...to any slasher film. These conventions include: the killer, weapon, terrible place, victims/ final girl, and shock value. One of the most prominent films of the slasher genre is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) directed by Tobe Hooper. This cinematic performance clearly follows Carol Clover’s slasher...
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...In “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, Sherman Alexie makes human nature seem like the enemy in the poem. He talks about the Sand Creek Massacre, where Native Americans were killed by soldiers. ”Of Sand Creek where 105 Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children and 28 men were slaughtered by 700 heavily armed soldiers, led by Colonel Chivington and his Volunteers. Volunteers”. He relates this unpleasant clash to the story of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The story involves a man that is named Leatherface, in which he goes around mindlessly killing people with tools used to slaughter animals around his family farm, the main tool being a chainsaw. In the Sand Creek Massacre and in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, people were killed for no justifiable...
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...movies. One of these movies in particular is the classic Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2. This movie displays the ideas of these theorists in a variety of ways. Stephen King discusses the inner self in his essay Why We Crave...
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...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 creates a huge tension which grips the audience in a very short time. The music used is atmospheric which builds adrenaline and gets the heart pumping. The pace of the opening sequence changes by starting slow to introduce the characters and then speeding up to show more of the action. The killer is then introduced and the action starts. In reference to Todorov’s Narrative theory, the...
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...Most are unaware of the kinds of family matters they can have at home. This is thoroughly brought to light in the case of the Winslow family, The family consists of a group involved in incredibly questionable home behavior. The demise of several family members occurred on the fateful day on May 5, 2005. The Winslow children's distant cousin, Steve Urkel, walked into the Winslow's house unannounced as usual. In the foyer, he bent backwards with his stomach facing upwards and his hands and feet touching the ground, and crawled like a spider upstairs to Laura's room. He knocked on the door with his head and Laura Winslow came out naked expecting Richie (her direct cousin) to be there. She screamed when she saw Steve poised like a spider. Steve responded by quickly standing upright like a toothpick, unzipped, and pulled out his fun sized Almond Joy candy bar. Immediately, he tried to feed it to one of Laura's mouths. To Steve's displeasure, Richie came around the hallway corner driving by in his tricycle and took a bite out of Steve's candy bar before Laura even had a chance to. Out of embarrassment and sheer desperation, Steve tried to gain a bloody entrance to Richie's back door. Moments later, a jealous Waldo (a friend of Laura's brother, who had been spying on her long before Steve arrived) jumped out of the wall, palmed Steve's head, and smashed it into the wall. After that, he grabbed Richie by the legs and used him like a bat to severely beat Steve to death with. It did not...
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...For my practical production I have created a 3 minute opening sequence and a 3 page magazine article which includes the front page for my film which is called Deception. My opening sequence is about a young girl who wakes up in her home to be haunted by something supernatural. In the brief you had certain topics you could pick to do your production on and I picked the secret because it sounded like it was something to do with horror so I picked it as I was planning to do a production which was based on something like dark drama or horror. In addition to this I chose to do a magazine article to promote my movie. The genre for my opening sequence is horror based. In my opening sequence there are a number of conventions that would signify that it is a horror related movie. First off the film title “Deception” would reveal straight away to my audience that my film is somewhat horror related because it is quite a typical horror film name (one word which is often dark, e.g. insidious, saw…). The film also has a dark atmosphere which helps the target audience identify the genre. The film is uncomfortable throughout which is effective because you want the audience to feel on edge and to anticipate what is going to happen next. My movie is horror so the audience type for my independent film is simply people who like horror films or dark films. My production suits the independent film genre because compared to a big blockbuster film it wasn’t expensive too shoot (it cost me nothing) and...
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...topic that not very many people are educated about? Our culture has produced its own version of cannibalism that will be stuck in our heads forever. Using movies to get across an idea that will make people fear this topic for a life time. Leaving us not even knowing there has been an opinion formed on the topic of cannibalism. While growing up the huge horror movie idea that trended was serial killers that feed on their pray. They used people like Ed Gien (a real life serial killer/ cannibal that killed women for their body parts in the late 1950’s) to make over dramatized movies about killers to set fear. Ed Gien has been the inspiration of many Hollywood favorites. His “life story” has been formed into movies like Pyscho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and even a TV show called Bates Motel, but none of these even came close to telling the true story on what actually happened to Ed’s victims in the late 1950’s. There have been many other famous killers that made their way to the big screen. The inaccurate stories Hollywood has created have been haunting children and adults for a century’s, making most viewers scared to walk alone at night. Horror was not the only genre to take part of this cannibalism action. ...
