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    It seems Scream season 3 is pushing through. The formula in making a successful horror franchise is quite sensitive. Especially if the production is adapting a popular horror franchise. And it looks like MTV is struggling to make this nightmare live long enough. Which is why Scream season 3 is indeed coming back. But there is one big catch to this come-back. The series is only coming back for six episodes. Why the short run? It looks like the franchise does not have enough story to go on. With

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    sitting on the couch in the comfort of your own home being forced to shut your eyes because of an intriguing‚ captivating horror movie. The movie‚ Trick ’R Treat‚ utilizes Halloween traditions‚ clever usage of practical effects‚ and a unique directing style to captivate and horrify movie-goers. Trick ’R Treat‚ in theaters December 9‚ 2007 produced by Warner Bros‚ intertwines five horror stories to illustrate the origins of Halloween. The director‚ Michael Doughetry‚ (commonly known for X-Men: Apocalypse)

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    Tim Burton Film Analysis

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    young age Burton has directed unique films. A great example of this is his 1982 Hansel and Gretel‚ which aired only once due to the strangeness in its entirety. Burton uses non-diegetic sounds‚ low key lighting‚ and long shots in his work to display how one who overcomes his fear of being different has the potential for success. Tim Burton‚ in Hansel and Gretel‚ uses non-diegetic sounds to grow an uneasy feeling upon the audience. Throughout the duration of the film‚ Burton developed an evil presence

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    never in a positive manner‚ especially in horror novels. Who brought the disease? What causes the infection to occur? Where are the “infected” living? When will it stop? These questions are the basis for what Bill Albertini calls the “Outbreak Narrative” (Albertini 443). The conclusive part of the outbreak narrative is what keeps film viewers at the edge of their seats; what draws faces into the depths of the horror novels. In the most successful of horror stories‚ such as Living Dead‚ Resident Evil

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    Logan's Run Film Analysis

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    On 1976‚ the film Logan’s Run was released into theatres based on the novel of the same title. Since the release‚ the film has gotten multiple good and terrible reviews regarding its plot and its special effects. The film won a Special Effects Academy Award and was nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration. After watching Logan’s Run‚ it was evident that the special effects used in the film were terrible if you were to compare it to todays special effects. Since it

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    Introduction: Tim Burton is an American film director who is known for many quirky and gothic type films like Alice in Wonderland‚ Edward Scissorhands‚ Beetlejuice and many more. His films explore concepts that are supernatural and would not feature realistic things in the real world‚ similar to the suburbs giving off by a dystopian feel and a man with scissor hands. Tim Burton use multiple things as his signature for his films but the most recurring ones are non-proportionally body features‚ incorporation

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    The Final Girl

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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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    The Birds Contrast Paper

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    The celebrated short story "The Birds" by Daphne Du Maurier contrasts greatly with its film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. When analyzing each tale in depth one might conclude many things about what effect both the author and director wished to have on its audience. Some of the smallest changes from story to film caused some of the most dramatic thematic changes and allowed for two very different tales of horror and suspense to evolve. The setting of each version of "The Birds" is just one of the

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    Although that the film is a rural comedy‚ Berlanga imitates some of the most important film genres: western‚ film noir‚ epics and Soviet Realism. These different genres‚ most of them American‚ are used in the dream sequences of the film. With those dreams‚ the director tried to explain the fears and ambitions of the characters and to make a relationship between the genres and the ideology of the characters. The first character that we see dreaming in the film is Don Cosme who is the priest of the

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    It was a wonderful day in southern Spain and Sara and Kevin was out for a walk in the mouintains on their last vacation day. The view was extrodernery‚ olive plantings turning the otherwise dry land green and small white houses forming tiny villages‚ everything bathing in the strong Andalusian sunlight. As they walked upon an old path with a high cliff on the left-hand-side they passed a yellow sign with some text and the cliff painted in black‚ but since neither of them spoke Spanish they thought

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