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    violent and sexual images in horror movies from the 1980s to 1990s. The main point of the article is researching on victims' gender and connection between sex and murders in slashers. Horror movies of the 1960s-1970s were thrillers featuring awful bloodbath. Blood and violent picture attracted audience of young movie fans. Such movies as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Halloween pointed out the commercial success of cruel images on the screen. The era of 1980s' horror movies is described as…

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    It was so weird. It was like I didn't even remember that day. I stood up but felt dizzy and felt as if I was walking in circles and circles. But I eventually was able to get up and find and staff member and tell her what had happened. But the problem was what happened, I just couldn't remember what had happened. Then I remembered that I had hit my head on a rock it was sore and pounding. Once I made my way to the sycamore lounge had started to feel very sick like I was going to vomit. But I held…

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    Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany once said, “Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination.” And that is exactly what he did for 12 long years. It all started with Germany’s blitzkrieg (a fast, overwhelming invasion) on Poland. Then led to the establishment of 20,000 concentration camps. The most notorious of them was Auschwitz. The holocaust lasted 12 years. There were many dangers of being a certain race or religion in the 1930’s and ‘40’s, as talked about in…

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    Frankenstein by Mary Shelley definitely qualifies to be placed in the horror genre of books. It has many of the elements needed to be a horror story. There are many extreme and lonely landscapes in Frankenstein, for example, the desolate island that Victor creates and destroys Frankenstein’s companion. The mysterious atmosphere also keeps the reader guessing what will happen next, and the creation of Frankenstein is also supernatural but it is explained in the story. There is also very high…

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    caretaker of. She chooses to shoot the guy and get the money, then goes home and finds her brother had killed himself because he didn’t want her to have to deal with him. Would You Rather is completely opposite from the average horror film. It is a realistic horror, one that is actually possible. The antagonist survives with no harm to him, and the movie was mainly set in a bright room, unlike the dim lighting of most movies. But the biggest difference comes in the type of fear given off. In…

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    audience feel more scared like they are actually in that forest. You usually see this camera views in action but mostly in the horror films because the audience are more attracted to those. If you think about it, horror films tend to make it more believable and then not really relatable when it comes to their stories. Like we live in reality, and we hope nothing from horror films like The Purge. We hope that nothing from that movie comes out into this world because it be very dangerous and who…

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    When I was little I always hated horror movies and I also hated the show Goosebumps especially “the night of the living dummy” 1, 2, and 3. Today I will be talking about an Author whose books made it on the screen. Stephen King is an Author who made history over the past 40 years. Stephen King was born on September 21 1947 in Portland Maine. Before he started writing when he was a Teacher when he wrote the book ‘Carrie’. King married Author Tabitha Spruce in 1970. So basically King’s life is…

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    Horror Through Time As time passes, the amusement of people to be entertained remains the same. In the 19th century, the horror genre was brought out to the public and it catched many people’s attention and to this day, it has the eyes of a great amount of the population. In the horror story, “August Heat,” by W.F Harvey, the author portrays a variety of methods of suspense. Harvey uses foreshadowing, character in peril and turn of events to show the suspense in the story. Throughout the whole…

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    is a flowing trend of a desexualized mothers. In this essay the interpretation is of both Japanese Horror, and Japanese Noodle Western. In movies such as Like Dark Water and Tampopo the reoccurring trend of the asexual mother is shown. Through the articles of The Ambivalent Self of the Contemporary Japanese, Filming “Chinatown: Fake Visions, Bodily Transformations, and Introduction to Japanese Horror Film the mix of the Western, Japanese and Chinese’s cultures intertwined. The film Tampopo by…

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    The shining is a horror fiction novel by the author Stephen King. Stephen King is famous for his novels in the horror genre and The Shining is just one of the many thrilling books he has written. The Shining tells the story of a family of three: Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy Torrance, and their son Danny Torrance and the winter they spend at the Overlook Hotel. The Shining tells a great horror story, but what makes it a memorable book is the amount of detail that Stephen King provides the reader…

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