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Bram Stoker Jonathan Harker
886 wordsThe aspect of Dracula that makes it so frightening, as opposed to contemporary horror, is that of the strong persona of Count Dracula himself. For all of the terror he inspires, The Count has few appearances in the novel, instead using his mystique to frighten the reader. While nearly all current books and films in the horror genre focus on the aspects of violence and shock appeal, Dracula uses the element of suspense to captivate the reader. By using the element of fear, Bram Stoker keeps the r...
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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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Nightmare On Elm Street Film And Reality
1,437 words... x Seven, eight, gonna stay up late Nine, ten never sleep again. As a teenage girl wanders around a dark boiler room in only her nightgown, as a screeching is heard as knives are scratched against the pipes. A badly burned man wearing a dirty hat and striped sweater with knives for finger grabs her from behind and she then wakes up screaming in her bed, it was only a dream. Not long after this, the same girl is in another dream where she is being chased by the same man, Freddy Kreuger. As the...
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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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Good And Evil Bram Stoker
1,410 wordsWhere Dracula Stoker v. s Coppola Where there is no imagination there is no horror. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Imagination is the force that keeps human desires alive. It is a state that allows someone to give up repression and indulge into temptation. Where the conscious mind is a state of composed and rational behaviour, imagination becomes the unconscious setting into a world of countless fantasies where one does not need to worry about the consequences. However, civilization is built on the fact...
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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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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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