worldwide are scary because of the metaphors and allegories used behind them. How can a fictional monster be used as an allegory or metaphor? Simple‚ a person’s basic fears are derived from a fictional character from a horror film. For example‚ Leather face‚ from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film‚ is a character that wears a mask of human skin and kills people who have sinned with his chainsaw (Liebesman). He serves as a real world fear because most individuals who sin know that there is not anything they
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The Cove Reflection The Cove is an Academy Award-winning documentary about the horrifying and merciless slaughter of dolphins in Japan. I watched the film in absolute horror... Sometimes with my hand covering my eyes‚ and saw something horrible‚ something bloodier and more brutal than any fictional horror movie could ever do to my mind. I’d seen the previews of the bright red water in the cove where dolphins were killed. I just never realized that what I would learn in the documentary and
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don’t have to worry about dead laughs because people will laugh because there are so jokes put out that even if they don’t laugh at everyone‚ there are plenty to where at some point they will. It is completely parody and it is over horror‚ this tops a lot of the other horror parodies in my opinion. The people who made this movie did a great job of making sure that all of the lighting‚ sound‚ dressing‚ makeup‚ special effects‚ and camera work did very well. There was always enough light and never too
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GENRE The slasher genre started in the late 70’s as a sub-genre to horror. It began with a very specific target audience: teenage boys who were able to experience safe‚ vicarious thrills through the consumption of slashers as a media product. However‚ this relationship between the slasher genre and its demographic has since greatly evolved thanks to concepts such as post modernism‚ gender neutrality and audience sophistication. With the introduction of a female demographic‚ the relationship has
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There is no doubt that the barrage of horror movies over the years as caught the attention of humanity‚ young and old. Movies about monsters so inhuman so beastly that they make us shake with terror‚ but our minds spark with an interest that we didn’t even know we had. One such monster is the vampire. The vampire has been portrayed for centuries as a blood-sucking‚ soulless and ruthless killer. A vampire has no other desire than to obtain it’s most base desires. This being human blood. A vampire
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It is almost Halloween and we all have costumes and haunted houses on our minds. The nights are getting longer‚ darker‚ and colder‚ the perfect conditions for watching a horror movie. We all love horror movies but what makes a horror movie what it is? What happens behind the scenes that brings the whole thing together? Silence of the lambs is a good movie (and originally a book) to look at when it comes down to great chemistry behind the scenes and a great story. If you have never seen the movie
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not‚ in a movie. The movie “It” (2017) portrays a metaphor on fear and bravery (spoiler warning). Although at first it just looks like another horror movie‚ the deep rabbit hole the metaphor has made “It” look like the masterpiece of this century. Instead of
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This paper will look at Ridley Scott’s use of distinctive characteristics from both science fiction and film noir‚ in the multi-generic film Blade Runner. In order to do this‚ we must first establish what the main characteristics are for film noir and science fiction respectively. These can be divided into visual style‚ structure and narrational devices‚ plots‚ characters and settings and finally worldview‚ morality and tone. The reason why it is important to know these genres‚ is because genre
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Caché was that it was an incredibly suspenseful film with an unsatisfying ending. The film was able to project its suspense by doing something that isn’t seen in many films. Caché omitted the use of extra diegetic sound. By doing this the viewer is left with silence. This is something that the audience is not used to experiencing. Horror films have been known to capitalize on the use of silence‚ but never to this extent. Generally‚ horror films use silence only to follow it with something comparable
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Spaulding. (Bill Mosley) Chop top from Texas Chainsaw Massacre II plays Otis Driftwood‚ an outcast to the firefly family but still a family member. (Karen Black) plays Mother firefly‚ with Sheri Moon Zombie in her feature debut as her daughter Baby. The film starts off on Halloween eve in Texas at a gas station‚ where we meet Captain Spualding in the moments before his place gets robbed. A wonderful scene I might mention as to show that Rob Zombie goes into
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