The story starts off with a young Englishman named Jonathan Harker. He travels to Eastern Europe in order to sell some property to Count Dracula. The antagonist is a reclusive but seemingly normal “man” from Transylvania. This section of the story takes place from the view of Harker‚ who decided to chronicle his adventures abroad for his fiancée‚ Mina Murray. As he travels to Count Dracula’s castle‚ Jonathan ignores the warnings that the locals give him about Dracula‚ but does accept a gift of a
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There’s this uninspiring and unwarranted obsession with keeping classic monsters alive on the big screen – at least in some way‚ shape‚ or form. Dracula lives on in various reincarnations‚ like in the tolerable animated Hotel Transylvania (Adam Sandler) series‚ and the recent live-action flick‚ Dracula Untold (Luke Wilson) Similarly‚ Frankenstein also continues to be the centerpiece of silver screen productions – for better or worse. He‚ like Dracula‚ stars in Hotel Transylvania (Kevin James)
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The story and the show “Monsters on Maple Street” and “The Andy Griffith Show” have ways in which they are similar and different. Both stories similar conflicts but totally different complications. I felt emotions with both stories. I enjoyed watching both shows. While both stories have similar concepts there are many different aspects. Both these stories are similar in their setting‚ mood‚ and complications. Both shows were in black and white. I can infer both stories took place in the past
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ONE HELL OF A NIGHT is a supernatural horror script. It’s driven by the theme of survival. The goal for the heroine is clear and the stakes are life and death. The script uses some of the techniques that make for a successful horror tale‚ such as a contained setting (the lake house)‚ creepy noises‚ and spooky visuals‚ as well as tease attacks and gruesome murders. While there are definite strengths to the storytelling‚ the script would benefit from more development. Because there are so many similar
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Zombies are fictional undead creatures created through the reanimation of human corpses. Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore where a zombie is a dead body animated by magic. Modern depictions of zombies do not necessarily involve magic but invoke other methods such as viruses. Zombies have a complex literary heritage‚ with antecedents ranging from Richard Matheson and H. P. Lovecraft to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein drawing on European
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“The Walking Dead” News Update: Robert Kirkman Hints at Crossover with “Fear the Walking Dead”! After six seasons‚ AMC’s zombie series “The Walking Dead” has attained a cult status. And ever since the spin-off “Fear the Walking Dead” went on air in 2015‚ there have been talks of a crossover but the show creators always shot down the speculations. However‚ things seem to be changing now as Robert Kirkman has indicated at the possibility. He said that the crossover would be hard to put in place but
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In Bram’s Stoker’s Dracula (1897)‚ one of the main motifs present throughout the whole piece is Catholicism. Catholicism does not only appear as a motif but also as a major theme in the novel. On the books‚ Broker was known to be a Protestant‚ however after releasing his novel Dracula‚ he was considered of being “a closet Catholic cloaking his dangerous views in a relatively safe literary medium” (Starrs‚ D. Bruno). Even though the novel portrays Anti-Christian values and beliefs‚ Bram Stoker was
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Vladislav III‚ also known as Vlad the Impaler‚ was and still is one of the most savage‚ cruel people to date. He was the main inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Vlad used over forty-five methods of torture and invented fifteen. It has been estimated that he killed anywhere from 50‚000 to 500‚000 people. I chose Vlad because I wanted someone who was brutal‚ shocking‚ and had information that wasn’t hard to find. Vlad also has an interesting background in which he went from Turkish prison scum
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The Supernatural‚ a manifestation attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature (Literary Jewels)‚ examples of that would be ghosts‚ angels‚ and gigantic human sized bugs. The story containing supernatural elements may have a religious purpose‚ such the role of angels and demons in Islam‚ Judaism and Christianity; or the supernatural elements may portray notions about reality such as issues in social justice‚ discrimination‚ or alienation and the sense of belonging
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The psychology behind our fear of monsters is something Asma has been trying to understand for the better part of the last decade. In 2009‚ he published "On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears" followed by "Monster on the Brain: An Epistemology of Horror" in 2014. Both articles dig deep into the psychology behind why monsters create fear. In 2017‚ a couple of months after the next installment of Hollywood’s hit hybrid "Alien" and just two weeks before Halloween‚ Asma capitalized on
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