This movie, directed by Joseph Sargent, drew the attention of numerous people thanks to the leading actors and actresses. Because of their off-screen…
The Darkness and Sorrow of Pan’s Labyrinth Today’s fairytales are often transformed into morality tales to fit our current values and are often stripped of the darkness and sorrow that is surrounding the story. However, this is not a common occurrence and it has been done over years, so that the more gruesome fairytales, with dark, and gruesome scenes, would be more suitable for younger audiences. In “Pan’s Labyrinth” Guillermo Del Toro is able to incorporate those gruesome and darker scenes to “depicts a struggle between good and evil” (2). In Mike Perschon review of “Pan’s Labyrinth”, he talks about embracing those appalling, sorrowful, and cruel scenes because “Without those harsh elements the film would be a milquetoast modern fairytale”…
A great number of people enjoy the feeling of being frightened whether by a movie, story, play, or whatever else. Even so, most like to have a little scare every now and then. In Lucille Fletchers, The Hitchhiker, a man is taking a road trip from Brooklyn to California. However, it is not just an average road trip. The main character, Ronald Adams, comes across a mysterious man on the way.…
She catches superbly the pith of a courageous woman who is fighting her internal and external demons. Only Julia sees this slippery shadowy tormentor; the police and her spouse are careless or fairly oblivious to the killer after Julia. Luis Homar, Julia's spouse, kept things captivating, and whatever remains of the cast succeeded in amazing exhibitions as well. A characters' number fell in a strange classification that made you doubt their inclusion at least were eventually composed…
The film ‘Edward Scissorhands’ did considerably well in establishing the Outsider concept. There is not much at all to be dissatisfied with relating to this film. Burton displayed Edward as an accurate Outsider, showing his loneliness and others non acceptance towards him. This motion picture is truly poetic with it’s numerous underlying themes and a wonderfully woven storyline.…
Human beings are emotional creatures. We can be happy, sad, scared, and angry all at the same time. Some can be described as overly emotional, dramatic, cold, and crazy, but just how accurate and exclusive or inclusive are these given stereotypes, more importantly crazy? “Why we crave horror films?” by Stephen King is about the underlying reasons human beings are so drawn to the production of horror films and rollercoasters, what they bring out in us, and why we keep going back for more. King argues that horror movies satisfy an important and essential human necessity of grim impulse and socially unacceptable desires in everyone.…
Through the agency of this familiar intertextual link, Kubrick further illustrates Alex’s desensitisation from violence, which is more terrifying than Kubrick employing a silent rape…
The story starts out with a fifteen year old girl writing in a diary that she had just bought. Her name was never actually stated since she’s writing the journal about her own life, but as a reader, I could only assume that her name was Alice. When she first got her journal she only wrote about topics like school, boys, and fitting in. Her family eventually ends up moving to a different town after her dad gets a new job. She’s worried about making new friends at her new school and fitting in.…
In this film, Laura (1944) we are introduced to a group of corrupt and fittingly shady upper-class social order types. The focus is on particular conventions of content, like themes or settings and/or form, including structure and style (Goodykoontz & Jacobs 2014). This film will be critiqued by the author through the lens of the genre theory (AMC, n.d.). The genre theory allows critics to take a short cut to categorize films. The director woks with the time-period and has a vision and that includes the audience he wishes to engage.…
Another example of a film done right is Precious. Precious is a film that will forever be embedded into the minds of those who watch. Precious is dark and sometimes visually shaking. People resonate with the abuse that the main character undergoes. Throughout her childhood, precious is abused and raped by her parents.…
When I first read the title of the movie, I did not think that it was going to be about Alzheimer disease. “Still Alice” appears to be a positive movie title. Consequently, I thought that the movie would be based on something positive. While I watched the movie, I learned that the character is facing the hardship of a rare disease (familial Alzheimer’s disease). The biggest question if whether the character is still Alice because of the changes that she is going through with her disease.…
The Many Faces of Alice Alice Lee Hudson, while technically not the main character of her featured film, is the primary subject of which the movie is based around. Surprisingly enough, John Carpenter’s The Ward stars everyone but Alice as the women of North Bend Psychiatric Hospital fight for their lives against an unknown demonic entity. As each of the girls begin disappearing from their ward one by one, it is revealed that the aforementioned entity is actually Alice and that the other patients are nothing but delusions representing the various pieces of her fractured personality. The main problem Alice faces from the experiences depicted in the film is her ability to remain in control of her own body, ultimately finding herself overpowered…
The horror genre has, more or less, become one that ignites our deepest fears and desires. The sub-genre of zombie films force audiences to question themselves on many different aspects about life. Surely, concepts such as the uncanny and allegorical meanings arise when discussing such texts. The zombie horror has seen significant change over the past few decades, the most notable being the quality of production, graphics and costume. From white paint applied to the face to now detailed graphics that show the gore and horror of living dead.…
Traditionally almost all horror films have focused on treating women in a negative manner. Regardless, from time to time there have been strong female characters that were represented in horror movies. Mehls argues that since most horror films target young adults, some of these women went beyond the traditional roles, and became role models for women. Over recent decades the ways in which women are represented in horror movies, and the means by which women have successfully come out of the shadows has altered the genre of horror films. For the most part, such changes can be attributed to bigger societal movements such as the Second and Third Wave Feminism.…
Films are universally known to generalize individuals especially in relation to their gender. Though they contain different themes, movies follow a similar pattern; the beautiful, innocent woman is recused by an attractive, strong male. In Carol J. Clover’s article, “Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film”, she explores a new emerging pattern in horror cinema where the woman herself becomes the hero. Clover’s purpose in writing her article is to help her audience become familiar with the idea of cross gender identification. This is where the male audience is compelled to associate themselves with the strong independent female.…