Rampage: A Movie about a Serial Killer

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, a sequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre released in 1974, is a 1986 film directed by Tobe Hooper. This sequel is set 13 years after the events that transpired in the first film and follows Lieutenant "Lefty" Enright, played by Dennis Hopper, on his quest to find and destroy the Sawyer family the Sawyer clan did to his niece, Sally Hardesty, and his nephew, Franklin, in the first film of the franchise. Historically, "horror films developed out of the tradition of Gothic novels from Europe by way of Mary Shelley or Bram Stoker" (Dirks 788). Like these Gothic novels, horror cinema highlights the battle between good and evil whether it is between two separate individuals or entities, or a battle within the self. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2's narrative and description of the fight between good and evil allows for the analysis of theories such as isolation, exploration, transformation, and metamorphosis.

I chose this book because (respond in at least 2 sentences): I chose this book because it has a deep story. After seeing what happened in the movie and reading the book it is so sad to see what happens and how things come out to be.|

     Critics of Kurt Vonnegut’s are unable to agree on what the main theme of his novel Slaughterhouse Five may be. Although Vonnegut’s novels are satirical, ironical, and extremely wise, they have almost no plot structure, so it is hard to find a constant theme. From the many people that the main character Billy Pilgrim meets, and the places that he takes us, readers are able to discern that Vonnegut is trying to send the message that there will always be death, there will always be war, and humans have no control over their own lives.

This film really grabbed my interest by depicting real life situations and corruption in today’s

The American public's fascination with serial murders has not only continuously kept these violent men and women in the public eye, but has also inspired the creation of films that demonstrate and dramatize the heinous crimes committed by these people. One such film program that adapts crimes committed by serial murderers, and the murderers themselves, is The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Through a combination of criminology, psychology, and sociology, The Silence of the Lambs is able to not only inform audiences of the dangerous types of people that currently inhabit society, but also of the individuals who study serial murderers with the intent of apprehending them before they commit any more crimes and to help identify these murderers victims.

The film “Stress: Portrait of a Killer” shows how dangerous if stress stay longer in our life that will can effect on our health in many different way. Today people have a hard time to turning stress off as they have to cope with their daily life. This film points out the effect of stress on our body. It will shrink our brain, add fat to our belly, and unravel our chromosomes. So if we understand how stress work can help us figure out ways to protect our health and avoid the danger of stress.

While the other films involved in the lesson also seemed intriguing, this one really affected me. It practically made it obligatory for me to discuss it while also providing people with the opportunity to learn more concerning the event.

There were a total of seventeen crime scenes due to his actions. The parents believe that they unfairly treated this crime because they failed to consider that their son had a mental illness and also failed to prevent such things from happening. The victims killed were George Chen, Cheng Yuan Hong, Weihan Wang, Katherine Breann Cooper, Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez, and Veronika Elizabeth Weiss.

er the the years the documentary genre has been seen to have evolved and as to has the definition of a documentary. A documentary is an informative, non-fiction genre that presents the idea of ‘reality’ to audience members and relates to the idea of a text having common elements of which the audience can relate and identify. In the documentary, “Bowling for Columbine” directed by Michael Moore (2002), we as an audience follow Moore as he explores America’s violent history and whilst making us more aware of gun control in America he is also altering viewers opinions on gun control. This reading will explore the documentary conventions of interviews, montage and hand-held camera featured in Bowling For Columbine and question whether Michael Moore has used these conventions to subtly influence the way the audience feel about gun control in America whilst also manipulating the film to make it look like “reality”.

