The 1998 Japanese horror film by Hideo Nakata‚ Ringu‚ is the highest grossing horror film in Japan. Its influence on numerous Asian horror films that followed is seen in many of the narrative‚ visual‚ and thematic similarities that they all share. The Thai horror film The Victim is one example. This essay will discuss the role that the media and technology plays‚ along with the treatment of the supernatural in both Ringu and The Victim. Lastly‚ it will show how both films share similar complex narrative
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The Basics of Supernatural Horror Movies A genre such as supernatural horror is meant for an audience that desires to feel that rush of adrenaline running through their bodies. The purpose of this genre is to satisfy the curiosity of people that let their minds wander off about the supernatural world. The audience expects to get goosebumps‚ and to be on the edge of their seats while chewing their nails. If that is what a movie of this genre causes the audience‚ then the producers have done their
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night. I was passing along a road leading to my grandmother’s house. I was all alone‚ and very scared. The wind was whistling in the trees overhead. I even heard the cry of a night bird. The road passed by a burial ground. At that time I remembered horror serials I had watched on television. Those fearful stories came into my mind. On the side of the road there was a thorny bush. It was so dark that nothing was visible to the naked eye. As I came near the thorny bush‚ I heard a rushing sound. I was
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A review of: Patricia Bernstein’s The First Waco Horror. Patricia Bernstein’s The First Waco Horroris a brutally honest and shocking review of a gruesome act of history in 1916 in a Waco‚ Texas. The First Waco Horror is based around a disturbing incident about a young seventeen-year-old boy by the name of Jesse Washington who was a mentally challenged African American. Jesse Washington was blamed and charged of murdering and raping a white woman. Due to being convicted of such acts‚ Jesse Washington
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The movie is about Slim getting abused from her husband Mitch. After she confronts him about his affairs he got angry and he physical abused her. He becomes verbally abusive even in front of their daughter Gracie. Once she had enough she decides to escape. While she was executing her plan‚ Mitch caught her and again became violent. Mitch grabs his gun and points it towards Slim and her friend. The friend wakes up Gracie to use as a witness with Gracie watching Mitch doesn’t use his gun. Therefore
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American Horror Film and the Critical Public Sphere Should film be purely entertainment or should it contribute to the critical public sphere. In discussing the above argument‚ I will explore how the horror genre‚ often derided as simply pure entertainment‚ can contribute to the public sphere. Horror is one of the more prominent genres in film‚ back as far as the dawn of cinema with films such as Nosferatu (1922) and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920). As a genre‚ it is studied and criticised
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Horror films have always been more attractive to the male viewer than to the female viewer. Why is that? Usually horror films mainly present the audience with very graphic mutilation and the raping of females‚ more so than their male counterparts. Horror films have always depicted females as either objects or as the victim of a horrible act. In Linda William’s essay "When the Woman Looks‚" she says that "there is not that much difference between an object of desire and an object of horror as far
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interesting word to you all which is ”horror”. Most of the time we just simply say that “horror thing”‚ “horror movie”‚ “horror place”‚ but are we really know what is the meaning of horror‚ or define horror in a better way? In fact‚ horror can be defined as anything which causes intense feeling of shock‚ fear‚ terror‚ disgust or something frightening. Horror may caused by something ugly‚ bad or disagreeable‚ hence causing strong dislike or loath. Any definition of horror that asserts any form of fear‚
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the changes they’ve gone through that got them where they are? What I mean to say is do they know they are going crazy? Are they helpless to the events happening to their minds? Or are they oblivious to the events‚ making their life an ever-morphing horror movie? Both sound very intriguing‚ I don’t think I could choose one way or another. I think the journey alone is an adventure worth experiencing. Which brings me to the paradoxical question am I sane? Conventionally no‚ but I understand this. This
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Michelle Rossman “The Blair Witch: A Mock Documentary or A Horror Film?” The film The Blair Witch Project is a story about three film students who mysteriously vanish in 1994 while hiking in the Black Hills in Burkitsville‚ Maryland‚ trying to film a documentary about the Blair Witch‚ a local legend. The audience is notified that the three students were never seen or heard from again. A year later‚ discovered by the police department‚ their video with most of the footage they shot and their
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