...Horror BOO! Did that scare you? I wouldn’t think so, but I do think that you have been scared by some horror movies before. Horror movies have used a wide range of techniques to stand out amongst all of the other types of movies. There are quite a few horror movies and their style has changed throughout the years. Many things have changed except for the techniques used within them, and trust me there are quite a few, and all of these techniques can show why horror is so much more different than other genres. Each era of horror has had a different way of expressing itself. There were many subgenres. Horror had started off as any normal movie genre should, literature. Things like Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By this time, the genre...
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...tsunami wave that not only became highest grossing horror film in the country, but also shuddered Taiwanese, Korean, Hong Kong film markets. Following years many publications included it to the numerous symbolic "top 10 most scary films" lists. And when Steven Spielberg bought the rights to make the Hollywood remake it was seen as official evidence that Japanese horror cinema became new trendsetter in this genre and gained cult status in the West. Nowadays with numerous follow-ups within the Ring franchise and triggered a trend of Western remakes "Ring" is viewed as exemplary illustrative Asian horror movie. I will argue that the wide success of the movie is caused not by its deep cultural ties with Japanese cinema and Japanese horror movies in particular, but because on the contrary "Ring" has little to do with its traditional background. Hideo Nakata deliberately cut off all the cultural traces in order to make cinematic language of the movie universal and cosmopolitan thus giving a way for its intercultural translation and to be easily replicated. In order to do it first I will analyze different Japanese merchandizing strategies and study the film as a media product. Second, I will briefly overlook history and main stylistic traits of Japanese horror movie genre. In my general overlook on Japanese horror cinema, I will focus on two main horror film sub-genres kaidan and ero guro and will give few examples of classical horror films. Then, I will analyze plot and themes of the...
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...is the general mopery and overall predictability of those ever-staggering creatures. They lurch. They snarl. They sniff the air for the scent of human flesh. They pounce and gnaw. They pound windows and doors, and express frustration when confronted with 10-foot-high cyclone fences. And then they get shot in the head and die. That's pretty much it. We almost never get inside the rotted mind of the zombie or see things from the zombie point of view. They're forever penned in as the Big Metaphor. One of the many exhilarating pleasures of "Warm Bodies" is the flipping of that script. This is a bloody fresh twist on the most popular horror genre of this century, with none-too-subtle echoes of a certain star-crossed romance that harks back to a certain bard who placed a certain young Romeo under a certain balcony. I kinda love this movie. "Warm Bodies" is a well-paced, nicely directed, post-apocalyptic love story with a terrific sense of humor and the, um, guts to be unabashedly romantic and unapologetically optimistic. Looking a little like a boy-band heartthrob who won first place at a Hollywood Halloween party thanks to a a professional makeup job and an...
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... Poetry, Drama, and Writing. There will have to be many tough decisions made on selections of literature that should be in the next edition. I would like to offer you a suggestion on a piece that I find very interesting and should be used in the next edition. That is a poem by Wilfred Owen “Dulce et Decorum Est.” I consider myself to be a bit of a war buff, and this poem gives you the feeling that you are there in the trenches with the men. Wilfred Owen is able to give you a first person point of view of war through his poem. Owen uses great visual imagery on what life is like during trench warfare to help you feel like you are there beside him during the horrors of war. I beg of you to include Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” in the next edition! Throughout the poem Owen uses visual imagery to get his message of the horrors of war through. In An Introduction, to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing you define visual imagery as “Often this experience is a sight . . .” (751). When reading “Dulce et Decorum Est” Owen gives the ability to visualize what is going on constantly throughout the poem. Owen is able to use visual imagery to show you the shape the men are in during the battle and what chaos goes on during a gas attack. Owen also uses visual imagery about the nightmares he deals with after the war. Many poems leave a lot to be interpreted, but Owen uses visual imagery to eliminate interpretation and give exactly what is happening. Through visual imagery Owen describes a...
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...Will Raspberry and her mother ever have a better? Raspberry mother tries to keep the neighborhood quiet and clean. Seems like she can’t with her lousy no good teenager neighbors, one of the neighbors shiketa almost killed her mother by hitting her in the head with a metal pipe. Raspberry is having trouble with a lot of stuff going on in her life like almost losing her best friend Zora over money she took . Then her drug addicted dad comes back in her life when she doesn't want him to. She still has to deal with Shiketa sister coming after them. Raspberry accomplished her dream by the help and support from her Mother , Friends, and Neighbor. Her mother never gave up on them when they were having tough times, Raspberry Mother got another job...
