Halifax Slasher

Penobscot Field development Using Schlumberger Petrel Platform by RITESH BHARATKUMAR SAVANUR Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for Master of Engineering - Petroleum Course Project - PETR9000 at Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia August 2015 Supervised by Dr.Adam .K. Donaldson Department of Process Engineering & Applied science. © Copyright by Ritesh Bharatkumar Savanur 2015 Table of Contents # Topic Page 1 Introduction 1 2 Project Area 1 3 Geology and

Having Halloween just around the corner the horror genre has been on demand. What is a horror genre? Horror is defined as being “an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust” and genre is defined as being “a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter” according to Oxford Dictionary. Therefore a horror genre is a horror film in one of the many categories in a genre that makes the audience feel fear, shock or disgust

As the hit show The Walking Dead is serving as background noise in the house of my best friend Morgan, we discuss the different degrees of fear we encounter when watching different horror movies. Bringing up the topic about horror movies or just the genre “horror” brings chills to Morgan and makes her squirm in her seat. It’s strange to acknowledge the fact that horror movies can have one of two effects on people. They either enjoy the thrill, or despise the feeling of being terrified. Based off

1) In 1999 a study was done stating that fifty-two percent of children who watched horror movies/TV shows, would wake up in the middle of the night with night terrors. Another study was conducted in 2003, this time it was based off of psychology. AllPhsych Online, is an online classroom mostly focused on psychology, states that “children who view media violence are more likely to have increased feelings of hostility, decreased emotional response to the portrayal of violence and injury that lead to

Slasher Movies: Female Victims or Survivors? “[Scary movies are] all the same. Some stupid killer stalking some big-breasted girl who can’t act who’s always running up the stairs when she should be running out the front door. It’s insulting,” claims the character Sidney, in the movie Scream (1996). This stereotype is what many movie fans and critics believe when the topic of slasher films arise. Slasher films normally include a psychotic killer (either real or supernatural), a number of

Beginning around the late 1990s, a transgressive cinematic movement by the name of The New French Extremity emerged and brought forth an “aggressive and abrasive [form] of cinema that [sought] a more confrontational experience.” (Palmer, 22). Among the numerous films within the movement, few films have maintained their initial notoriety, and far less have continued to be as provocative as Martyrs (2008). Like other films within the New French Extremity, Martyrs aims to be uncompromising and unpleasant

on various subgenres of the horror universe: slasher films, body horror, giallo, and zombie films. Slasher films are frightfully delicious and when the genre comes to mind all I can think about is a super predictable good time! Slasher films are, as said by Sarah Trencansky, “those horror movies that consist of a monster or maniac stalking and/or killing a succession of people, usually teenagers” (64). I couldn’t have said it better myself. The slasher genre is also riddled with a countless number

The 1970s represented a truly diverse time in the history of horror cinema. This was a reflection, perhaps, of how life was growing more complex in the 1970s, with competing problems pulling audiences towards different fears. Some horror films in the 1970s were revisionary, based on the fresh principles of a freer, more personal cinema. Other horrors were merely old resurrections and variations of monsters who had appeared on the silver screen, in one form or another, since the 1930s and 1940s.

Cabin in the Woods and Cargo don’t need novelty to create fear, the novelty is essential in balancing with the demands of the genre to create interesting stories. The Cabin in the Woods is a 2011 horror film directed by Drew Goddard that follows the slasher film roadmap to a tee, yet is sure to keep audiences enthralled throughout. Five teenagers head out to an isolated forest cabin to be indiscriminately killed by a gang of terrifying monsters. The film soon shows it’s full hand, however, when it is

From Silence of the Lambs to Psycho, horror films have long demonized transgender characters. These negative representations often lead to an increase in violence within certain communities. The Silence of the Lambs is a movie about Jodie Foster, an FBI trainee. She is asked to interview a brilliant psychiatrist, named Dr. Lecter, to help uncover a serial killer's identity. Dr. Lecter also happens to be a psychopath and in prison for various accounts of murder and cannibalism. The serial killer