me‚ because you are constantly kept on the edge of your seat. I think when you take a look at various horror films and compare them; you will notice an array of different scare tactics/methods. You will also notice many cliché ideas that a lot horror flicks have in common. I will point these ideas out in detail‚ when I compare The Dawn of The Dead horror flick released in 1978‚ with the one released in
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NAME AND SURNAME: Ezachia Ngcobo STUDENT NUMBER: 0514961J COURSE NAME: Spectatorship in the cinema-horror COURSE NUMBER: DRAA 342 LECTURER: Catherine Duncan DUE DATE: 31 October 2007 ESSAY TOPIC: Carol Clover argues that‚ in particular the slasher film disturbs the traditional model of spectatorship and identification. "As the character who lives to tell the tale of horror‚ the final girl‚ Clover argues‚ must be accessible as a point of identification to male viewers. For this reason
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When dozen of people are asked what makes a good horror film‚ their answers will most likely vary. While some may claim that a horror film needs to be scary and intense‚ others may claim that a horror film needs to have special effects and illusions. Despite the multitude of varying horror film traits‚ one thing is certain‚ these traits are what allow makes horror films so spooky. In one of George Melies’s film‚ The Trip To The Moon‚ there were many examples of it being scary and having crazy cool
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After watching the movie Zombieland I noticed that it was a very gory film‚ but I didn’t find it scary just very disgusting. It was interesting to see that only a hand full of humans survived the violence from the zombies. In the movie Columbus struggled to survive because before the zombies took over he was full of anxiety and was very fearful of being around people. He made a list of things on what to do to survive in the world‚ but the zombies overrode everything that was on his list. For example
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Arbogast is slashed to death by a psychotic murderer who seemingly appears out of nowhere. The fact that this scene made me‚ a connoisseur of modern day horror movies‚ jump‚ proves the fact that this 1960`s classic‚ Psycho is a home-run. Alfred Hitchcock is and should be recognized as a movie making genius with his excellent development of the horror movie Psycho‚ complete with great camera work and top of the line suspense that will have viewers jumping out of their seats. One of the best aspects
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“Zombieland” is a film where a lot of stylistic choices were made. Especially the opening scene says a lot about the film and the characters. Mise-en-scene‚ cinematography‚ editing and sound shape the film’s effect on the viewer. The film begins in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. The first shot is unbalanced to prime our expectation that something will change position. The shot is of the American flag‚ which is focused while the background is unfocused which means it indicates that the flag
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All of the very base elements of horror are certainly still present inThe Shining. There is a villain‚ who (or that) is out to destroy someone (it is arguable whether the hotel wants to destroy Jack or his family‚ or both). There is certainly a supernatural element‚ made all the more intriguing by the mention of the Indian burial ground‚ and the ambiguous ghostly ending. Kubrick even alludes to the supernatural or ghost element through his use of cutting. When Stuart Ullman (Barry Nelson) and Bill
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Caligari to Hitler was the first film of it’s kind‚ introducing the world to German Expressionism. This film set the stage for men like Fritz Lang to come along and make iconic movies. Fritz Lang made the German Expressionism style popular with M and some of his other great films. In two of the opening scenes and the penultimate scene of M‚ Lang is able to prove his legacy and the film noir style is prevalent. As seen in an interview between Gero Gandert and Fritz Lang‚ Lang tried to emulate the
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