On Saturday, June 27, 1987, Tyrone Payne spent his morning and afternoon drinking beer and injecting cocaine; Mr. Payne at approximately 3 p.m., entered the apartment of Charisse Christopher (28), and her two children; Lacie (2) and Nicholas (3). Mr. Payne approached Ms. Christopher and began making sexual advanced towards her, when she resisted, he killed her and Lacie. Nicholas suffered serious inflicting wounds; however, he survived. At trial, Payne presented four witnesses: his parents, girlfriend, and clinical psychologist Dr. John T. Huston. Their testimonies relied heavily on how good of a person he was, attended church and demonstrated low intelligence as a form of being mentally handicapped. The state presented the testimony of Ms. Mary Zvolanek (Charisse mother). She

The film Mind of a Rampage Killer, which first aired in the aftermath of the Newtown massacre, highlights questions at the forefront of all of our minds: what compels a human-being to commit the most inhuman of crimes? As a society, we see the gruesome images of violence every day, but do we understand how children can grow up to become ruthless killers? Furthermore, how can we prevent another event, such as the Newtown massacre, from occurring again? In this documentary, produced and directed by Miles O’Brien, NOVA investigates the roots of violence, including neurological, environmental and psychological factors.

Towards the end of the film, Roland Wayne Wood, a former Nazi Party leader, expressed his regret and sorrow for participating in the Greensboro Massacre. “Yes, I was a very stupid man. Yes, I was full of hatred and bigotry. But most of all, I want to ask, please understand. I did not know that anybody was going to get hurt. And I'm sorry with all my heart” He said with remorse. The most meaningful aspect I took from this scene, is that it led me to come to the belief that people can honestly change. Wood not only participated in the Greensboro Massacre, but he was one of the murderers caught on camera. Roland Wood, man who admittedly lived his life full of prejudice and hatred, and committed the act of murder because of his hatred, could feel honest remorse and see the wrong in his actions. Seeing someone who has lived a life full of hate and commit an act as heinous as murder, acknowledge their actions and feel regret for them, shows me that no one is too far gone and anyone is capable of changing if they genuinely want it for

Bowling for Columbine is a documentary directed and written by Michael Moore about the United States of America’s mindset on gun violence and finding out the key causes of why America has the highest amount of gun related deaths in the world. Moore does this by venturing to Flint Michigan, Ontario Canada, Littleton Colorado, South Central Los Angeles, and interviewing the locals, Charles Heston (the president of the National Rifles Association), Marilyn Manson, Evan McCollum (director of communications for Lockheed Martin Space Systems), and those who knew of or were involved with the Columbine high school shooting. Each scene is created to invoke the viewer into sympathizing with Moore’s argument that the media’s constant stream of negativity and violence manipulates the American mass into fear and that causes them to consume and spend money. Michael Moore takes control of the documentary by editing horrifying clips to feel good music to create an emotional appeal. He also makes use of logical appeals by showing the history of America’s wrong doings and coincidence of NRA rally’s shorty after a mass massacre tragedy. Satirically he makes light of how ridiculous Americans love their guns by use of song and cartoon. (Moss) These deliberate techniques push the viewer to side with Moore and they are very effective especially for first time watchers -including me. I agree that America is insecure and focuses too much on the bad; we want the quickest and easiest solution

“ I should have gone into college and gone into real estate and got myself an aquarium...That’s what I should have done…”~ Jeffrey Dahmer ( The Milwaukee Cannibal). Many think that serial killers are insane, not realizing how much thought goes into their killings and picking their victims. They also do not realize how much Serial Killer have in common, all the way from their personality, family life to neurological traits. Yet a very crucial fact that people tend to overlook is the very definition of insanity” A mental illness of such a severe degree that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality” and although Serial Killer may have a very twisted reality but they know that stealing a innocent's life is wrong, hiding under the claim

Steven Avery, a family man, a victim of injustice and an accused murderer. One may have reasoned that his murder conviction was a crime of passion, due to the injustice Steven suffered from his 1985 false conviction of rape and assault, but that may have been before his story caught national attention. A documentary, “Making a Murderer”, directed by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, arose from his story’s infamy. With this documentary came numerous questions as to Avery’s possible innocence, but above all else answers that shed light on a possibly corrupt justice system that appears intent on framing Steven Avery for Teresa Halbach’s murder. “Making a Murderer” effectively portrays a message of the injustice of Steven Avery’s murder conviction and possible corruption within the Manitowoc’s justice system through the use of footage and accounts from people who were involved with his conviction.