...Robert Wise’s The Haunting has been one of the most haunted house films ever produced.I've seen this film with my classmates during my english class. This film is a black and white picture. The picture was once the most fearful film in the early 60’s. This film takes place in New England, in a big haunted mansion. Dr. Markway, does research to prove the existence of ghosts, at the Hill House, a large mansion with a history of violent death. Luke, who stands to inherit the house, Theodora and Eleanor, with psychic abilities make her feel somehow there are spirits around the old mansion. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, and Rosalie Crutchley. The Haunting is a story about Eleanor Lance (Julie Harris), a lonely woman...
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...CHAPTER FIVE Return of the Blue Ghoul Early the next evening, Dad raced away from the tiny country cottages, The Bank of Confidential Secrets, and The Hush-Hush Moon, where folks gathered to gossip and eat. We rolled to the highway and into the hills, climbing up-and-down to a single-story, stucco home situated in a narrow stream-carved ravine. There was no time for second thoughts or long good-byes. We were on the clock. So, Dad wished us luck, and we headed up the steps to the terrace. Twist knocked on the door and we waited . . . and waited. “Maybe Miss MacBride stepped out.” Seth grinned. “Hot date.” “Whatever,” I said. “She’s here. She’s just slow.” I leaned against the railings and stared at the broad expanse of lawn blooming...
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...Desperately I tried to orient myself in the mess of trees and vegetation, maybe if I called out, my mom would hear me and call back. Maybe the dogs back at the house would bark like they normally do when they heard somebody. I quickly scolded myself, yelling would more than likely attract the beasts and the chances of me being heard from the house were very slim. That's when I heard the sound again, haunting and hollow and very close. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a streak of movement in the foliage followed by another howl and then another and another untill there was a chorus. I was being stalked. Thinking fast I figured I had accidentally run into their pack. I decided that the best course of action would be to go further into the forest and hopefully move around their group, maybe if I wasnt a threat in their territory they would leave me alone. Slowly, I walked up the hill but I could still hear their howls around me watching and waiting. Resolution and Conclusion I can't remember how long I walked or how long they stayed watching ,but it wasn't until I found the dirt road that we'd used to get to our house, did I realize they were gone. Walking back home I came to another realization, somehow when I was walking I had back tracked past my house and had walked farther in to the forest when I had gotten lost. When the house came into sight I brushed off my jeans and looked back at the autumn hued forest. That place had taught me how to survive, and my encounter with the coyotes...
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...“The Lottery” by saying that is a sign that they, at least, understood the story. During another interview Jackson jokingly described herself as a practicing witch. Regardless of what motivated her to write, writing was always her passion. At the age of twelve she won her first poetry prize, and throughout high she kept diary where she frequently wrote. She attended Rochester University after high school, but dropped out shortly after. It was said, that she left due to mental depression, which may explain her gothic style. A few years later she finished school at Syracuse University, where she met her husband Edgar Hyman who was an American literary critic. Shirley went on to publish many other classic horror stories such as “The Haunting of the Hill House” which was later...
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...She has been a Washington resident for many years where she lives with long time Washington journalist and husband Jerry and their four cats. In her free time she loves to take photographs particularly of nature and animals, She has asserted that there is nothing more magical than capturing the slant of light in a nice setting, and if she could she would do that the whole day. The Heat of the Moon the first novel of the series published in 2006 introduces Rachel Goddard the protagonist of the series. Rachel is veterinarian that has of late come to believe that her psychologist mother who has controlling tendencies may be hiding some terrible family secret from her and her sister. What follows is a battle of wills that culminates in a haunting secrets that Rachel has to live with throughout the course of the series. From the second novel onwards, Rachel moves to Blue Ridge Mountains to the town of McLean, Virginia. The richer setting makes for some very intriguing narratives and characters in the series. Rachel tries to start a new life for herself in the beautiful mountain scenery away from her controlling mother and the horrible secret that came to light. However try as she may, running away from her past is futile as it always follows her wherever she goes. She enters into a relationship with Deputy Tom Bridger from the second novel onwards and their relationship makes for an interesting subplot to the mysteries that they love together. The Rachel Goddard mysteries tackle...
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...A Critical Assessment of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson, author of “The Lottery”, was born in San Francisco in 1919, but moved to Rochester, New York when she was a teenager. She later attended the University of Rochester, but due to a bought severe depression, which would plague her throughout her entire life, she had to drop out of school. Jackson later graduated from Syracuse University, and soon moved with her husband. Stanley Edgar Hyman, to Bennington, Vermont. While there she devoted herself to writing a fixed amount of words each day. Pieces she wrote varied from novels, The Road Through the Wall, various psychological thrillers such as Hangsaman, The Haunting of Hill House, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and many articles for various magazines including Good House Keeping, generally about the difficulty of housekeeping and raising 4 children. Jackson claims that her motivation for writing the magazine articles was for the money they provided. “The Lottery” was published in The New Yorker in 1948, and that specific issue of the magazine was very quickly sold out. When Jackson first sent the story to the publisher, Harold Ross, he wasn’t exactly sure what the story was about nor what the meaning was. He called Jackson and asked if she had anything to tell the readers if they were to call up to the magazine asking questions about the story, and she simply responded with “No.” To her it was simply a story that she has written. When asked about...
