The Cabin in the Woods 1. Joss Whedon says that ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ is “your basic horror movie taken apart; five kids go to a cabin in the woods to have a fun weekend of partying and possibly sex… and are therefore dismembered”. Whedon and Goddard have in essence tried to create a movie with roots tied to the horror genre; it is simply your common slasher movie where the characters are killed off one by one till there is either one person left or none for that matter. ‘The Cabin in the
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The Final Girl The Final Girl is a female character in a horror or slasher film that is the last person left alive. The Final Girl typically has characteristics that the other female characters in the movie do not possess. She may present masculine features‚ is intelligent and may be virginal‚ is the first to grasp the severity of the situation‚ can actively defend herself‚ often kills or injures the killer‚ always fights back‚ and is often saved by a male character in the end. Laurie Strode
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“Timecrimes”‚ a science fiction film about a man who finds himself stuck in a time loop only to realize that he is constantly running from himself. “Timecrimes” was directed and written by Nacho Vigalondo who also starred it in. It is thanks to his character for creating the start of the time loop‚ though we never find out why the loop started originally. Perhaps‚ it was an elaborate scheme thought up by Nacho Vigalondo’s character‚ El Joven. In my opinion‚ this is the best example of the auteur
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have flicked onto an interesting movie. It’s a horror film‚ your favourite. Your getting really into the movie and enjoying it‚ the suspense is building up and your dying to know what’s going to happen. Your coming to the climax of the film‚ you cant wait to see what happens and your on the edge of your seat... and then the film stops and is replaced for 2 to 3 minutes of adverts. Your sense of excitement has disappeared immediately hasn’t it? When the film eventually appears back on your screen‚ you
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fantastic portrait of the best dozen years of American film and the insane circumstances that created them. The reading included many features in one‚ cultural anthropology‚ film criticism‚ and gossip. This book is an excellent account of the film industry revolution during the 60’s and 70’s. It focuses more on the directors and not the actors‚ which is good because most of the decent directors of that time were completely out of their minds. The films made by the featured directors were so rich with the
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Walking down an old moldy hallway with distressed stairs screaming with every step‚ there is a dimly lit doorway leading to a hunched withered old man aggressively working on a grey‚ decomposing body. This is what horror films have drilled into our heads of what a mortician is; when in reality a Mortician is not just an embalmer with the stigma of death that shadows them around. Morticians have a wide variety of undertakings; they supervise the preparations of the burial‚ arrange funerals and services
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the game when making a movie. Suspense is a strange aspect in film‚ the audience almost knows that something is going to jump out‚ but they still scream as if it was unexpected. Alfred Hitchcock was the king of suspense‚ especially in his film Psycho. Hitchcock uses different camera angles‚ lighting‚ and especially music/sound effects to really get the audience’s heart racing. Alfred Hitchcock is notorious for using McGuffin’s in his films. A McGuffin is an occurrence or action that seems like the whole
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What Makes Interstellar a Good Movie. With genres varying from horror and comedy‚ romance and sci-fi‚ everyone has his or her favorite movie. Their favorite movie is the one they think was so good and entertaining that they would watch it time and time again. However‚ other people may view the same movie as horrible. So what makes a movie truly good? How can philosophers help us come to a universal meaning “good” in the movie industry? Philosophers such as Plato‚ Aristotle‚ and Socrates can give
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The Girl with All the Gifts came very recommend by a coworker with similar tastes in films. He thought this would a film I would like since he feels it’s an interesting take on the tradition zombie film. Which is something I do agree with‚ though I don’t hold in the same kind of regard as he does. The Girl with All the Gifts feels like its trying to get me to like by being as much like other zombie stories that are popular. The Fungus‚ and the Carol character being the most egregious. In the somewhat
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words or concepts more clearly. Sometimes‚ however‚ we simply need to define what something is so that the reader understands it the same way we do. This is what your definition essay will do. Just like Sayoh Mansaray’s “The Offbeat Allure of Cult Films‚” which you should have read for class‚ your first assignment will define a particular sub-genre of movie‚ music‚ or television program. In other words‚ you need to choose a sub-genre you find interesting and define it for the reader‚ using both examples
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