One of the more important‚ if not groundbreaking‚ accounts/recuperations of the horror film from a feminist perspective is Carol Clover’s Men‚ Women‚ and Chainsaw. One of the book’s major points concerns the structural positioning of what she calls the Final Girl in relation to spectatorship. While most theorists label the horror film as a male-driven/male-centered genre‚ Clover points out that in most horror films‚ especially the slasher film‚ the audience‚ male and female‚ is structurally ’forced’
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A huge crowd spills across the sidewalk around the casino. The enormous lit guitar is kind of cool. Based on the clothes everyone wears‚ Kurt can almost imagine Rocky Horror is showing‚ but he’s not quite getting a Rocky vibe from the group. Most of the girls have extremely large breasts and wear skimpy dresses. The dress code for the guys is similar‚ tight clothing and several have their shirts unbuttoned to display
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the better horror movies. There are quite a few Freddy Krueger movies out there‚ and this movie all started in 1984‚ with A Nightmare on Elm Street. In 2010‚ there came a remake of the 1984 Nightmare on Elm Street movie. In these two movies there are comparisons and differences between these two‚ which include Freddy Krueger himself‚ music and sound effects‚ nightmares‚ and the graphics. Freddy Krueger is pretty much the same‚ but there are some differences between these creepy horror flicks. Freddy
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criminals chasing her. This type of narrative shows a typical British Horror film because we see; the blood from where charcters have been attacked‚ the weapons used‚ charcters being issolated‚ vast forest spaces‚ the girl being left on her own to defend for herself and so on. However this also contradicts what a British Horror film is because we don’t see the normal story line to a film. When people normally think of British Horror movies they think of; a dangerous/villian man‚ the ghost/monster like
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to Cyndy Hendershot in her Journal of Popular Film and Television article The Cold War Horror Film: Taboo and Transgression in The Bad Seed‚ The Fly‚ and Psycho‚ "Psycho represents Hitchcock’s most explicit connection to the horror genre and his most blatant attempt to use transgression as both content in a film and as a marketing strategy"(Hendershot 20). Although we can regard Psycho as a film of the horror genre Rear Window is more of a thriller because it’s plot elements are a little more light-hearted
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1920s and 30s the theme was was The Golden Age Of Horror‚ it was considered the finest era of genre. “Once the silent era had given to technological process we had a glut of incredible movies that paved the way for generations to come particularly in the field of monster movies” (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). In the 1920s and 30s the first theme was one of the best themes they have made. The theme for the 2000s was The Present Day‚ “The state of the horror industry s hotly contested. With the genre seemingly
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Stephen King the King of Horror and Mystery “Monsters are real‚ and ghosts are real too. They live inside us‚ and sometimes‚ they win.” This was said then none other than Stephen King. King is a bestselling author who has written many books that could make you stay awake at night. King has the ability to use the fear and curiosity in such a way that it is poetry. This is a tribute in the form of a biography to the great Stephen King‚ man who isn’t afraid of anything. Stephen Edwin King was born
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Kaitlin Sutherland 991247405 Cinema of Horror MEDA 13672 November 10‚ 2014 In 1978 John Carpenter changed the landscape of horror cinema with the release of his terrifying new film Halloween. The film follows a group of young females as they are stalked‚ tormented and inevitably killed by an escaped lunatic wearing a Halloween mask and wielding a knife. The film was revolutionary for the many themes and concepts it introduced‚ (including the concept of the final girl) things that have
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Erkal-1 Fatih Erkal 21301418 Eng 102-105 Sibel Evliyagil 27.02.2015 “Is fear a positive emotion? If yes‚ explain in what way. If no‚ explain its effects are and why they cannot be regarded as positive” Positivity of Fear for Human Beings Human beings‚ as a living and feeling creatures‚ live with their emotions and live with respect to their emotions as well. What is meant by "with respect to emotion" is that people usually make their choices according to their emotions throughout their lives. For
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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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