Night terror

With the title Final Girl I was expecting a twist on the Slasher genre. As the Final Girl is a term from the genre to refers to the heroine who survives and defeats the killer. Often with wit and determination rather than brute force. Which it absolutely isn't, which while initially disappointing Final Girl turned out to be worth every minute of its 84 minute run time. What it turn out to be was a well executed dark thriller with a splash of horror overtones. I say splash because there is a…

The reasons for the terror occurred from the threat of foreign invasion and constant counter-revolutions jeopardizing the survival of the Republic. The circumstances surrounding France during 1793 to 1794 contributed to the use of terror as the newly established power of the National Convention. It faced many threats, in particular, foreign invasions. The outrage which had instigated…

Are you for/against The Assassin, and why? One thing is indisputable regarding the film. It is gorgeous visually, with astonishing cinematography, costumes and in general, production values. However, I think it is lacking in terms of script, and in combination with the scarcity of action scenes, it can be rather tiresome, especially to the viewer expecting the exact opposite from a film of the genre. Actually this is a question regarding if one enjoys art-house films or not, because The Assassin…

These novels could suggest many things about the United States in the year 2016. For example, the effect of popular culture in the society that Collins created versus today’s society. Harmon describes “popular culture” as “The phenomenon of what people really but unofficially do and say,” (Harmon 372). The idea presented by Suzanne Collins in, The Hunger Games feeds the idea of popular culture. The game makers would control many of the elements. People from the Capitol would take excitement from…

Audience Evolutionary psychology has ingrained are minds with fear triggers and survival instinct, fear of the dark, fear of being alone, fear of not being heard, and much more Aristotle apotheosized that humans where attracted to scary stories and violence because it helped them purge negative emotions we now call this catharsis by watching violent movies we as humans are meant to release the pent up feelings we all feel at some point I plan on playing with peoples built in survival instinct…

The first time a transformation truly scared me was in the fourth Harry Potter movie. In it, Lord Voldemort is resurrected in a grotesque scene where he rises out of a cauldron. One of his henchmen, Wormtail, slices open his arm, lets his blood fall into the cauldron, and Voldemort grows from infant to grown man in just a few seconds. The creepy computer-generated Voldemort fetus was utterly terrifying to a six-year-old (I got started on Harry Potter at a very young age). Because of this early…

What, if anything, do the monsters of horror cinema have in common, besides the fact that they are not real? They may be human—just think of Norman Bates, Leatherface, or Hannibal Lechter—but they are not real, in the sense of experientially real. They may even be non-fictional—just think of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990), a film about real-life mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas—but that still doesn't make them real (the Henry of the film is just an actor, Michael Rooker, pretending to be…

Watching television has become a big part of American culture today in society. There is a wide range of different shows not only on television but offered through other online services like Netflix or Amazon. Genre in television shows vary from comedy to drama, but horror genre has made a comeback on television and continues to be popular. The term "horror" to describe as a genre would not be used until after Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931. Cuddon (1984)…

Jacobins had so many enemies among the French citizens because they killed the king, wanted to control the government and were not the only revolutionary group. Robespierre wanted to wipe out every trace of old France to build “A Republic Virtue” The ideals of the revolution are represented by the Declaration of Rights of both man and of citizens. The Committee allowed the country to work under duress and threats of the death penalty to work together. Prior to its establishment in 1973,…

Neil Jordan, in his interview “Life among the Undead: An Interview with Neil Jordan” from Cineaste contributor Declan McGrath (2013), discusses that presenting the female protagonists as monsters, rather than the victims of monsters, in his movie Byzantium creates a varying audience response to the exemplary depiction of vampires. Jordan supports his ideas by explaining the film’s female writer exploring a previously unknown viewpoint, the human emotion subtext in the perfectly cast characters,…