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    Horror Narrative Essay

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    The horror genre has many lessons to teach us as an audience although being the genre most connected with that of ridiculousness. It is regularly associated with the reaction it seeks from its audience; both emotional and physical. In cinema success is measured by terrifying chills, bloody deaths and the volume of the audiences scream. The appeal of horror narrative in literature, film and theatre lies in the pleasures it associates with fear, suspense and terror; no matter what it is trying to

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    especially “slasher” films. Often times in “slasher” or scarier films females have a primary role. In many of those cinemas females are being tormented and faced with a challenge often by a male tormenter. Clover applies the new theory and selects a specific female character from various “slasher” films. She then digs deeper into the film with an eye on the challenge the female is facing and how she overcomes it. Clover came up with a few claims with a major one being that “slasher” films aren’t

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    Resident Evil: Retribution is a 2012 science fiction, action and horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. It is based on the Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil. 10This film conveys women are like that of a stereotype of men-heroic and dominant. There are a number of countless fight scenes, which suggest the control and supremacy of females. In the corridor fight, Alice uses a long chain to safeguard herself and achieves victory in the fight. A high angle shot has

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    We all know that there are different types of movies. Some prefer comedy, others prefer action, and there are those who enjoy being scared out of their wits while watching a horror movie. If you're one of those who enjoy horror movies, you may know that there could be a slight debate to which horror movie or scary character reins superior. If someone had to choose, I'd say it'd be a close tie between Freddie Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and Michael Myers from the Halloween series

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    The cinematography of the film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was very effective to the audience at the time. During the 1920’s, it wasn’t common to have a horror movie like this with a dark and twisted visual style. Because of the cinematography of this German film, it actually had a major influence on the American films in horror and film noir genres. To get the cinematography right, they had to exaggerate the lighting to give off the feel of it being a horror film. One of the ways why cinematography

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    Infectious Entertainment Scary movies are great because they push boundaries of the believable while sitting on the threshold of our most deep set fears. Where movies such as The Exorcist or The Blair Witch Project have shock value, they also lack depth. Where are the elements that bring these stories their credibility/believability? Some of the best horror movies of all time were science fiction stories that left the audience feeling this could actually happen in their daily lives. Who honestly

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    suspense thriller…” (Pinedo, 14)” (Wadenius). One characteristic of postmodern horror that The Cabin in the Woods demonstrates is intertextuality. While the film draws inspiration from many different sources of horror fiction, it mainly draws from slasher films while blending elements of sci-fi and comedy “such that it is possible to see and appreciate the transgression” (Pinedo, 14). Carol Clover’s brief plot summary of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre sounds almost identical to the main storyline of The

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    Why We Love Serial Killer

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    concept about him in the audience’s mind and therefore, bears a huge negative impact on society. Among these is spectators’ desensitization to violence screened in the film as well as in real life, development of murderabilia syndrome in them, and the slasher – film watchers’ becoming actual perpetrators. 2.1 Murderabilia, or Era of Supper Villains One of the inevitable effects of creating idol – like image of serial killers in horror films

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    Tying in the argument of masculinity, throughout the history of horror movies, women have shown more masculine characteristics. The final girl killing her aggressor has become more of the movie norm over the growth of the final girl trope from the 1970s to today. Clover points out that, “present Final Girls who not only fight back but do so with ferocity and even kill the killer on their own, without help from the outside” (Clover 37). Arguably the grittiest horror movie final girl, Nancy from the

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    Business Plan: Yo-Good Essay

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    of non-fat frozen yogurt with a dazzling variety of fresh toppings” (Yo-Good: Frozen Yogurt with an Important Difference, 2011) in an all-natural way without the use of artificial sweeteners. Our goal is to bring a Yo-Good franchise to the city of Halifax; a city that we believe is in dire need of great tasting healthy alternatives. The legal form of this business, therefore, would be a franchise. A franchise was chosen in lieu of the formation of

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