Film Analysis : 'Night Of The Living Dead'

The 1946 film The Killers is a renowned film noir based off of Ernest Hemingway’s short story of the same title, focusing on the detailed backstory and investigation for the motive of the murder of Pete Lund/Ole Anderson, commonly known and referred to as “The Swede.” A film noir is a term made originally to describe American mystery and thriller movies produced in the time period from 1944-1954, primarily marked by moods of menace, pessimism, and fatalism. Although the film does not focus on the war itself at all, it still puts forth interesting new ways in how gender relations can be stereotypical as well as divergent proceeding the Second World War.

The movie Before Night Falls directed by Julian Schnabel offers viewers a glimpse of how the homosexual community in Cuba was being mistreated under Fidel Castro’s regime. The true story is told in the eyes of Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas. The film depicts Arenas life in Cuba and all of the awful experiences that he had to deal with as a homosexual. Eventually he was arrested for false accusations of being a molester, however, he was actually under arrest for being a homosexual. Between the 1930s and 1990s, the Communist Cuba was abusive to the LGBT community as shown in their actions of harassment towards homosexuals, imprisoning the homosexuals, or sending them to re-education camps.

“Here’s Johnny!” A famous line from The Shining, when Jack Torrance goes mad and is hacking at the bathroom door with an axe to mutilate his wife, Wendy and son, Danny into many little bloody pieces for disobeying him. The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick. Jack Torrance played by Jack Nicholson, quits his job as a school teacher and takes a job as caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado during the winter, hoping to cure his writer 's block. He moves in along with his wife, Wendy portrayed by Shelley Duvall, and his telepathic son, Danny played by Danny Lloyd. Danny is later told that he has an special telepathic ability called shining, hence the title.

Post modernism can be seen as a turning against structuralism and the rigid thinking of genre. Shaun of the Dead(Focus) is a postmodern film as a combination of two genres: horror and comedy. Horror and comedy are both opposites but did very well together in this film. Shaun of the Dead is a post-modern as it had all of the elements of a horror film but is in fact a comedy. The film was directed and written by “Edgar Wright” (Wright) and co-written by “Simon Peggs” (Peggs). The film is a hybrid romantic, zombie and a comedy. These genres contradict each other therefore resulting the film to be seen as a comedy as these opposing genres are not normally combined with each other.

Facing Death is a compelling documentary on, oftentimes, the final journey patients and their families will venture through together in life. The documentary seeks to capture how the patients and their families respond to the inevitability of death. The film includes families who respond to the issue by allowing their family member, the patient, to pass through the door of death without aggressive care, while there are yet other families who insist on everything being done to delay the moment of death. This topic of fighting death is attributed with producing much debate. On one hand are those who do not see the point of fighting death, however, on the other hand, there are those who believe that delaying death and staying alive is what ought to be done. Personally, from what I understand of either party, I think that I am a part of the later party. In addition, this issue naturally delves into what one believes occurs after death, as it is an issue dealing directly with death. This also compels me to view this topic from the viewpoint of the later party.

In the film, Night of the Living Dead, the movie starts with two siblings, John and Barbara, driving to their father's grave to drop off flowers. John is reluctant to be there and is eager to leave while Barbara is trying to pray. John teases her like when they were children saying “They’re coming to get you, Barbara!” when they both see an unknown man. Barbara goes to apologize to the unknown man but it seems he is dazed and kills John. Barbara escapes and finds herself at an empty house. In the house, she meets Ben, who borders up to the windows after taking down 3 undead. After a bit of listening to a radio for the current status of the state of emergency, Harry and Tom come upstairs. We learn that two men, two women, and a child had been in the basement of the house during Barbara’s and Ben’s struggle with the undead. After much argumentation on if the basement or upstairs was safer between Harry and Ben, Harry went back downstairs to his wife and child. Tom and his wife, Judy, stayed upstairs with Ben believing they could properly border up the windows together. After much convincing from Helen, Harry’s wife, Harry and she join the others upstairs. While listening on the radio, they are given more updates of the state of emergency. The radio announcer suggests instead of staying in place, to now go to one of the designated “safe areas”. When places are announced, Tom says that one of the

Shaun Of The Dead is constructed like a horror movie postmodernism as a combination of two of the opposition - the horror and comedy genres. It can be seen to the postmodern also turned against structured and rigid thinking of the horror movies. Shaun Of The Dead is a postmodern because it consists of all the elements of a horror movie, but in fact is a comedy, Shaun of the Dead was written by Edgar Wright and co-author Simon Page, the film is a hybrid romantic, coma, and comedy, and this type contradict thus each other than the film led to be seen as a comedy, as traditionally is not a combination of these types usually opposed to each other. Shaun of the Dead is a contemporary version of the horror film because it still follows the laws and conventions of the horror film, which consists of blood and gore, zombies and isolation this whole iconography of popular horror movies. Another way Shaun Of The Dead contrasts with the horror and the theory of character Propp films is by replacing the main character to lead the male cool and strong ordinary boy who works in a shop selling electronic devices with slacker him from a friend who adds initially Another element of humor in the film due to lack of The presence of the typical characteristics of a hero.

