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The film 28 Days Later goes deep into the world of monstrosity and the audience’s perception and understanding of monstrousness. 28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic film, which gives a refreshing take on the “zombie” horror genre. The film follows Jim and a few other survivors as they navigate themselves in a post-apocalyptic world, where the undead is among the living, but, the living is even more dangerous than the undead. The reason 28 Days Later is one of the most critically acclaimed

The first thing that needed to be established in the process of making this skit was deciding what story we wanted to create. Taylor Eickhoff coined the idea of a “scary camping story”. From there, the group went in the direction of a comedy, poking fun at the clichés found in typical scary movies. We employed a heavy use of stereotypes in our characters through their names lines, costumes, and mannerisms. This was done not only to quickly introduce and establish the characters in a short period

Insidious easily fits the film conventions of the horror genre and themes. Insidious incorporates classic horror elements like haunted houses, ghosts, children being possessed, and outside experts of the spiritual world. A family with three children start to witness things out of the ordinary and are unable to understand what they are seeing. The mother, for instance, knew she was seeing strange deities, but her husband refused to believe it and thought she was just out of it. The classic element

For my Social Norm Project I decided to go to a scary movie at AMC. My friend and I went to the scary movie called Crimson Peak when the movie theater was busy. The reason I decided to go when it was busy and picked a scary movie is because I wanted to laugh instead of scream at the scary parts to see what people would do. It is socially normal to scream when you are afraid, but laughing is normally not a reaction someone would expect. To do the experiment we sat in the middle of the theater so we

The other side of Movies: The Audience! Movies, they are constantly made and constantly watched, its one of America’s favorite pastimes. But every time someone watches a film or reads a book or article everyone has something to say about it, a different opinion on it, different literary analysis or critiques. Here we view three critiques on three different movies, Halloween, 300: Rise of an Empire, and Frozen all critiqued through different ways from gender criticism, to visual and aesthetic critique

Hi Loc, I agree with you that genre films do reflect reality. If the films do not have any emotional connections with the audiences, it could be difficult to understand specific characters or situations in the movies. I like how you brought up horror movies as an example and agree that horror movies would be based on the real scared moments from the real life. I understand that many parts of the teen movies are exaggerated, but people feel it could happen in reality because many of the stories actually

The allure of fear is like an imaginary force, that attracts you to discover things that make you have fear, it is like being curious. A lot of people, have fear of doing something, but when they do it, the adrenaline is helps a little bit, because after that, you want to make it over and over again. A lot of people, like scary movies because of the adrenaline the movies make in them. A personal experience of an allure to fear that happened to me, is that I was watching a Netflix show which it is

Have you ever seen the movie Nightmare before Christmas? Do you think it is a Halloween or a Christmas movie? I believe that the movie is a Halloween movie. This essay will discuss how Nightmare before Christmas is a Halloween movie not a Christmas movie because of the songs in the movie are creepy, most of the characters are from and live in Halloween town, and Halloween town ruins Christmas. First I will tell you that the movie is a Halloween movie because of the most of the songs in the movie

Horror films are a format of entertainment used to thrill, entice, and scare audiences for years, dating all the way back to the era of silent film. In the genre, there are many types of horror, which include expressionism, melodrama, film noir, and science fiction. For the following prose, the style of German Expressionism will be highlighted by contrasting a film from 1919, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari directed by Robert Wiene, with 2010 film Shutter Island directed by Martin Scorsese. The archetypal

1984 gave rise to quite a few quality slashers. You had Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Silent Night, Deadly Night just to name a few. Today isn't about those little hits, but instead, it's about the even littler guy, the low budget slasher known as The Mutilator (aka Fall Break). Directed by Buddy Cooper, a man who loved slasher films and just wanted to make a fun movie, The Mutilator is a hidden horror gem that deserves to be more recognized than it is. It provides