Horror film

As Tim Burton says, “One person’s craziness is one person’s reality.” This quote shows how his films portray his crazy thoughts to others, but it is actually what he happens to consider being normal. Tim Burton is an animator and film director that is influenced by Roald Dahl and E.A Poe. Burton is best known for his use of dark children’s stories and gothic fantasies in films like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie finds the…

The old-fashioned film projector creates vintage look of the City of Los Angeles in the 1950s in the theatre. Scrolls is uncovered across the back wall of the stage, depicting Chavez Ravine, a hillside community of Mexican Americans in L.A. In the stressful atmosphere, a women is wiped out of her home, and the Chaves Ravine is bulldozed. Suddenly, the theatre is lighten up, and filled with big yelling out of a baseball game. We are still in the place, where used to be Chavez Ravine, but now is…

the children Peter and Wendy had actually (although indirectly) killed their parents with the help of a futuristic technological invention - the “nursery.” The nursery was an “all dimensional superreactionary, super sensitive color film” room that had “mental tape film behind glass screens.” It was first introduced with it “imitating” an African veldt for the children’s parents George and Lydia. After witnessing the too realistic veldt, the parents had begun to consider locking the nursery up in…

Harold Chasen is one of the two main characters of the book “Harold and Maude“ by Colin Higgins. Shortly after the book had been published in 1971, the movie of the same name, directed by Hal Ashby, hit the theatres. In the novel, Harold, an introverted, death-obsessed boy, meets Maude, an old, freedom-loving lady. The reader witnesses Harold’s development under her influence. As the story is told from Harold’s point of view, the reader does not get a lot of information about his outer…

Fear is an emotion that leads people to do things they would not normally do. It awakens a sector of a personality they never knew they had. A major recurring theme in World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is fear as a driving force. Fear leads to insanity, inhumanity, and unity. In most wars, fear is liability that burdens both sides. If one side is able to capitalize on the fear of their opponents, this may give them the upper hand. However, when one side happens to be the living dead…

Frequently, popular novels are adapted into motion pictures. A novel that I have recently read that has been made into a motion picture is Warm Bodies. Warm Bodies is a story about a world where a plague divided the planet’s population into two different species, Humans and Zombies. The tale takes place in some city with a zombie named R and a human girl named Julie. One day R saw Julie and had a sudden urge to save her.. Which he did. The story continues from there as these two encounter many…

Cinematic techniques is the figurative language of film. Different film techniques are showcased in order to better enhance meaning and emotions. Tim Burton uses sound, lighting, and camera point of views, to create suspense, joy, fear, and anger. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Corpse Bride, Tim Burton uses diegetic sound to foreshadow a negative event that may occur. For example,in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Augustus was given the opportunity to taste any…

The Human Story There is approximately 7.5 billion people on Earth. Within those 7.5 billion people, there is something similar between all of them. Something similar between a child in Syria, who has never seen anything other than war and a rich, republican woman who has everything she could ever ask for. The thing that connects these people is emotion. Lust, hatred, anticipation, sorrow and delight are emotions that every single person perceives. By examining human stories from around the…

lurking in the woods can make the most formidable characters cower in fear. This show can utilize the horrors of a post-apocalyptic world and create a group of survivors holding on to their humanity a family that will do anything for one another. This is the world of The Walking Dead. There have been multiple television shows and movies that focus on zombies, however, The Walking Dead takes horror television quality to a new length with astonishing plot twists, complex characters, and powerful…

The most recent movie I can recall watching that deals with abnormal behavior is American Psycho directed by Mary Harron and staring Christian Bale. This has been one of my favorite movies (and books) for several years primarily due to its deep cultural satire. The movie follows the life of millionaire Patrick Bateman, who is secretly a psychotic serial killer. A series of abnormal, and disturbing, events are presented, including Bateman obsessing over his routine and physical appearance,…