I have always been very intrigued by horror films. I can remember being as young as six or seven‚ watching The Exorcist‚ Texas Chainsaw Massacre‚ Jaws‚ The Omen‚ Carrie‚ and Halloween. These movies never really scared me‚ I was taught at a really young age that they were not real; they were just tricks of the movie world. My mom always told me they were real people dressed up‚ just like we did for Halloween. We would talk about how they created the special effects. Scary as it was‚ there was
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Sexuality Sex in the media Have you ever been in your car and the song Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke is being played on the radio? Why do our Disney Channel teenage idols turn to exploiting their selves in a sexual matter to better their careers? This is what sells in American society; this what sex in the media brings about. With the increase of technology in the past decade we are viewing and listening to more sexually explicit material then ever. With the mass media distinctively hiding sexual messages
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According to Fobes.com‚ "Sinister” was the number one horror film within the last five years and “…the most terrifying‚ disturbing‚ well-acted‚ perfectly paced horror film…” (Hughes‚ The Top 10 Horror Films Of The Last Five Years). There are two different categories of horror stories. The first category is fiction. This category was created to relate to the person reading‚ make it something they believe could happen to them. The second category is psychological. This category was created to get the
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THEATER‚ FILM‚ & TELEVISION In 1981‚ VCR sales rose 72% in 12 months. By 1989‚ 60 percent of American households with televisions received cable service. Huge or memorable movies of the decade included On Golden Pond‚ Tootsie‚ Arthur‚ Stephen Spielberg Movies like E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial‚ The Big Chill‚ Flashdance‚ Beverly Hills Cop‚ Out of Africa‚ Back to the Future‚ Cocoon‚ The Breakfast Club‚Platoon‚Star Trek‚ Good Morning Vietnam‚ Fatal Attraction‚ Rain Man‚ and Driving Miss Daisy
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As movies become more technologically enhanced‚ people are forgetting about the stories and books they are based on. More people should be reading the books the movies came from instead of waiting for the movie to be released in a local theater. Not only are books more substantial‚ but they can also become more entertaining than the movies themselves. Books keep a person’s mind going. A mind is filled with questions and as the wheels in your head are turning‚ your brain is being put to more use
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itself. Meta-horror is a horror that self-references itself in the movie‚ or a horror book. Another concept of meta-horror‚ is that the characters are going to know how the movie is going to play out‚ even if they don’t know or think that they are in the movie. In this paper‚ I will be discussing the two movies I watched in the metahorror genre‚ You’re Next by Adam Wingard and New Nightmare by Wes Craven. I will talk about two main points‚ the first being how the two movies show meta horror similarly
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originality in Hollywood isn’t something that is keeping a film from being considered great and is in fact helping make more profit for the movie industry. Sticking to familiar ideas can ensure Hollywood they will get the one thing they want: money. So why run the risk of losing money when they can remake a movie knowing they will profit from it? Whether it be a sequel‚ an adaptation of a book or television show‚ or the same exact movie shown in 3D‚ movie-goers seem to flock to plots and names they are
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The Horror is Not Seeing This Movie Little Shop of Horror‚ the movie that made me fall in love with musicals. Before watching this movie I thought of musicals as plays on film‚ with long drawn out singing segments you struggled not to nap during. In my eyes musicals weren’t even on the same level as regular movies with all of its high tech effects‚ fast paced plots and trendy soundtracks. The movie Little Shop of Horrors changed my narrow minded way of thinking into dare I say‚ a movie musical believer
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English 1 research paper 29 March 2013 Why people believe in ghosts. Lying in bed in the middle of the night while sleep eludes me‚ a noise breaks through the silence. Oh my God! What was that!? Maybe it was just my imagination‚ or maybe it was just the house settling. There it is again! I must be hearing things. I get cold and my body starts to shiver uncontrollably. I peek to where the sound comes from and I could swear I see something through the dark room; it appears even darker than the surrounding
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’Understanding movies’ was the most interesting class which I have ever taken. People expect many advantages from taking various classes. Some people want to take a sports class to have fun while other people like a science class to enlarge their knowledge. In my case‚ I could get both entertainment and knowledge form the movie class. Through the use of a couple of examples and specific explanation‚ I will demonstrate why I liked the movie class most. First‚ ’Understanding movies’ was enjoyable
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