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Friends And Family Horror Films
1,753 wordsHow on earth do horror film directors sleep at night? Don't they ever wake up and say, "Is this what my life is about: making people fear dark rooms, old houses, and things that go bump in the night?" How do they stand it all? What inspires them to create these vividly outrageous spins on reality? These may be the questions often asked by people who don't quite understand the method behind the madness that is the horror film. These questions will be answered in this paper as it explains the deve...
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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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Psychological Elements Of The Picture Dorian Gray
1,582 wordsOscar Wilde was an egocentric author with strong morals and values. The picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel he wrote Wilde is a play writer- and provoked controversy in the Victorian society. The novel critiques many things such as art for arts sake and modernism issues. Wilde also explores the themes of rebellion against the true nature of things-in this case- aging and conventionalist view of the Victorian society. He combines it with a denouement classified as horror in a subtle and effe...
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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 Genre Horror Films
1,211 wordsMorbid Fascinations: Carroll on Horror The Philosophy of Horror; or Paradoxes of the Heart by Noel Carroll is an in depth look at the reasons why so many people are intrinsically drawn to images of horror and gore and death in film, art, and life. Carroll discuss the many avenues that people have taken in the past to explain this phenomenon, this apparent paradox of how artistic presentation of normally averse events and objects can give rise to pleasure. (Carroll, p 161) This paradox is a parti...
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Kurtz Last Words Cut Off From Civilization
1,937 wordsConrad s Heart of Darkness is the story of the dissolution of a man and the system that he stands for. Kurtz has decomposed because he lacks restraint. While Kurtz was in the darkness of the Congo, he found the most inhumane and violent ways of producing material wealth. It is Kurtz s metamorphosis into absolute evil which kills him. is the man who has decayed and succumbed to the evil within himself because of the society s system he is from. European civilization has conjectured itself to be s...
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Avant Garde Boris Karloff
3,386 wordsCertain films which today are regarded as classics of American cinema John Ford&# 39; s The Searchers (1956), Orson Welles&# 39; Citizen Kane (1941), the Judy Garland musical The Wizard Of Oz (1939), Frank Capra&# 39; s It&# 39; s A Wonderful Life (1946), Walt Disney&# 39; s Fantasia (1940) are, or at least used to be, cult films. Box-office disappointments when they were released, these films were kept alive over the decades not by reviewers or studios or theaters, but by film goers who loved t...
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Marlon Brando Escalating Horrors
3,987 wordsInherent inside every human soul is a savage evil side that remains repressed by society. Often this evil side breaks out during times of isolation from our culture, and whenever one culture confronts another. History is loaded with examples of atrocities that have occurred when one culture comes into contact with another. Whenever fundamentally different cultures meet, there is often a fear of contamination and loss of self that leads us to discover more about our true selves, often causing per...
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Boris Karloff Horror Films
3,055 wordsAs a companion piece to the articles outlining the histories of the eight major film studios, this survey examines four low-budget studios. They produced mostly Grade-&# 34; B&# 34; films: genre efforts made quickly and cheaply for targeted audiences usually young ones, whether it was the fare aimed at juvenile cowboy enthusiasts, provided by Monogram, PRC (Producers Releasing Company), and Republic during the 1930 s and &# 39; 40 s, or the older teen crowds sold on AIP&# 39; s (American Interna...
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Kurtz Last Words Cut Off From Civilization
1,319 wordsIn Heart of Darkness it is the white invaders for instance, who are, almost without exception, embodiments of blindness, selfishness, and cruelty; and even in the cognitive domain, where such positive phrases as " to enlighten, " for instance, are conventionally opposed to negative ones such as " to be in the dark, " the traditional expectations are reversed. In Kurtz's painting, as we have seen, " the effect of the torch light on the face was sinister" (Watt 332). ...
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Kurtz Last Words Heart Of Darkness
1,469 wordsThe Horror! In Heart of Darkness it is the white invaders for instance, who are, almost without exception, embodiments of blindness, selfishness, and cruelty; and even in the cognitive domain, where such positive phrases as to enlighten, for instance, are conventionally opposed to negative ones such as to be in the dark, the traditional expectations are reversed. In Kurtz's painting, as we have seen, the effect of the torch light on the face was sinister (Watt 332). Ian Watt, author of Impressio...
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Francis Ford Coppola Heart Of Darkness
2,221 wordsDaniel Torture Paper 4 Final Draft Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, and Apocalypse Now, a movie by Francis Ford Coppola can be compared and contrasted in many ways. By focusing on their endings and on the character of Kurtz, contrasting the meanings of the horror in each media emerges. In the novel the horror reflects Kurtz tragedy of transforming into a ruthless animal whereas in the film the horror has more of a definite meaning, reflecting the war and all the barbaric fighting tha...
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Kurtz Last Words Cut Off From Civilization
1,288 wordsHeart of Darkness In Heart of Darkness it is the white invaders for instance, who are, almost without exception, embodiments of blindness, selfishness, and cruelty; and even in the cognitive domain, where such positive phrases as to enlighten, for instance, are conventionally opposed to negative ones such as to be in the dark, the traditional expectations are reversed. In Kurtz's painting, as we have seen, the effect of the torch light on the face was sinister (Watt 332). Ian Watt, author of Imp...
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York N Y Heart Of Darkness
1,426 wordsThe Horror &# 9; Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a novel where the main character Marlow is telling a story of a trip to the Congo. This novel is said to possibly be an autobiography of Conrad? s life at sea. This is said because Conrad was a seaman for a many years and went into Africa many times. The story is so powerful that even after 100 years, we still struggle with its meaning. This story has been retold by Francis Ford Coppola in the film Apocalypse Now. China Achebe has recently e...
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Bram Stoker Wes Craven
1,364 wordsHorror films have always been designed to frighten and invoke the audiences worst fears, often in a terrifying or shocking way. Yet at the same time, horror films are suppose to be entertaining, despite, or in addition to the scariness. They deal with our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death, or loss of identity. Horror films have developed out of a number of sources from folk tales with devil characters...
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Kurtz Last Words Cut Off From Civilization
1,437 wordsIn Heart of Darkness it is the white invaders for instance, who are, almost without exception, embodiments of blindness, selfishness, and cruelty; and even in the cognitive domain, where such positive phrases as to enlighten, for instance, are conventionally opposed to negative ones such as to be in the dark, the traditional expectations are reversed. In Kurtz's painting, as we have seen, the effect of the torch light on the face was sinister (Watt 332). Ian Watt, author of Impressionism and Sym...
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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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