Nightmare

there will be sequels and remakes down the road. Sometimes, the preceding movies don’t always live up to the status of the original. When looking at the 1984 original movie ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ and its 2010 remake, there are a variety of similarities and differences. One difference between the movie ‘A Nightmare on Elm…

Everlasting Nightmare On January 30, 1933 the shocking Holocaust begin. The unimaginable malevolence was unleashed on the Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party. German troopers rash the innocent homes of Jews, forcing them to bow underneath. The Jews living an everyday normal life were now a target for an inhuman evil man, Adolf Hitler. We read and learn about the terrifying demonstrations in the concentration camps by unique and individual stories from the surviving Jews. I believe their stories…

In Set it Off’s song “Nightmare”, the speaker continuously references a monster or beast that they mentally create, which causes them distress. However, through the metaphorical meanings of the song’s lyrics, a deeper message about the speaker tries to convey to the listeners about his fears and anxieties is prevalent. During the chorus, the main focus that the speaker refers to is “a monster, a beast inside my brain.” Obviously the speaker does not have a literal monster or beast living in his…

Do you think The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween or Christmas movie? I think this movie is a Halloween movie. This essay with persuade the reader that The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween movie because most characters are Halloween based, the main setting is in Halloweentown, and Christmas gets ruined. First, I will discuss how majority of the characters are Halloween. The main characters are Halloween based, along with the protagonist, and the antagonist. They are all like…

In the Nightmare Beast, War and the Children in William Goldings Lord of the Flies from Academic Search Complete, Joyanta Dangar describes how wartime trauma induces nightmares into the minds of the young boys. To begin with, Dangar explains the nature of the beast in the novel itself. She underscores that the beast in an externalization of the inner darkness that exists within all human beings. The beast is believed to have originated since the boys lack a comforting mother figure to make the…

Alan Wake's American Nightmare follows the adventures of Alan Wake as he attempts to chase down and thwart the schemes of his mysterious double by rewriting reality. As interesting as this may sound, the premise is ultimately let down by shallow combat and uninspired environments. In a story which seems so incredibly bizarre at first glance, it is a shame that the game which surrounds it is so average. Alan Wake's American Nightmare markets itself as a third person horror game, but fails to…

After viewing the film Darwin’s Nightmare, it is easier see how dependent theory is applied in the real world. Tanzania can be used as a case study for dependent development, as well as many other impoverished nations in Africa. According to lecture, dependency theory states that global capitalism has a “core” (the rich), and a “periphery” (the poor). Resources of all sorts flow from the periphery of poor and underdeveloped states to the core of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the…

The Horror Genre has many dynamic components to make it what it is.The three works I am using are The Nightmare before Christmas, The cinderella story, and High Beams. These 3 pieces of work use archetypes, setting and mood to achieve the horror genre and draw the reader into the story or movie.The horror genre is best represented by a spooky setting that helps set up the story. Most of the time a horror passage will have some type of archetype that is in danger or trouble. Then they will have…

by a mother’s worst nightmare. It was late in the night and I was laying down to go to bed, when my mother’s worse nightmare was about to begin, but this wasn’t just my mother’s nightmare, it was also mine. It was a nightmare I had lived for almost three months before working up the courage to speak up- I wouldn’t even consider it courage, it just had gotten to the point where I couldn’t face the darkness alone. I had realized I was never going to wake up from this nightmare on my own. One night…

Everybody has a dream. Some Nightmares, some dreams. In the book Of Mice and Men, Lennie and George shared the same dream. The two lived out on their own, traveling from farm to farm looking for work. The book took place in the great depression, so like the name, they were in the heart of one. George and Lennie were partners in crime in the time. Always together, working, eating, and I bet sometimes sleeping, when Lennie gets a little frightened. The two even shared a dream, and it was a cool…