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Nightmare On Elm Street Film And Reality
1,373 wordsThe original A Nightmare on Elm Street was inspired by an extraordinary series of unnoticed stories in the Los Angeles Times. A young immigrant male, early 20 s, usually from Southeast Asia, a son, would have a severe nightmare where he would wake up screaming. The next day, he would tell his family it was the worst nightmare hed ever had, and he had been terribly shaken by it. The next night when he went to sleep died. Six months later I looked in the paper and there was a very similar story. I...
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Mise En Scene Early 1900
1,886 wordsThe hit musical "Singin' in the Rain" may possibly be one of if not the greatest musicals of all time. With it's tale of the film world of the mid 1920 's and its creative underlining love story between Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), it provokes the interest of someone who would not generally be attracted to a musical. It is a classic masterpiece that set the standards that musical films of today will be judged by. It is a classic performance by the great Gene Kell...
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Horror Films Blair Witch
2,300 wordsHorror Films Recent years have seen a glorious revival of American horror cinema with films such as Scream and The Blair Witch Project re-introducing moviegoers to the joys of high-caliber fright flicks. Sadly, however, British attempts to capitalize on the genre's return from the grave have been embarrassing to say the least, with films such as Revelation and Long Time Dead boring audiences and making hardcore horror fans yearn for death's sweet embrace. So, it comes as an enormous relief to re...
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Story Of A Man Wes Craven
2,338 words... may even enjoy it, or, according to some psychologists, benefit from it. Is it though, one of the higher human emotions? Is it noble? Mark Kermode, Radio One film critic and the maker of a BBC documentary on The Exorcist, reckons it is. And he scorns those who have a snobbish attitude to horror movies. (Cook & Bernink 84 - 90). "Horror is the most noble of genres and people who think it a lesser one because it is popular and successful are intellectual retards, " he said. "Terror is a fundam...
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Century Fox Horror Films
2,232 wordsInto The? Time Warp? : The Rocky Horror Into The? Time Warp? : The Rocky Horror Picture Show As An Enduring Pop Cult Classic For years, with its phenomenal success as a midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has made? don? t dream it, be it? the motto for its ever-growing cult audience. The film continues to be regarded by critics and audiences as the only no-holds-barred, ultimate theatre experience, which has seemingly drawn a repeat audience of cult film followers year after year. More...
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Horror Movie Three Films
1,560 wordsThe David Cronenberg David Cronenberg The director I chose to do my Analysis/Research paper on is was David Cronenberg. After screening The Dead Zone, Cronenberg? s work impressed me. Prior to this class I had never heard his name, even though I had seen previous works such as The Fly. Since I had already viewed this movie I resorted to alternate movies he had directed. I was able to locate The Brood and Videodrome. The main reason I chose Cronenberg for my director had to do with his style. His...
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Stanley Kubrick Stephen Kings
2,491 wordsStanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) initially received quite a bit of negative criticism. The film irritated many Stephen King fans (and King himself) because it differed so greatly from the novel. The Shining also disappointed many film goers who expected a conventional slasher film. After all, Kubrick said it would be the scariest horror movie of all time. 1 Kubrick's films, however, never fully conform to their respective genres; they transcend generic expectations. In the same way that 2001...
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Kenneth Branagh Ghost
1,101 wordsThe play? Hamlet, Prince of Denmark? , by William Shakespeare being of such a complicated variety of themes, contains many different story lines as well as being very extensive in nature makes it quite a challenge to be produced and acted. On paper, the reader can translate things, as they like. Since Shakespeare is not around to tell us the meaning of every theme or the truth about every nook and cranny about his works. It is up to the reader to decide what the importance of everything is. Thus...
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Wes Craven Horror Genre
2,324 wordsAt 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 an...
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Addison Wesley Longman Reading Across The Curriculum
1,147 wordsEssay 4: Synthesis Activity # 2 How often do you hear a person refer to a movie as a horror movie these days? Now that you think about it, you don t hear it very often. Usually, when you hear a person describing a movie categorized as a horror they refer to it as a scary movie. While working on this project I came to the conclusion that there is a noticeable difference between the two. Last week I invited some friends over for a night of scary movies. The first movie that we watched was Wes Crav...
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Stephen Edwin King Stephen King
2,556 wordsSTEPHEN KING OF STYLE Outline He especially incorporates the feelings of hope and his own personal occurrences into his novels. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using lucid imagery that is set in a realistic everyday place as well as symbols and unique characterization to help his paced suspense and sub-plotting. A. Introduction I. Themes Hope: in the Green Mile, the hope of something being better paranormally disturbed: in Carrie, she uses her telekinetic powers for revenge familiari...
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