In my list of movies that always make me cry is the movie “Ghost” which was released on July 13, 1990. This movie made that summer really worth while and gave us romance, comedy and much to think about. The movie starred Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg.

Citizens were encouraged to remain behind locked doors. As Ben drags the decaying body upstairs to one of the rooms, survivors who had been hiding in the cellar frighten Barbara as they enter the living room. Two of the five people hiding in the basement identify themselves as Harry Cooper (Karl Hardman) and Tom (Keith Wayne). The controlling, know-it-all Harry insists that the cellar was the safest place to be, while Ben insists that the cellar is a death trap. Harry’s wife Helen Cooper remains in the basement with their injured daughter Karen (Kyra Schon) while Tom brings his girlfriend Judy (Judith Ridley) upstairs. Ben tells Harry that he could be be boss down in the cellar, but up in the living room, Ben is in charge. The group then watches another broadcaster report that the “undead” were coming back to life and were seeking living victims. Space and military experts hypothesized that the ride of the dead was due to large amounts of radiation that had been brought into the atmosphere. The group attempts to escape the farmhouse, but their plan goes terribly wrong when they were trying to fill the truck with gas. While the truck’s tank is being filled, it catches on fire due to the discarded torch on the ground nearby. The truck explodes with both Tom and Judy in it. Ben races back to the house and kicks the door open after finding it locked. Outside, the undead feed on the remains of the

The movie White Zombie by Victor Halperin revolves around a couple who is about to get married, a man who is jealous of the groom, and a voodoo priest. Neil Parker, and Madeline Short Parker are both getting married in Haiti, Charles Beaumont Talks to the local Voodoo Priest ‘Murder’ Legendre portrayed by Bela Lugosi and he tells Charles that in order to make Madeleine Parker his, He has to make her come in contact with the poison in the vial that he gives him, this is the plot in the movie but in the background there are zombie slaves, there is a scene in where Haitians are burying their own in a road and they are afraid that someone would resurrect their loved one and turn them into a zombie slave, the most famous scene in the movie is the first time we see the sugar mill and we see a zombie fall into a grinder while the rest of the zombies are mindlessly continuing their work, the movie takes place after the Haitian revolution and it shows that even after the revolution there are still people afraid that they would bring back their loved ones from their dead to become slaves in the afterlife

''The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you!!! ...'' Father Merrin&Father Damien Karras from the movie -The Exorcist-

The genre I picked to match up with Primitive, Classic, Revisionist, and Parodic is horror. I love horror so the movies that I have picked would match up with all 4 of them and I also like to note that 3 out of the 4 movies I have picked are made by George Romero. For Primitive I choose the movie is Nosferafu because at that time and from what I learn it I concluded that because of that movie it gave the start of that dark eerie feeling in horror films which are used today.

One movie is And Soon the Darkness starring Amber Heard and Odette yustman. The movie starts off with two women in another country, that goes bicycling. They end up missing their bus to get back to where their from. Soon after the girls get separated and one of them goes missing. Her friend goes through a lot to find her. Once she does she realizes that her friend was being traded for the sex trade. The kidnapped friend ends up dying in the movie, so the traffickers was going to force her to take her friends place in the trade. The movie shows the environment of what the sex slaves go through on a daily basis. There was torture famine and just a lot of inhumane things that the young woman was struggling with. The background of sex trafficking

In “The Departed”, which takes place in South Boston, State Police are tasked with bringing an end to Irish American organized crime. One of the stars of the movie is the great actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays undercover cop Billy Costigan. The cast is packed with high demand actors; one of them being Irish mob boss, Jack Nicholson, playing Frank Costello. Costigans counterpart is Colin Sullivan, played by Matt Damon. Both men just-graduated from Massachusetts State Police Academy; Sullivan is on the side of the mob, and joined the police force to be an informer for the mob boss. There is a key interplay between each man, and the people they are trying to deceive. The stakes are high, as each operative becomes entrenched in their double life,

Nothing will ever go according to plan. Tests are failed, people are changed, loves are lost. As is the case with Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride, following the story of an elegiac young man, the son of newly rich fishmongers. Victor Van Dort (Johnny Depp) is betrothed to Victoria Everglot (Emily Watson), the daughter of penniless aristocrats, to heighten both of their families, and despite his initial terror, he falls in love with her. Unfortunately, Victor has a horrible time at the rehearsal and cannot remember his vows, leading him off into the words where, while practicing, he inadvertently puts the wedding ring on the Corpse Bride (Helena Bonham Carter), a young woman who was murdered on her wedding day for her parent 's money. Victor’s adventures in the land of the dead tear him between his new wife and his intended bride, while teaching him more about himself and those around him. Throughout the film, the elegantly lifelike clay figures portray the lifelessness of the living juxtaposed with the liveliness of the dead in Victorian Europe.