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...What is Horror Fiction? ------------------------------------------------- Before reading the text: ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- - How would you define Horror? --------------------------------------------------------------- From: The Horror Writers Association. (http://www.horror.org/horror-is.htm) That's a difficult question. In recent years the very term has become misleading. If you tell people you write horror fiction, the image that immediately pops into their minds is one of Freddy Krueger or maybe Michael Myers, while you were hoping for Shelley's Frankenstein or Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The popularity of the modern horror film, with its endless scenes of blood and gore, has eclipsed the reality of horror fiction. When you add to that a comprehension of how horror evolved as both a marketing category and a publishing niche during the late eighties -- horror's boom time -- it's easy to understand why answering the question of what today's horror fiction actually is has become so difficult. But let's give it a try, shall we? Webster's Collegiate Dictionary gives the primary definition of horror as "a painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay." It stands to reason then that "horror fiction" is fiction that elicits those emotions in the reader. If we accept this definition, then horror can deal with the mundane or the supernatural, with the fantastic or the normal. It doesn't...
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...defined as the overall point of view of a movie or the "placing on stage". In other words, it refers to the combined experience of what the viewers hear, see and think of when they watch a movie. The mise en scene of a movie catches the attention of the viewers’ moods as much as lighting, props sounds, and smells do. It alerts their emotional response system to a real-life setting, which is conveyed in the movie. Mise en scene has two significant visual components: design and composition. Design creates the look and overall feeling of the lighting, setting(s), decor, and actors. Composition refers to the structure, distribution, equilibrium, and the relationship between the actors and the matter around them and within their environment. The use of these elements within the movie frame provide the audience with the general meaning of the movie scene. Mise en scene also plays an important role in the viewers’ response to a movie. It affects the viewers’ experience of views, sounds, contrast and color. Some aspects of mise en scene can happen on a rare occasion; whether through an act of mother nature or by accident. For example: rain, snow, an actor improvising and ignoring the script, or an actor getting injured. Mise en scene happens in movies because the movie directors planned it before the shooting of the scenes of the movie. Mise en scene can and is sometimes used to distinguish a director’s movie work from another director's. In addition...
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...Ms2 report Media studies Rohan Taneja The task My brief was to create a 2-3 minute opening sequence for a horror film and produce a storyboard. I decided about doing a horror film sequence because I love watching horror films due to the thrill it gives me. Therefore the chance to make a part of a horror film was an opportunity and challenge which I wanted to take on. My assignment implicated me to research my target audience, creating a storyboard and producing the opening sequence. I set out to make an opening sequence that would create tension for the audience and grip them to watch the whole movie to find out what happens next. For the sub-genre, I did my research on the internet and looked at various different websites including Internet Movie Database (IMDB) and the British board of film classification (BBFC). I also looked at movie reviews on BBC and several newspaper websites which included the Guardian and The Times. I also researched into the age ratings of the film. My research showed that the most popular sub genres were action horror, science fiction horror and slasher horror. I already knew from experience as an avid film watcher that an opening sequence needs to capture its target audience and make them want to see the whole movie. Watching these films like ATM (2012), Scream (1997) and Texas Chainsaw massacre (2003) gave me an excellent understanding of the conventions of opening sequences and the use of mise-en-scene elements. In these movies the opening...
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...Horror Movie Haven When watching a horror movie one can escape their everyday life, and even go as far as to imagine themselves as the hero of the film. But that also means that one can imagine themselves as the antagonist of the film. “Why We Crave Horror Movies” is an article in which the author, Stephen King states his position on horror films. Stephen King points out that while some individuals watch horror movies because they are entertaining, horror movies may also be used to help suppress one’s psychopathic tendencies by feeding their craving for real murder. I agree with Stephen King one hundred percent. Not only are horror movies the most entertaining type of films to watch, but society can also use horror films as a therapeutic tool to help suppress their homicidal feelings. In the second paragraph of the article Steven King states “When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare” (Par. 2). Daring the nightmare to me is only looking for an entertaining situation that I am not normally accustomed to, whether it’s a thrill or just plain terrifying. Horror movies are by far the most entertaining types of films to watch. Whether it’s Children of the Corn or the Blair Witch Project I am always ready to watch a good horror movie because they always leave me satisfied. The suspense, the gore, and the various types of villains in these movies are all reasons why horror movies entertain...
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...A famous scene from one of the first notable horror films, Nosferatu (1922) Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears. Horror films often feature scenes that startle the viewer; the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Thus they may overlap with the fantasy, supernatural, and thriller genres.[1] Horror films often deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world. Prevalent elements include ghosts, aliens, vampires, werewolves, curses, satanism, demons, gore, torture, vicious animals, monsters, zombies, cannibals, and serial killers. Conversely, movies about the supernatural are not necessarily always horrific.[2] Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 1890s–1920s 1.2 1930s–1940s 1.3 1950s–1960s 1.4 1970s–1980s 1.5 1990s 1.6 2000s 2 Sub-genres 3 Influences 3.1 Influences on society 3.2 Influences internationally 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links [edit]History [edit]1890s–1920s See also: List of horror films of the 1890s, List of horror films of the 1900s, List of horror films of the 1910s, and List of horror films of the 1920s Lon Chaney, Sr. in The Phantom of the Opera The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts...