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...my phone on and letting the pretty creature lead me down the hill behind the work building, where the employees park their cars. I’ve never gone down this hill because it was pretty steep, so I never did see this lake until now. The lake gave me an eerie feeling. One that I couldn’t shake off. I remember during work someone was telling why her day had started off so terribly “My brief case slipped down that hill like it was on ice!” I flashed my phone around the lake, trying to get a good glimpse of it. I suddenly shouted I wasn’t sure what I just saw, but I know I saw it. It was a man lying dead next to the lake. I ran up the hill trying not to scream in fear of the murderer still being there. The next day I called the police still scarred from what I had seen yesterday. “Hello, what is your emergency?” I was silent for a moment, trying to make the decision if I should tell them or not. I hung up. I had the urge to figure it out on my own, this sounds like a bad idea. But that’s because it is. I put my coat on and ran out the door racing off to my car, hoping that no one had gone down that hill to discover what I had saw. I have always lived in this little run down city ever since my mother left me. Everything here was built in 60s through the 90s, all rusty and falling into themselves. I believe that the population may be around twelvethousand. Once getting there I ran down that hill as fast as I could. The body was gone. But there were no police cars...
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...documented that ghosts are real but many people think they are just people’s illusions. Ghost is a popular topic throughout the millennium. They have appeared in numerous works and art forms, from the play “Macbeth” by Shakespeare to the Christian Bible and even some folk ghost stories have been released. The existence of ghosts was still a big mystery of mankind over hundreds of years. Some people believe in ghosts while others do not. To convince people of the existence of ghosts, there are several stories that can be told. One of them is the United States White House’s haunted story. The White House, where the United States President lives and work, has long been considered as the worst haunted place in that country. Harry Truman, America’s 33rd president, had affirmed that the White House has a ghost. The ghost, or soul, which was seen most often hiding around the White House, is that of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. Stephen Wagner found the following: Eleanor Roosevelt once stated she believed she felt the presence of Lincoln watching her as she worked in the Lincoln bedroom. Also during the Roosevelt administration, a...
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... 2015 “The woman in black” By Susan Hill “The Woman in Black” was first published in 1983 and has gone on to have a remarkable life over the following decades, in various paperback incarnations. It consists of twelve chapters. When the book opens, Arthur Kipps is sharing some fascinating thoughts about how he's always been affected by the weather. He describes how he came to live at Monk's Piece and stumbled across it while out on a ride with his employer, Mr. Bentley. Arthur is a solicitor and has worked with Mr. Bentley for many years. Now he's married to a woman named Esmé and lives in Monk's Piece with her four children from a previous marriage; they have been happily settled for fourteen years. It's Christmas Eve and Arthur is at home with Esmé and her children when the boys begin telling ghost stories. Arthur tries to be cool with it, but he's uneasy. When Edmund asks him to join in, he pretty much leaves in a huff and goes to walk outside. Eventually he rejoins the party, but not before deciding to write down the story of what happened to him when he went to Crythin Gifford so many years ago. And now the real story begins. It's November. Twenty-three year old solicitor Arthur Kipps is going on a business trip for his boss, Mr. Bentley. He's headed to the home of recently deceased Alice Drablow to sort out her affairs and attend her funeral. Alice lived on a distant estate called Eel Marsh House outside the town of the unpleasantly named Crythin...
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...sameness, which characterises the familiar desert of the poet and of the annual exhibitions--a desert all level yellow expanse, most bilious in its colouring, and relieved by but four allowable academy properties, a palm-tree, a camel, a sphinx, and a pyramid. For foreground, throw in a sheikh in appropriate drapery; for background, a sky-line and a bleaching skeleton; stir and mix, and your picture is finished. Most practical deserts one comes across in travelling, however, are a great deal less simple and theatrical than that; rock preponderates over sand in their composition, and inequalities of surface are often the rule rather than the exception. There is reason to believe, indeed, that the artistic conception of the common or Burlington House desert has been unduly influenced for evil by the accessibility and the poetic adjuncts of the Egyptian sand-waste, which, being situated in a great alluvial river valley is really flat, and, being the most familiar, has therefore distorted to its own shape the mental picture of all its kind elsewhere. But most deserts of actual nature are not all flat, nor all sandy; they present a considerable diversity and variety of surface, and their rocks are often unpleasantly obtrusive to the tender feet of the pedestrian traveller. A desert, in fact, is only a place where the weather is always and uniformly fine. The sand is there merely as what the logicians call, in their cheerful way, 'a separable accident'; the essential of a desert, as such...
