Amber Musgrove 10/14/14 Summary 2In his writing‚ The Movies That Rose From the Grave‚ Max Brooks‚ explains how movies‚ books‚ video games‚ and television shows about Zombies have continued to be a leader in the horror industry for the past 40 years. The story of Zombies originated as myths and tall tales. The first Zombie movie‚ White Zombie‚ was released in 1932. During this time period‚ a Zombie was a living person that was made to act as a corpse. With the release of George A. Romero’s movie
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Telotte’s article (2001) discusses the genre of science fiction and there meaning in our culture. Telotte (2001) discusses how while there are hallmarks of the genre such as creative and technical limitations of the film medium‚ iconography‚ themes‚ and narrative‚ the genre is still too diverse to be properly defined . These hallmarks however allow audiences to identity elements of science fiction by observing the iconography in them such as space ships‚ future technology and aliens. Even though
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I can still recall the first time that I saw a horror film. I was seven years old and the movie was Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger. Freddy is a frightening character in the 1984 film. He is a serial killer who has knives instead of fingernails. The nightmare that haunted me nightly was the scene when a teenage girl wanders around a dark boiler room in only her nightgown‚ a screeching is heard as knives are scratched against the pipes. The combination of reality into the movie made it
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The intense loneliness of Day of The Dead. A film with a few but very stereotypical cast. The cast consists of an independent female leader‚ a crazy doctor‚ a lazy happy Jamaican‚ a drunk Irish‚ and a group of angry gung ho soldiers looking for an excuse to kill the scientists. From the very beginning everything is empty. The whole town is quiet and the heroin goes out to look for any survivors with a friend. The words of hello Echo through the town but no one reply’s. This goes on for about nine
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cultural event or extra credit and I knew of a few friends who were attending. I have absolutely no idea why I possibly thought this could end in such a way that I wasn’t completely terrified. I hate horror movies‚ haunted houses‚ and generally anything scary. Prior to Haunted High‚ I had only seen one horror movie‚ House at the End of the Street‚ and I only agreed to watch it if my cousin told me exactly what was going to happen and when. Anytime I hear a scary story I will spend the next week or two
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In film making‚ the actor is the face of the film. Acting is not just pretending to be someone else; it is becoming the character thereby creating the magic of effective acting. Noticeable actors are usually our way into a movie. (Goodykoontz‚ & Jacobs 2011). Impersonator: Usually these roles are found in historical and biographical stories. (Goodykoontz‚ & Jacobs 2011). I think of Denzel Washington impersonating Malcolm X in 1992; where Mr. Washington took on the person of Malcolm X and delivered
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Freshmen Comp 1030 October 30‚ 2012 What’s Behind the Door? While waiting in line for the midnight premiere of the newest horror flick‚ we have adrenaline running through our bodies watching the previews and seeing the lights dim. At last it is completely dark. Creepy music makes its way into the theater; we can feel the anticipation in the air. Our palms begin to sweat‚ our hearts are racing‚ and our minds are questioning “what’s going to happen next?”. Finally we are being shown what is behind
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Describe an interesting film you saw recently. You should say; What is the title? When did you see it? What is the story about? And explain why this movie was interesting to you. Last summer‚ my family and I went to AMC Movie Theater in Cupertino and enjoyed a movie entitled “Journey to the Center of the Earth”. It was a Science Fiction and adventure movie in three-dimensions. We enjoyed state-of –the-art computer graphics in the movie. For instance‚ when a dinosaur chased the characters
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of it seems terrifying on paper‚ but an entire horror subgenre and classic films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Deliverance have been formed around these ridiculous characters. But what if the yokels aren’t the violent animals that they seem to be‚ but rather misunderstood simple folk that get caught up in a series of horrific coincidences? Enter writer/director Eli Craig’s Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. As the title suggests‚ the film centers on two rednecks named Tucker (Alan Tudyk)
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Horror films have always been more attractive to the male viewer than to the female viewer. Why is that? Usually horror films mainly present the audience with very graphic mutilation and the raping of females‚ more so than their male counterparts. Horror films have always depicted females as either objects or as the victim of a horrible act. In Linda William’s essay "When the Woman Looks‚" she says that "there is not that much difference between an object of desire and an object of horror as far
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