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...owners were forced to close up shop for good. But there still record stores out there and when you find one it is like a diamond in the coal. I arrived \ on a less then pleasant day the weather was cold and rainy so before I left the safety of my car I turned my collar up to face the cold and made a bee line to the store so fast it would but Usain Bolt to shame. When I walked in the store I was greeted by the smell of coffee and sound of The Rolling Stones song Monkey Man playing over the store speakers with the owner of the store john singing along to the song and throwing his arms up like a monkey. As soon as you walk into the store your face to face with a giant rack of used DVDs ranging from Driving Miss Daisy to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre I was immediately welcomed by john who sitting down in front of this cash register with a sign on it that read “No Personal Check$” behind him was a giant poster of Frank Zappa which seemed like one of his most prized positions john had on a tie dyed rolling stones shirt john had looked tried and he seemed to be discomfort later I found out he looked that way due to having MS. Before john and I stared talking I asked if we could take a walk around the store john told me that he is not able to “move very well...
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...November 16, 1957. He would kill women to get their skin because he was so obsessed with his mother. When they caught him he went to trial but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. They tested him to see if he was sane or not sane. Once the tests were finished they found that he was mentally ill. They diagnosed him as schizophrenic, a sexual psychopath, and emotionally impaired. They sent him to a mental hospital for 10 months. After that they found him as mentally stable to stand trial and they sentenced him to life in prison and classified it as homicide. Ed Gein died on July 26, 1984 of natural causes. And after all of this happened his behavior inspired 3 famous movies at that time. He inspired the movies Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. None of these movies are what actually happened in Plainfield, Wisconsin....
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...At a time when the stalker movie had been exploited to all ends and the image of mute, staggering, vicious killers had been etched into society’s consciousness to the point of exhaustion, a new kid entered the block. The year was 1984 and it was time for a new villain to enter into the horror genre. A villain that was agile, intelligent, almost inviolable yet viscous, and by all means deadly. A Nightmare on Elm Street introduced the distinctive presence of Fred Krueger to the horror industry and to the audience. Freddy Krueger took the center stage and with him a new era of horror films began. This horribly scarred man who wore a ragged slouch hat, dirty red-and-green striped sweater, and a glove outfitted with knives at the fingers reinvented the stalker genre like no other film had. Fred Krueger breathed new life into the dying horror genre of the early 1980’s. Horror films are designed to frighten the audience and engage them in their worst fears, while captivating and entertaining at the same time. Horror films often center on the darker side of life, on what is forbidden and strange. These films play with society’s fears, its nightmare’s and vulnerability, the terror of the unknown, the fear of death, the loss of identity, and the fear of sexuality. Horror films are generally set in spooky old mansions, fog-ridden areas, or dark locales with unknown human, supernatural or grotesque creatures lurking about. These creatures can range from vampires, madmen, devils, unfriendly...
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...The Descent The Descent (2005) is a horror film upon first appearances directed by Neil Marshall, who had previously had little work with the genre besides the 2002 film, Dog Soldiers. It falls under several categories in terms of subgenre; drama, action-adventure, horror, slasher and most importantly Urbanioa. It was built upon a relatively small budget of £3,500,000, but succeeded spectacularly with the box office and critics, grossing £34,400,00+ worldwide. The plot of the film is generally simple and generic of the Urbanioa genre, and can be summed up clearly. The main character, Sarah, suffers a tragic loss of her family in the introduction of the film that clearly impairs her mentally. One year later, her friends Beth, Rebecca, Sam and Holly, lead by Juno, to try and repair and return the group to its previous state by first aiding Sarah. They do this buy returning to what they love: sporting, and on this expedition, caving. When they reach a mark of about 3 kilometers underground, however, a rock collapses and blocks the access tunnel, trapping the group inside the cave. With limited supplies, they try to find a way out, but sooner they face an unknown and savage breed of predators. The Urbanioa genre is a recent phenomenon that deals with the conflict of clashing themes; the past and present/nature and the man-made society. Generically it follows a group or family of modern middle class white characters, each of which fulfilling a trope of sorts. They are usually...
