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    A hopeful actress gets her first break in a zombie film‚ but then real life zombies trapped the cast and crew on the set and they have to battle to survive. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: CURTIS (40’s) is a desperate movie director who needs his new zombie film to succeed. When his current actress is not working out‚ he decides to find a new actress. VANESSA (20’s) is a hopeful‚ budding actress‚ working as a waitress. She’s star struck when she meets Curtis and the lead actor‚ MARK (20’s). When Vanessa realizes

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    Title: Little Shop of Horrors Type: Musical Script Author: Howard Ashman The story of Little Shop of Horrors is about a young man named Seymour Krelborn who is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik’s flower shop in urban Skid Row. He has a big crush on fellow co-worker Audrey. One day Seymour comes across a strange mysterious unidentified plant which he purchases and names Audrey II. Seymour later discovers that the plant feeds on blood and soon it begins to sing for its supper. Audrey has a cruel

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    interactions of and between Conradin; his cousin and mentor‚ Mrs. de Ropp and Conradin’s Ferret and God: Sredni Vashtar. It can be described as a horror story because of its character’s description‚ themes and setting. It shows the religious downfall of the protagonist‚ the death of the antagonist and the lack of coherence in society. Saki emphasises the horror in the main characters‚ including both the protagonists and antagonists. "Conradin" is described as a "ten years old" boy‚ skinny and sick who

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    In every horror movie there are always certain people that survive. They always go by the same plot like rules. In every horror movie there are rules everyone should follow.. Some of them are the way people act (stereotypes) or what they should and shouldn’t do. In a horror movie there are always the stereotypes of how people act. There are always rules on how to act. The stereotypes are always the same‚ the cool‚ the dumb‚ and the smart friend. The cool one is the jock or the popular guy. They

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    studies indicated that children exposed to horror films avoided real life situations shown in a fictional manner on screen. The subjects exhibited dread of facing those situations. Some children not only avoided real life situations‚ but also come to avoid seeing other movies or TV shows dealing with the same situations that instilled the original fear. Obsession 3. A common effect among older children and even tweens and pre-teens‚ upon viewing horror movies is to obsessively talk about the stimulus

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    essay is available at the end of the article for reference. An Excuse for Horror: Stephen King’s “Why We Crave Horror Movies” The first Stephen King novel I read‚ Christine‚ was chilling‚ weird‚ creepy‚ and strange. But I loved it. The second‚ Carrie‚ was even less normal‚ and I was enthralled by it‚ too. How could these horror stories of a possessed‚ homicidal car and a supernatural‚ misunderstood‚ vengefully murderous teen be a story for

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    Although monsters are a significant feature of many horror stories‚ in “What is the Horror Genre?” the author‚ Sharon A. Russell discusses how there are more effective way to explain the categorization of the horror genre itself. Russell mentions five ways horror can be categorized: suspense‚ setting‚ organization‚ source of horror‚ and theme. The first category‚ suspense‚ talks about how tension is created because of the readers’ knowledge of the horror genre in that they know that the characters always

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    Stephen King’s presumptuous article‚ "Why We Crave Horror Movies"‚ inspects the inner‚ mentally psychotic adaptation of human beings‚ and explores our obsessive attraction to gruesome and tantalizing  horror movies. He believes that we are all secretly morbid and insist on using scary films to produce our psychotic relief from the demanding civilized society we live in; King states‚ " I think we are all mentally ill; those of us outside of the asylums only hide it a little better ". He values the

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    experience. If movies are dreams‚ then horror movies are nightmares‚ and if they are nightmares‚ then why do we watch‚ create and enjoy them? Unfortunately‚ this burning question has yet to receive a universal answer‚ although the movies themselves‚ the brain’s activity and the multiple theories are all clues pointing towards the explanation of humanity’s fascination with fear. As with all art‚ movies reflect and reveal human nature. In the case of horror movies‚ they expose the fears and desires

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    “Why We Crave Horror Movies” – A Summary In “Why We Crave Horror Movies”‚ Stephen King theorizes that everyone is mentally ill to some degree - some people just hide it better than others. King’ tongue in cheek observation is offered with a touch of humour to alleviate the discomfort which the reader might feel if at any time there was the thought that this actually might be true. Horror movies‚ like scary stories and thrilling amusement park rides‚ allow us to challenge our fears‚ to

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