Leatherface

Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger is a character of the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He first appeared in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as a burnt serial killer who uses a glove armed with razors to kill his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well. In the dream world, he is a powerful force and almost completely invulnerable. However, whenever Freddy is pulled into the real world, he has normal human vulnerabilities. Krueger was created by

According to Cohen, monsters correspond with a culture at a particular time period, which reveals it’s and fears, desires, and anxiety. One of the main tragedies in both the film and the book is the insanity that has befallen Mr. Kurtz. He was portrayed as a man who is actually an average man, who seemed so good and stable, but suddenly became insane. Through the demise of Kurtz’s saneness and the way that Marlow and Willard responded to this, both the movie and the book showed that darkness prevails

In this essay I will be talking about the Top 10 movies of the 1970s. The 1970s were seen as the golden era for Hollywood, in just 10 years, we've been given a whole bunch of rewatchable classics. Almost everyone has either seen or heard about a 70s movie from The Exorcist to Grease. Movies from the 70s have survived the times; Star Wars, The Godfather, Jaws, Carrie, and Rocky, just to name a few, have either had sequels or remakes. The 70s were also known for the birth of the slasher movies including

Edward Gein was born in August 27, 1906 in La Crosse. He is the son of a timid alcoholic father and a fanatically religious mother. Gein grew up alongside his older brother Henry, in a household ruled by his mother’s puritanical preaching about sins of lust and carnal desires. His father, George Philip Gein, died from a heart attack caused by alcoholism on April 1, 1940. After his father's death, Henry and Edward started to odd jobs in order to cover living expenses; Both considered handymen, however

Edward Theodore Gein was born on August 27th in 1906 in the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Even at the beginning, it seems as though he had a troubled home life. Upon moving to a small farm outside Plainfield, his father was always working-whether it was as a carpenter and tanner, or at the farm. When he isn’t working however, he is drinking. As such, he is not around for the major family decisions, leaving them to Ed’s mother Augusta, whom was very religious. Ed’s father died in 1940. Four years

Many of you may know Ed Gein from his influence on the characters from Texas Chainsaw Massacre as “leatherface”, American Horror Story as “Dr. Thredson”/“Bloody Face”, Psycho as “Norman Bates”, The Silence of the Lambs as “James Gumb”. But, This certain serial killer is much more than how he is portrayed in these films. He was even a furniture entrepreneur of sorts among other things. Ed was born on August 27,1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He endured a fairly secluded childhood. This is due to his

would wear the faces and stare at himself, dressing up with wigs jewelry and fake breasts. He then turned to murder, killing at least two women in 1957. Gein inspired film characters Norman Bates (Psycho), James Gumb (The Silence of the Lambs) and Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre). It would be very convenient to be able to attribute all the horrible things that Hannibal does to the fact that he’s a sick psychopath with no redeeming features whatsoever. And for the most part, this is the picture

If I were to remake the 1974 version of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, I would update it to have current technology. I would update the movie so people had cell phones; I would have social media play a big part in the movie; I would also put in updated vehicles and machinery. With these changes to the movie I feel like it would help the movie become more modern. Nowadays everyone has a cell phone. From 80 year olds to 10 year olds, almost everyone has a cell phone. In remaking The Texas Chain Saw

of surprise and suspense throughout the movie. The timing of the appearance of the evil in each movie was just as similar to other movies, delayed. In Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it takes up to half way through the movie for the chainsaw killer, Leatherface, to appear and attack his first victim. In Poltergeist, the

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