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...Feelgood album Nikki moved out of Van Nuys and into Hidden Hills. He would seclude himself from the outside world for months at a time and ended up losing complete contact with reality. He then decided to see a psychiatrist and told him, “life on drugs was better than this.” (Sixx 397) and then got diagnosed as clinically depressed and chemically imbalanced. They prescribed him an anti-depressant called Prozac and he finally began to feel comfortable in his own skin without being high. So then he went to Canada to record Dr. Feelgood with Bob Rock while staying sober the entire time. When he finished the album he went back to L.A.; and the drugs. He went on tour for the album he had just finished in Russia and played his first ever show sober. Brandi Brandt and Nikki got married in 1989, in Hawiia. Shortly...
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...This paper will attempt to describe his life and poetry in a way that does justice to the path he chose. He was a man who grew up impoverished, who wrote from his experiences, and who tried to lift his fellow men above life’s trivialities. These are the points to be discussed on these pages. To know the essence of Walter Whitman, you would have to understand the heart of his writing. For he is in his pen. Walter Whitman was born in West Hills, Long Island, New York, on May 31, 1819 . He did not have much opportunity for education in his early life. His parents were mostly poor and illiterate- his father a laborer, while his mother was a devout Quaker. Whitman was one of nine children and little is known about his youth except that two of his siblings were imbeciles. No wonder he demonstrated such an insight for life in his poems. In 1830, at the age of eleven, he worked as an office boy for a lawyer, where he learned the printing trade. Whitman would soon take up teaching at various schools in Long Island. He also engaged in carpentry and house building while he edited newspapers. His early years seemed to show an active interest in working with the public. Whitman at one time accepted a job with a New Orleans...
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...The Creepy Night By Bling Dog The night was cold and windy. The moon was a full moon tonight. The trees looked haunted and scary with their big shadows. The sky was completely pitch black. There was a haunted house. It had a purplish-blackish roof. The house was painted completely pitch black. The door was an indigo color. The lights were out, but the chimney was puffing out black puffy smoke. On the roof there were some very scary looking bats. They even looked real. On the front door there was a skeleton, and it kept on repeating, "Don't enter! Save Your Soul!" There were vines and plants growing over the haunted house. On a windowsill there was even a fake Chucky. When I started walking up to the door I felt like I was going to explode! I was so freaked out. I started sweating and started to shake. I was there, all alone. I wanted to scream, but it wouldn't come out. I was getting more freaked out by every step. I actually felt like I should turn back and run. But, the haunted house made me feel sort of drawn to it. A bat flew overhead and shrieked "eek!" I went to the doorknob and reached for it. It felt slimy and gooey. I looked and saw it had red stuff on it. I took the red stuff off my hand and then the doorknob. I felt the doorknob and it felt like soft wood. It was a dark maroon color and looked big compared to my little hand. When I opened the door it creaked louder and louder until I finally opened it the whole way. In the inside I smelled something burning...
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...The most renowned filmmaker of his era, Martin Scorsese virtually defined the state of modern American cinema during the nineteen seventies and eighties. A consummate storyteller and visual stylist who lived and breathed movies, he won fame translating his passion and energy into a brand of filmmaking that crackled with kinetic excitement. Working well outside of the mainstream, Scorsese nevertheless emerged in the seventies as a towering figure throughout the industry, achieving the kind of fame and universal recognition typically reserved for more commercially successful talents. A tireless supporter of film preservation, "Scorsese has worked to bridge the gap between cinema's history and future like no other director." (Rottentomatoes.com) Channeling the lessons of his inspirations primarily classic Hollywood, the French New Wave, and the New York underground movement of the early nineteen sixties into an extraordinarily personal and singular vision, he has remained perennially positioned at the vanguard of the medium, always pushing the envelope of the film experience with an intensity and courage unmatched by any of his contemporaries. The films of his I am most interested in are: Hugo, The Departed, Raging Bull and Goodfellas. Besides the charming tale of Hugo, all of these films have something in common, extreme violence. Scorsese seems to have worked largely in the medium of violence for most of his career. However, unlike a blockbuster director such as Michael Bay...
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...When one thinks of great movies, Australian cinema is not usually the first thing that comes to mind. However, this is not to say that it has gone completely unnoticed. Australian cinema has been a sort of boom and bust industry since its inception in the late 1800’s. When it is booming, it can be one of the most successful film industries in the world. Nonetheless, when it is down, it can be so unproductive as to only produce a few movies in a decade. After several previous attempts to solve the slump of the film industry, the Australian government created the Australian Film Commission (AFC) in 1975. The AFC was a used to help the film industry by providing government funding to Australian filmmakers to facilitate the production of internationally competitive films. This made it much easier to screen Australian films across the globe for an international audience. Upon its inception, the effects of the AFC were seen almost immediately with the release of Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) as well as Ken Hannam’s Sunday to Far Away (1975), two of the first internationally successful Australian films. According to Film History: An Introduction, a textbook by Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell, “The AFC helped finance about fifty features in its first five years, out performing its European counterparts by recovering about 38 percent of its investments.” The era of films made during the 1970’s and 1980’s as a result of the AFC’s funding have been referred to as Australia’s...
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