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...Stephen King, a mastermind of the horror genre has taken the literature and film industry by storm from hit movies such as “The Shining” and successful novels such as “Carrie”. Stephen King has continuously illustrated that when it comes to horror there isn’t only one way to present a horrific story. In Stephen King’s essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies” he presents several rational explanations about why we love horror movies, even though it puts a peculiar fear in viewers. King utilizes persuasive techniques such as pathos and logos, as well as comparisons to real life events to draw connections between horror and other areas of entertainment which in the end illustrates why movie enthusiasts crave horror. Stephen King, born in Portland, Maine, has had to deal with change throughout his lifetime. As a young child his father, Donald King, departed the family leaving young King, brother David, and his mother Nellie Ruth behind. Soon after the departure they moved to Connecticut only to return to Maine. A traumatic event, only claimed to be true by King’s family, occurred involving a gruesome death of his friend. King doesn’t recall the train accident but it can be seen that witnessing something this gruesome can bring out a living horror in an individual. This event could be what drives...
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...thriller, whilst also touching on horror at points (the murders). The Avengers Assemble has a hybrid genre of sci-fi, action and fantasy. I will be looking at the parts of these movies that are typical of the genres that they are categorised in. The first text I will explore is Sightseers. In black comedies and crime, the iconography and location is often rural countryside; so Sightseers is challenging the conventions of the crime genre – often held in places associated more with ‘gangsters’, e.g. council estates, rougher areas (perhaps more populated) as opposed to the peaceful nature of the countryside. The choice of a caravan park adds a feeling of tranquillity and isn't an immediate location that springs to mind when it comes to thinking about the crime genre - so Ben Wheatley, the director, who has directed black comedies in the past, will have wanted to challenge the conventions of these movies. The comedy aspect is explored within quite a few scenes, the jokey comments that Tina is making to her mum at the beginning of the movie (where she repeats 'mum' several times, which is becomes quite humorous). The sort of humour used does challenge the conventions of a comedy as there are no out and out jokes, but some of the shots used such as Tina throwing food inside a bears mouth create a shock factor, that also makes you laugh - this is another way in which Ben Wheatley has challenged the conventions. Black comedy and the touches of horror are brought in through the various...
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...and I Am Legend (2007) from the horror genre then The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) and Meet The Parents (2000) from the comedy genre. I have found a lot of information on how to watch a movie just by looking at certain elements to tell you if the movie is going to be great or have a plat that will make you want to see more of it. In The 40-Year-Old Virgin the lighting was a high-key lighting and hard lighting it was to make the movie seem cheerful and funny. Also I felt like the movie Meet The Parents used the same lighting. With the camerawork in has noticed that in both of these films in the comedy genre they have used all three of the lens; wide-angle, normal, and telephoto. But used the normal lens a little more throughout the movies. The camera was placed in short distance range and used the angles eye-level angle and high angle. The sound effect in these films are normal and natural sounds no outstanding music or sound effects added. As the filmmakers the artistic ending was great, it was a happy ending like expected. But the film meet the parents it has gave an image that is should have more to it, something else can happen and will still fit with the movie itself. These movies are in the horror genre the movies I Am Legend and The Nightmare On Elm Street have a lot of different setting and views from how the two comedy movies the 40 year old virgin and meet the parents. The comedy movies are also similar and all the film taking where the horror have their variance it most likely...
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...The renowned author, Stephen King, develops his argument on why people crave horror movies. Structurally, King first starts by examining the simple and obvious reasons, and transitions to analyze the deeper, harder to see reasons as to why horror movies are so captivating. First of all, King states the obvious reasons of why many people crave horror movies. King compares horror movies to roller coasters. He argues that we can ride this roller coaster and not be scared just like watching a horror movie. A roller coaster makes us scream at various parts of the ride such as when it plows through the bottom of the lake, similar to how horror movies can make us scream at different parts of the movie. He says that on the surface level, we watch horror movies for that level of fun. He also says that we go for the dare of it, to see how far it can push us, and that is what makes the experience so fun....
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...Movies People say that baseball is America's favorite past time, but I guarantee you know more people who have been to a movie theater than have attended a professional baseball game. Not all movies make it to the silver screen, some go straight to DVD, while others gross hundreds of millions of dollars. People go to the movies for several reasons, perhaps a first date or just hanging out with friends, whatever the reason is, you will most certainly be entertained. Ironically the fantasy of movies has a mystical way of making us feel genuine emotions. Whether it's a comedy, action, or horror movie, for a couple of hours people can forget about their real lives and exist in a world of make believe and fantasy. Over the course of my movie going career, the three categories that make for a movie worth paying to see are comedies, action, and horror films. In recent years, the most popular type of movie in theaters is comedies. A good can cheer up even the grumpiest of grumps. The most noticeable trait of a hit comedy is when you hear people repeating the one-liners for many months later. “Alrighty then” from Ace Ventura Pet Detective, was repeatedly uttered at middle schools across America in the mid nineties. Comedies are also great at cutting through that first date tension, you won't have to worry about making her laugh and you have something to talk about during the awkward silence moments. Other examples of great comedies that performed well in theaters include...
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