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    themselves to think about horror movies. Most may experience the feeling of butterflies in their stomach for fear or just pure excitement‚ but where does that fear or excitement come from? One might say that it is the anti-social instincts of horror that we all have hidden and festering deep down inside. A great horror author Stephen King once said‚” that watching a horror movie helps us control the anti-social instincts we all have inside”. Some people might say that we are all a little crazy and

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    some of the motives why most people love watching a movie in a cinema. To really experience a film it must be seen on the big screen. The darkness‚ the high-quality presentations‚ the thriving sound‚ and the size of the screen generate an atmosphere that augments the joy of seeing a film. But I consider there are only a few genres that are capable of making the theater experience meaningful and eternal. The three top categories to see in a cinema are‚ without doubts: suspense‚ horror‚ and action.

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    Stephen King

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    overview - Its obvious that the united states would have to compromise it ideals to preserve the grand alliance if we didnt it would be like american dominating over all the countries which would result in conflict.To create the united nations the united states had to make compromises Just like they made compromises with the declaration of the liberated europe for example we did not wish to have any repermations‚However in the final document the othe nations wanted to have access to german labor

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    Thomas Fuselier Why do we need heroes? Professor James Winters While they may be very different from one another almost every movie must have some type of hero. Screen writers and movie directors must constantly develop these different types of heroes to please the many different attitudes and opinions of movie goers. Movie enthusiast all have different reasons for liking the movie heroes they do and it is up to the screen writers‚ actors‚ and directors to successfully please the movies target audience

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    Text Review – ’Misery’ by Stephen King Title: ’Misery’ Author: Stephen King Plot: Paul Sheldon is a famous writer who created the popular ’Misery’ series‚ and has just killed off the main character‚ Misery Chastain. He has just finished writing a new novel called ’Fast Cars’ and is heading to New York to get the manuscript printed when his car crashes in Colorado. He is pulled from the wreckage with both of his legs shattered by his number one fan‚ Annie Wilkes. She took him to her home

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    period. Stephen King is an outstanding horror writer he started writing professionally in 1974 and has released new books as late as 2008. Stephen King an American author has truly made a significant impact on today’s readers. King can turn marital stress‚ peer pressure‚ or adultery into a terrifying epic that would make your skin crawl. Stephen king was born September 21‚ 1947. Stephen’s birth was a tremendous surprise to his parents as they had been told they could not have children. King witnessed

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    Stephen King Notes

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    Notes Link: http://www.trcb.com/onlinebooks/leisure/horror-literature--life-after-stephen-king-1317.htm  It’s common knowledge that Stephen King took a literary subgenre in the early eighties and turned it into a mainstream literary genre  Bestsellers like Shinning‚ Carrie‚ Blood and Smoke and even Bag of Bones (which was the first book in the genre to be given in depth analysis by literary critics worldwide) propelled horror literature to a class of its own‚ away from the scorned subgenre

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    watched a movie called “horror story” (2013)‚ which was a film based around people of India. The movie was about seven young adults who decided to spend a night in an abandoned haunted hotel. It was a great movie but I couldn’t avoid the social psychology term stereotype. In the movie‚ the characters ranged from athletic‚ attractive looking men‚ to beautiful‚ innocent females and the sexy (whore-like) females. The stereotypical characters died in the order of the typical horror story that was brought

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    the loving mother. Instead‚ motherhood can likewise revolve around abuse‚ possession‚ monstrosity‚ and hatred. This contradictory role of motherhood is often represented in maternal horror films‚ in which the mother‚ or the female figure‚ is the source of the dysfunctionality and horror within the family. Maternal horror films revolve around the “bad” mothers‚ who are violent‚ anti-social‚ abusive‚ oppressive‚ and dominating. The maternal figure of a “bad” mother challenges the traditional perspectives

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    are all what humans are capable of doing and humans can be very dangerous creatures. Animated dolls have the ability to go through the process of thinking their actions through so‚ are fully aware of what they are about to do next. In most of these horror films these dolls openly said what they are about to do and even gave evil looks to the person. Also‚ “I also think the animate doll taps into childhood fears.” (Keetley) This explains how children actually believe that these dolls come alive at

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