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...Ed Gein Travis S. Franklin Upper Iowa University Ed Gein Edward Theodore Gein born on August 27th, 1906 was an American murderer and a body snatcher. Ed was the son of George and Augusta Gein, born in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His parents had two children, both boys, the older named Henry George Gein and the younger named Edward Theodore Gein. Ed’s parents had a horrible marriage, one where Augusta loathed her husband, but refused to get a divorce because of their family’s strong religious beliefs. Gein’s mother ran a small grocery store and later bought a farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin. Augusta’s reasoning on moving the family to the outskirts of the small town was to prevent outsiders from influencing her children. Augusta had kept her children very sheltered, and Ed was only allowed to leave the farm to go to school. Other than going to school, Ed mostly spent his every waking moment working on the farm doing chores, which kept him from making friends as a child. Even when Ed attempted to try and make friends his mother would punish him for doing so. Ed became very shy and an easy target for bullies. His mother took it upon herself to influence her boys about the wickedness of the world. She had told them that all women, herself not included, were prostitutes and were tools of the devil. Throughout the boys’ childhood, Augusta was convinced that they would grow up to be a failure like their father, and abused them frequently. The brothers only had each other...
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...Running Head: Analysis of 1960s gendered media norms from the perspective of the 1960s and 2000s Analysis of 1960s gendered media norms from the perspective of the 1960s and 2000s Univers Communications 30 Gendered film norms from the 1960s and 2000s: An Introduction From its most primitive years, popular films have discussed the part of gendered norms both on screen and as viewers. Actually, emphasizing its significance to different account and standard patterns, violence against women has been conceptualized as immanent in typical Hollywood and all over more recent popular cinema. Various feminist film theorists have judged conventional filmmaking as comprised of creation and display practices imbricate in a certain set of social and political power relationships. In the procedure, these writers have proposed complicated expression of the relationships between filmic representations and cinema's place in society. The mainstream feminist film theory that grew in the 1970s depended on the idea of cinematic equipment by the help of which film technologies interrelated with the ideological determinants of the cinematic associations. In her work, most remarkably the essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," (1975) Laura Mulvey stressed the problem of the female aspects in classical Hollywood and, particularly, in films of Josef von Sternberg and Alfred Hitchcock. Female spectators are presented with a choice to make out with either a male character or secondary...
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...Murders on the Block Qwan Martinez is a fugitive who is on the run after just breaking out of institution with some friends who left him by himself. He has lived in Texas since he was born but now that he has nowhere to go he has decided to go back to Mexico to find his brothers. Qwan will have to get through many things. It is the day that everyone around the world gets to do whatever they want illegal or not. They don’t get in trouble at all no matter what because it’s like a free to do whatever day. Starting next year it will only go on for twelve to twenty-four hours but since it’s the first time ever it will go on for 3 days straight and will be called Freedom Day. I know I can’t wait to see how this will plan out because the new and improved president thought...
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...possession. The main reason this trend became as popular as it was, was because of the brilliant movies The Exorcist and The Omen. Another inspiration to the movies of this generation would be the famous author Stephen King. He contributed to the horror genre with his enticing scary tales, which a handful got movie adaptations of. Some of the earlier films would include The Shining and Carrie, with both depicting supernatural phenomenons (Kantilaftis). Horror would soon verge into a fan favorite sub genre called the slasher film. They were most popular throughout the 1980s and produced many great films with lots of sequels (Burton). Great examples of this would include: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The main plot through each of these movies revolves around a killer chasing and killing each of their victims one by one in many creative ways (Kantilaftis). My favorite way that I have seen somebody die in one of these films would be in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors where Freddy Krueger manipulates a sleeping teenager like a marionette and forces them off of a building to their death, and if that’s not creative then I don’t know what is. After slasher films, horror as a whole would delve into unfamiliar territory and it honestly wasn’t pretty. Horror was beginning to implement computer-generated images into their movies and it was lackluster at best (Kantilaftis). Of course the technology at the time wasn’t as advanced...
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