Splatter film

The violence of the films Funny Games and Cannibal Holocaust is perpetrated by human beings. In Funny Games, cruelty is dealt with a heavy but nonchalant hand by highly creepy, unnaturally polite and detached young men who repeatedly call out the audience on their nature and motivations. By asking the audience if we are sated, our thin immersion within the film is broken and we find ourselves suddenly disconnected and forced into introspection. Why are we watching this? Is this entertaining? Even though Cannibal Holocaust turned the perpetrators of violence into something that was superficially and customarily separate from “us” --the victims, and the audience--the same fear of our fellow man was created. No matter how “other” the tribal peoples were, they were human beings and therefore the horror instilled in viewers was that same horror and introspective confusion created by viewing Funny Games. Like Cannibal Holocaust, Funny Games calls to our attention the human capacity for needless cruelty but it also forces us to examine how we filter and…

Ulrich Seidl’s new documentary, “In the Basement”, is mordantly funny, creepily outrageous, and boldly raw. The film gathers a set of suburban Austrian people, who expose themselves by allowing us to peak on what’s going on in their basements. Clearly, the whole is weaker than the sum of the parts, however, my voyeuristic side was awaken by the intimate little secrets it keeps unveiling, even if a couple of unnecessary scenes are there only with the purpose of shocking the viewers. The idea and…

premier; and once it came out, many were pleased but not in the way they were expecting. The creative story behind It is that every twenty-seven years the clown, Pennywise, makes an appearance in the town to abduct children; so, this is basically the background of the story to set up the plot, yet it is not the attention grabber throughout the movie. While the label of horror to the movie It does not really hold strong, the selection of actors and the skills of makeup save the film and make it…

Ironically many individuals say they don't understand contemporary art as, dissimilar to Egyptian tomb painting or Greek model, made since 1960 mirrors our own particular past. Contemporary art gallery online is a hard to characterize however has been classified as an aesthetic work made in our lifetime, in the late twentieth and mid-21st century. Art from this class traverses all types, from painting and sculpture to film and everything in the middle. Contemporary art prints online, is many…

homonymous manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, "Death Note" is the most commercially successful title of the list having spawned video games, light novels, an anime series, a two-part film, a spin-off movie, while a new film is scheduled to screen this October. This entry is for the first two films. The story follows Yagami Light, a student who discovers a notebook, that when someone writes a name of someone in it, this individual dies after a few days. L is world renowned detective, part…

in a way that is critical, cut it. You’re setting a stage not making a splatter painting. 2. Lighting…

Ju-on: The grudge is one of the biggest film expressing the ideas of cinematic hybridity on globalisation in term of its local cultural and westernized hybridity. Throughout the film, it demonstrated the ideas of socio-cultural in Japan’s society and the national identity of Japanese horror film with the hybridization of western slasher film. The chosen scene in Ju-on: The Grudge is at the ending of the film between Kayako, the vengeful spirit that kill everyone who’ve entered the house; and…

techniques and psychological impact. Night of the Living Dead better represents the horror genre than Carnival of Souls because of its use of characteristics, stereotypes and technical components throughout the film. A typical movie that is categorized in the horror genre follows a set of general characteristics. These characteristics play strong roles in both films. The first characteristic being a horror movie has a psychological impact on the viewers. In the Night of…

genre of films and literature which stimulates negative emotional reactions of its viewers and readers respectively. The reactions would primarily be fear, shock, terror, anger and pure agony. “The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out…

Director, writer, producer, and actor Quentin Jerome Tarantino (1963 – present) is considered one of the greatest directors of his generation. His films have been seen all around the world. Quentin Jerome Tarantino (1963 – present) is credited with directing nineteen television shows, short films, and full feature films. He has also been credited with writing over twenty-five television shows, short films, and full feature films. This paper will discussed Quentin Tarantino’s (1963 – present)…