Ghost Movie Analysis

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 film Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976) follows the protagonist Carrie White, Sissy Spacek, who is a shy high school student in a small town. White develops telekinetic powers after receiving her first period, which turns her world completely upside down; especially seeing as she did not know what the blood meant. It is not until the end of the film when she starts to embrace her gifts. Although Carrie is a horror film, the underlying meaning points to the mark of womanhood and discovering a woman's own power, therefore shrinking the male masculinity right before our eyes. Carrie is a feminist film where fear comes not in blood or telekinesis, but the fears of strong women. It is during menstruation, that women are their most self-aware, powerful, and destructive. The film uses cinematic techniques to further push this idea by ways of mise-en-scene, cinematography, and editing. Every

“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.

Although the horror movie "Annabelle", is based on true events, the majority is exaggerated for entertainment --one clear fabrication being her appearance. The movie follows the lives of John and Mia Form, who are expecting a baby. John brings home a doll as a gift. One night they get attacked by two people who are apart of a cult. The attackers are their neighbor's daughter, Annabelle Higgins, and her boyfriend. That night, Annabelle commits suicide while her boyfriend dies at the hands of the police. The family then faces supernatural occurrences from the doll who is possessed by Annabelle Higgins. Some parts of the movie are true to original happenings. The article, "The Story of the Real Annabelle Doll" by David Ian McKendry states, "on

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

It’s more than difficult living in a drug-plagued, impoverished community. These places are often ignored, but shouldn’t be forgotten in any capacity. The film Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins, is meant to demonstrate the hardships of living in a difficult community. Thematically, it highlights the already difficult nature of being black and poor in modern America, while simultaneously showing the hardship of also being gay in said tough community. The film is comprised into three acts surrounding the development of the protagonist, Chiron (in order of acts: Alex R. Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, and Trevant Rhodes). Following him as he struggles with his own sexuality. Consequentially, each act circles back to Chiron at a local beach, which for him, is a safe haven in a typically hostile place. This beach signifies both hope for the marginalized, while commenting on the unjust reality many Americans face daily. Essentially zooming in on what it means to be black, poor, and gay in America.

The movie Moonlight- directed by Barry Jenkins- is a movie that breaks the stereotypes of black masculinity. Moonlight is a film which follows its main character Chiron through three pivotal stages in his life. Theses stages are titled; Little, Chiron, and Black. Little follows the main character as a child, Chiron follows him as a teenager and Black follows him as a young man. Each of these chapters shows things the character is going through and depicts him showing various emotions. One of the main aspects the film focuses on is Chiron's sexuality, which is a topic that is not usually portrayed in cinema, specifically black cinema. The film also explores the topics of drug addiction, fatherhood, poverty and of course, masculinity. It is

My favorite cinematic element to focus on is sound, or the lack there of maybe. All throughout Dead Man, we see William wandering all over town and the wilderness with very little dialogue. One scene that sticks out in my mind is the very last scene between William and Nobody. Nobody pushes William out onto the water in a canoe, and William stares back at him lifting his head every now and then looking as though he wants to say something but does not. In Jim Jarmusch’s interview with Jane Shapiro he says, “The pauses to me are more important, really, often, than words. Often the calm moment when people aren’t saying anything is much more important than dialogue” (Shapiro, 60). I think this says a lot about Jarmusch’s directing style.

The movie Dead Man Walking is based on a true story about an inmate on death row who was spiritually advised by Sister Helen. Sister Helen had never been a spiritual advisor and got caught up in this without knowing what she was doing, but she was there for Matthew nonetheless. Adhering to the CST themes of Solidarity and Life and Dignity of the Human Person, Sister Helen helps both Matthew to keep his human dignity and the families of the victims to feel better and accept their losses.

In The Vanishing, the movie starts out with the main antagonist, Barney, working out all the kinks in his plan to abduct a woman. The audience learns later in the movie that he only wishes to do this so he can prove to both himself and his daughter that he deserves to be looked up to as a god, all because he saved a drowning child. Barney is portrayed to be mentally ill, at least to the American public. The 1993 English movie, compared to the Dutch movie released in 1988, had made Barney out to be more psychology unstable, and had given him an unknown accent, or speech impediment. It could be due to the difference in actors, but the actor himself, Jeff Bridges, doesn't seem to have Barney's speech issues anywhere outside of the role. It seems,

“Ghostbusters” is the story of four women who gave up their jobs to hunt ghosts around New York City. These team of underdogs will win everybody’s heart, and not only that. This is a great movie to watch if you want to forget about your problems and just laugh, and the Guardian review about it fully supports the idea. However, the NPR review about the movie does not entirely agree with this idea.

Clothing line, producer, singer/songwriter, bassist, and television personality, is there anything Mark Hoppus can’t do? Apparently not. In an effort to break into film, he has now scored the four minute stop motion animated short “I’m Scared,” directed by Comedy Bang Bang’s Pete Levin. The film, which was produced by Levin, Musa Brooker, and Dan Levy, is based off of drawings done by Hoppus’ friend and artist Greg Simkins, better known as Craola; and follow as “Big Brother shares with Little Brother all the frightening things that inhabit the world at night as they try to go to sleep. Small concerns grow into spooky spectres as Big Brother's imagination takes over and their bedroom becomes a playground for monstrous creatures of all types.“

Movie Analysis for Phenomenon: Using RIPS Model as an Ethical Framework This paper will analyze the movie Phenomenon. Specifically, it will breakdown the movie using the ethical framework of the RIPS Model. It will highlight the main moral agent in the movie and the ethical problem he was confronted with, his personal and professional conduct, duties, virtues, principles, values, and the impact of the alternatives chosen in the movie’s resolution.

In a study done in 2011, 34% of Americans believed in the existence of ghosts, 56% thought ‘ghosts’ were spirits of the dead, and 71% believed they had had a paranormal experience at least once before (LiveScience). The stories are infamous: Bloody Mary, vanishing hitchhikers, stories of chairs and lamps being flung about by an unseen force; we’ve heard them since childhood. It has been wondered why we, as humans, love the feeling of being scared so much. In reality, the answer is simple: when we’re scared, the brain sends signals to our body to release adrenaline, which aids our ‘fight or flight’ response—this is the natural instinct to either fight off or flee from something that may prove dangerous. When we’re scared by these ‘ghosties, ghoulies, and long-leggedy beasties’—whether in the form of a scary movie, haunted house, you name it—that adrenaline is still released in instinct; the catch is that we know we’re safe, as it’s only a simulation. Basically, we’re given a safe adrenaline rush. So what about ghosts? There are countless claims, horrifying to say the least, of encounters with malevolent forces. Why do we so desperately want to believe in something that could potentially do us such great harm? Are these claims even plausible? These questions are posed for three reasons, depending on the inquirer: to provide security in the idea that there’s an afterlife, to provide security in the effectiveness of today’s scientific studies, and to provide security in the

Memento Movie is a cast directed by Christopher Nolan. The movie is a Psychological thriller that narrates the events that have driven the cause of the protagonist called Leonard Shelby to murder Teddy. The movie has received serious acclaim for its special time sequence, which can be attributed to both its chronicle and reversed order. The formation of the film serves two purposes, to imitate the process of human recollection, and to allow the audience to understand the nature of anterograde amnesia, a disease Leonard Shelby ails from.