Horror and terror

landscape of American culture." (2002: 585). Horror films are noted by Derry (1987) as well as King (2004) as being particularly important to analyse. They state how horror films relate to societal fears. Korstanje and Olsen (2011) state how some horror films have discourses of risk as key plot components. They further this explain how the monsters or strangers within this horror films are symbolic of enemies to democracy and the western way of life. Horror films speak to fears within society,…

In the film Prometheus David is an Android, meaning he is not human. He is on board a ship with many other scientists trying to find their creator, David is there to assist them. Although he looks, talks and acts like a human he cannot feel the same way humans do but he can understand human emotions. Despite the fact he is not supposed to feel the way we do, throughout the movie he faces many obstacles dealing with his identity and who he truly is. Therefore, David battles an inner identity…

Thomas hebert Tim Burton style essay Tim Burton is a very well known film director. He is known for movies like the remaking of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Big Fish. He is very unique with his style of lighting, music choices and camera angles. He uses a lot of long shots with high key lighting. He also uses a lot of medium shots with bottom or side lighting making it seem scary especially with his choice of music. One of the best things a director can do is choose the right music…

“Why We Crave Horror Movies,” an article by Stephen King, he explains his view on why we enjoy horror films. He chooses to say we go to fill a somewhat morbid taste for watching someone suffer, as well as using it as a method of triumph, showing others we simply can bare it. King says that if we aren’t feeling quite ourselves or are just feeling off all we really need is a good horror movie to set us right again. He claims that we all have a part in us that craves the gory, horror in films for a…

America has become infatuated with this Western-born monster over the years, most of the interest has been, in part, due to author Stephen King. His monstrous catalogue of novels almost entirely consist of the horror genre. One of his most famous and recognizable creations is Pennywise the Dancing Clown from the 1986 novel IT. Pennywise is an extraterrestrial lifeform that manipulates humans by disguising itself as a clown. After he has drawn someone close enough…

following five movies that caused fatal events, because the next time you walk into a theater, it may be your last. Number Five: Scream. The movie Scream debuted in 1996, featuring the frightening killer Ghostface in a murderous rampage that brought terror to audiences everywhere. However, to the two real-life psychos Daniel Gill and Robert Fuller, Ghostface was seen as a role model. The movie inspired the pair to reenact the first scene of the movie on male victim Ashley Murray. Murray was…

Do fans choose their "team" based on preference for vampires or for werewolves? What comments lead you to believe this? I think that they do not choose their team based on characters because they like some things to attract them. I saw many people watch movies to see what happened and love to watch. I thought that not dependent on based on preference for vampires or for werewolves What attributes of vampires and werewolves lead to this choice? Alternately, do fans choose their "team" based…

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 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…

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…