Horror Story Essay

streets, and even most of the space around her. Then, gradually, the portion of Nina with black clothes on, red eyes, and black feathers from her back grows as the movie moves toward the end. By this part, given that most people learn from bedtime stories and many movies that the evil eventually experiences a downfall, the audiences may guess that Nina’s play might have a bad…

On February 23, I had to opportunity to see the new Black Panther Movie, and I thought it was good, with a really good line here and there, but it was not anything spectacular. I am sure, though, that it will be a better live action Lion King adaptation than the one coming out with Beyoncé in it, as the plot of Black Panther mirrors the original Lion King. The Acting was good, as good as we have come to except from a Marvel movie, but nothing ground breaking. Chadwick Boseman and Letitia Wright…

German Expressionism was well known to be bold, dark, distorted and spooky. It was emerged in Germany before World War I but, it tremendously influenced music, theater, painting, sculpture and architecture. These German Expressionism films at first were non-realistic, geometrically absurd angles, as well as designs painted on walls and floors represent light, shadows and objects. Meanwhile, many of these films plots dealt with madness, insanity, betrayal and other intellectual topics were…

From movie to movie, Tim Burton expresses a grotesque sensibility, while characterizing a socially awkward difference. He uses many techniques to torment the detail of his characters and their differentiated personality from their setting. To take into consideration, there are the movies Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, along with Big Fish to show the wide variety of techniques and their desired effect. Burton’s desired effect is to alter the audience’s emotions and builds…

Ratatouille Review Ratatouille is an extremely unique movie, with the story coming out of two writer’s minds instead of being based on a fairytale. Of course, Pixar is known for their creative minds, but this movie is a complete deviation from the norm. Rats are usually seen as disgusting and unlikable, but this movie is both a fan favorite and very well reviewed, with the characters being memorable and the tone of the movie being perfectly French. Ratatouille is a modern classic that has…

the 18th generation) is taken extremely seriously. All in all I can conclude that culture influences cursing as much as it influences every other type of language. I think the producers of ‘The King’s Speech’ had this in mind too. The film tells the story of King George VI, also called ‘Bertie’, and his struggle to overcome his stutter. When Bertie becomes king after his brother abdicates, he decides to hire a speech therapist called Lionel Logue. The therapist has some interesting methods…

to sci-fi, moviegoers love the opposites attract chemistry that these on screen homosocial relationships spark, as well as the stories they tell about men and the times in which they live. Though interracial films are commonplace today, the genre didn’t even exist until The Defiant Ones was released in 1958. Directed by Stanley Kramer, The Defiant Ones depicts the story of a black convict (Sidney Poitier) on the run after escaping a failed prison transport. However, Cullen is not alone; in…

Callum Watt 000873235-3 Soundtrack Analysis - Psycho In the clip that we are provided (known as “The Murder) we are given a very famous and influential scene from one of Alfred Hitchcock's most critically acclaimed films. Bernard Herrmann, the composer for the movie did a sensational soundtrack with a low budget, and even went against Hitchcock’s wishes of the score to be jazz based. With the low budget instead of using an entire orchestra Herrmann only used strings to create an arguably more…

when a little girl, Boo, enters the extraterrestrial world. Although the story is about changing tradition and love, it reveals the intimate relationship between fear and the individual. Moving away from fuzzy blue monsters and green spheres with legs, monsters still serve as an indication for the fears of specific time periods. Set somewhere between the 5th and 6th century, Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney, is the story of a brave warrior who fights three, not so fluffy, monsters to save…

expert editing. The “shower scene” from Psycho is where this incredibly skilful editing creates intense emotion in a fairly small time space through the strategic use of action, direction, form and concept edits which all ultimately add to the thriller-horror narrative of the film. The first edit in the “shower scene” is a direction edit as the shot where Marion Crane holds her hand out with the torn-up pieces of paper in it cuts to the direction, which is the toilet, where she throws the pieces…