Horror Story Essay

scholarly works on film remakes as a cultural phenomenon. The contributors to this collection focus on the multiple ways in which horror, science fiction, and fantasy films have been remade and analyze them through a range of perspectives from the philosophical to the technological elements that reside in them. The compilation of these essays all argue that the remakes of horror, science fiction, and fantasy films reveal our recurrent fears, anxieties, and hopes for the future, while offering…

The Big Sleep is an film noir, which was pioneering in crime drama tropes and style. The film utilizes editing techniques and camera work to convey a intricate narrative. One of the most interesting scenes to me was in the opening of the film when Marlowe is talking to General Sternwood which really introduces the main character through his interactions with the old man. The scene also makes good use of the 180-degree rule, shot/reverse shot, and eyeline matching which makes the dialogue between…

The opening first few minutes of a film do a lot to tell the audience what kind of experience they have just sat down to watch. The opening sequence can set up the main characters, the location of the film, time period in which the film is taking place, or it may simply just be a place for credits to go. The opening scene also does a lot in setting up some of the films themes. Comedies for example may start off by a main character telling a joke, or being put in a humorous situation. This gets…

The cinematography is one of the things that stands out most in the movie Vertigo. Not only is the vertigo effect (dolly zoom) fun and intriguing, but even from the beginning of the film, the shots really stand out and are very different from anything we’ve seen in Hitchcock’s earlier films. I liked watching the way the film transitioned from sepia to red and the various zooms to different parts of Madeleine’s face, then to the rotating symbols. All of this seemed very symbolic to me. The sepia…

the film pleasing to his audience’s senses. Another style unique to Tim Burton is the use of motifs such as re-animation and death. Tim Burton uses these styles to not only allude to his fascination of the macabre, but to also maintain the classic horror tradition and imprint his cinematic fingerprint on each of his films. Overall, his manipulation of these two cinematic elements, color and theme, is responsible for his reputation as an astounding film director. Tim Burton uses dark coloration…

Diegetic sounds are sounds that come from the movement or actions seen on screen or in the world of the movie. Diegetic sounds help draw the viewer into the film so that they think they are actually part of it. In films we hear familiar sounds that we hear every day and we can make a connection to them. The sounds that I will add will make the viewer feel suspense as well as a feeling as though they are actually in the film itself. The first sound I will add is known as an ambient sound. An…

Passing the dirty door, she heard moaning and pounding again. Then she heard the door, on the third door break open. Looking up, she swung around and pointed her rifle and got ready to shot anything that was following her. The moans approached, vibrating throughout the staircase. Reaching into one of pockets she pulled out a flash light with her free hand, and on turning it on. She pointed upward and saw something that caused her face to go white, it was a herd of zombies. Moaning looking around…

"The most important parts of a film are the mysterious parts - beyond the reach of reason and language" - Stanley Kubrick Kubricks distinguished movie making was made out of experimentation. Everything is centered around re-invention. It's hard to talk about Kubricks work without overly analysing it, but that should be done because he is one of the most celebrated directors of our time. His film making techniques are striking, but the most important things within his films are exploring the…

I never considered paintings to be the beginning of photography, nor have I ever considered rough sketches of city streets to be its humble beginnings either. I have never gone to an art museum and thought, “hm, maybe this artist was using some sort of camera obscura technique to help see an image clearer, or to see different angles of the image at the same time.” From now on, I will. It is an extremely innovative technique that has never once crossed my mind. Looking at the images in the power…

Looks like you’re in a pickle, and have just been ‘zombified’. It’s certainly likely that you’re puzzled on how to move on with this fresh lifestyle (tons are). Well it’s a darn virtuous miracle that a zombie happened to stumble upon this essay, it has wondrous advice, and can easily create an average, operational and undead zombie! It’s quite an immense step if I do say so myself. Everybody must have an infection left by that outbreak of distasteful and disastrous parasites that turn living…