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    do believe though that I could of told my story more effectively in that some the actions are a bit short in which I think some cases might move the plot faster than it should. I would say that my script without a doubt is a horror script. There are many conventions from horror films that are used in my script, but not enough to make

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    Horror Movies: A Lasting Impact A fair claim can be made on human nature that humans tend to crave the unknown, even if they are afraid of it. People still watch to the end of horror movies even though they know they will regret it shortly after. Often times these films or even TV shows leave a lasting impact on a person emotionally, an impact that can stay with someone way after the two hour movie is complete. Us as humans like to believe that we are stronger than the film and it is simply just

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    The “uncanny”, a Freudian term, is used to describe a situation or feeling that feels familiar and foreign at the same time. Through the writings and ideas of Ernst Jentech, and Sigmund Freud, it is defined. Between them the uncanny is described as "...intellectual uncertainty; so that the uncanny would always, as it were, be something one does not know one’s way about in. The better oriented in his environment a person is, the less readily will he get the impression of something uncanny in regard

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    Once upon a dark and snowy Friday night, a mysterious man named Rabbi Hirsch came out of the dark eeriness of his desolate and abandoned synagogue and asked a boy named Michael Devlin if he could turn on the lights for him. Michael in the book Snow in August by Pete Hamill, at first hesitated, but then he willfully did the task. This started a wonderful friendship between the two Brooklyn residents that brought out the in best each other despite their different backgrounds. However, with the relationship

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    campaigns screamed, “The Birds is Coming” to entice the people into watching the movie. The reason for birds all of species flocking together to kill and to cause chaos still goes unknown today. Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor star in this disastrous horror film that throws the viewer for a loop at the end of all the slaughtering and disorder in a small ordinary town in California. Through choosing a specific setting and dynamic characterization, Alfred Hitchcock shows that nature cannot be controlled

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    By eight o 'clock, the first kaleidoscope of butterflies invades my stomach, he 'll notice I’m not there soon. I remain lying on the sofa with my knees curled close to my chest, my arms wrapped around my knees, cradling myself. A game show occupies the television, but I 'm clueless to what 's happening. The presenter raises the guests ' enthusiasm as he shouts out in joyful banter. The audience claps and cheers when someone wins, I assume. Nevertheless, I can 't concentrate on it, I can 't concentrate

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    My Personal Narrative     One event from my life that I always remember is when I was first starting school. I was wearing a Bright Blue Basketball Shirt and a pair of Bright Blue Basketball Shorts. I woke up very early that day. When my sisters finally woke up they got ready and we went outside to wait for the bus. When the bus came my mom wanted to get pictures of us. So when we arrived at school I went to class. I was extremely nervous but when my teacher told us her name I laughed. She told us

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    The narrative of the New Zealand feature film What We Do in the Shadows (2014) directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, follows the lives of three vampires, Viago, Deacon and Vladislav as they struggle to try to cope with the complexities of modern life. Living in a flat in Wellington, these modern day vampires are faced with the mundanities of everyday life, and things such as paying rent, trying to get into nightclubs and overcoming flatmate conflicts prove to be extremely difficult. What

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    Nikki Schuller Dr. Bryan Carr INFO SCI 341 13 December 2016 Imagine: It’s the weekend and you’ve decided to have a get-away with your friends. The winters have never really seemed to phased you, though this one seems to be much colder than usual. You invite everyone up to your family’s cabin up in the remote woods on Blackwood Mountain, a snow-covered mount of rocks in western Canada. Everyone is together, but as the night progresses you have a sense of someone watching you through the windows of

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    I. Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw” a young Governess is hired by a wealthy man who is the uncle to two children that live in Bly, the estate and setting in which the story takes place. In the ghastly tale by James, the Governess begins to notice things that are out of place. The old manor is home to a host of souls that have perished previous to her arrival, which leaves the governess on edge as she becomes more and more aware of the odd happenings in Bly. The story focuses on the haunting

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