Horror films

Have you ever wondered why your heart beats fast when you hear the scary music of a horror movie? When something pops out from around the corner? Have you had that nice warm fuzzy feeling when you watch a romantic movie? Well that is what this project is about! The two movies chosen included a scary movie called Lake Placid and the romantic movie was the Notebook. Wanting to know why your heart feels like it going to pop out of your chest for a scary movie, and why your heart feels all nice and…

Fear causes people to do bizarre things. In literature, fear can be used to make the reader feel sympathetic towards the protagonist. In Edgar Alan Poe’s book, The Pit and the Pendulum, Poe uses fear to captivate the reader into wanting to know what happens next. In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, fear is used in two ways, overcoming fear and letting fear ruin your life. There is always some sort of fear in literature, even if it isn't obvious. You can never escape fear, you can only overcome it…

over another. He began film studies his Senior year at Detroit University. Originally he wanted to be a movie critic but decided to become a teacher about book and film studies. He wrote a 500 page dissertation about Norman Mailer, known to be the first independent filmmaker. Dr. J read Mailer’s novels (a couple…

Lloyd Owusu Professor Macfie November 9, 2017 Rus 313-01 Dr. Zhivago Literary Work and Film Comparison The juxtaposition of literature and film has forever haunted the entertainment industry. There is nothing that can replace delving into a novel and getting lost for hours, or rather going to a theatre and watching the pictures unfold on a screen. With a book, the picture in one’s imagination is entirely subject to what the author pens on the pages but with a movie, the story is portrayed…

Grey’s Anatomy: A Superb Medical Drama Have you ever watched a television show that has made you laugh and cry in the same episode? Shows that can make you happy and sad can be considered as a drama genre. Most medical shows exaggerate and portray situations as if they would be impossible to relate to. Grey’s Anatomy is the opposite of any typical medical television show. Grey’s Anatomy is an excellent television drama because it features real life trauma scenes, romantic relationships among…

perceive a villain at a low angle therefore making him more menacing and posing as a threat to Deadpool. A POV shot is shown as Deadpool looks through a bullet hole in his arm, showing how it doesn’t affect him because of his high healing factor. As both films deal with superheroes, close-up shots to establish character are essential, as they allow the viewer to instantly make connections. Both ‘Deadpool’ and…

psychologically damaging people, giving people the wrong idea about life, and making people lazy. To sum it up, entertainment is ruining society. The movies that do the most psychological damage to people are horror movies. The type of damage dealt depends on whether you are a child or an adult. If you see a horror movie as a child, you could be scarred for life. For example, when I was very young, I watched the movie Jaws. Ever since then, I have been extremely afraid to go swimming in the…

In Stephen King 's essay "Why we crave horror movies" he discusses why we urge ourselves to go to events such as movies that make us uncomfortable. People often feel the need to prove ourselves to society, or other people, by showing we aren 't afraid. But this is not the main point of King 's essay. King believes that we are all mentally ill to an extent. With this I agree. Some people more than others, but nonetheless everyone has something that sets them apart from other individuals. We are…

Best places to celebrate Halloween in the World: Halloween is the festival of celebrating the freewheeling spirit and becoming the part of some spooky rituals. With trick- or-treating and costume and theme parties are the main attractions of the Halloween, there are some places around the World to be to experience nerve-wracking fear of the Halloween at the very best. From Dracula's Castle in Romania to the streets of Oaxaca, here are the most haunted and creepiest tourist spots to visit on…

sleep through it, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, and Michael Cane. Inception is a complicated thriller-like movie, that was first intended to be a horror movie, but the director changed it into a Sci-Fi/Thriller movie. I must say, for a once intended horror movie, the movie extremely lacked scares, and I’m 12. The movie however, is thrilling and intense at times. The main fault in the movie is the overcomplicity of the plot. The main…