The Amityville Horror

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban uses principles of sound, cinematography and elements of Mis En Scene to immerse the audience in the dark and mysterious wizarding world. Sound is a powerful film technique, especially one such as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where sound and sound effects help to shape the understanding of the wizarding world (Bordwell and Thompson, 267). Generally, there are two different types of sound, diegetic and non-diegetic. According to Film…

In David Mitchell’s novel, Cloud Atlas, we see a series of six stories. As we read these stories we began to see that each of them were connected to each other in one way or another. We began to read deeper into things, like what certain objects in the novel represented, if they had a deeper meaning than just being presented to the reader. Specifically in the very first and last parts of the novel we are introduced to is The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing. In this story we see Mr. Ewing go…

people to commit atrocities that are shown on the screen, and the cinema workers themselves, guilty in the defilement of young minds and morals, are victims of those who they have raised. Roman Polanski in his work has specialized in bloody paranoid "horror movies", and his wife Sharon Tate consistently starred in these films. The audience often had the opportunity to contemplate the naked body of the actress, generously smeared with red paint of simulated blood. These pictures were left very…

“The Walking Dead” is a television series that started from a comic book series. The comic book series was well written and became a famous work. This show has won television series awards, such as the “People’s Choice Award for Best Cable Television Series” If a person had a strong stomach, and were looking for a new show to watch then “The Walking Dead” would be the right show for them. “The Walking Dead” is viewed to be nauseously gross or unrealistic, but since it has an excellent story line…

years with new and old characters and new zombies. Not only have new movies been made and old continued, but recent movies have put historical figures at the forefront of this dilemma; one such movie is Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies. To balance out the horror of many zombie apocalypse movies, many producers have made movies that were meant to make the apocalypse seem a bit humorous. One famous movie like this is Sean of the Dead, a movie in which the main character does not even realize there is a…

it could be. According to Lisa Schwarzbaum, "The scariest thing about The Haunting is how awful it is. No, worse than awful: desperate. It's a horror flick afraid of it's own audience." Schwarzbaum also states, "No wonder the audience laughs derisively through scenes not meant for laughter. That isn't the acrid odor of fear we smell in this house of horrors." The only scary scenes in the movie are the writing on the wall and the blood. The scene in the book before Eleanor is forced to leave,…

Shawn McIntosh’s essay, “The Evolution of the Zombie: The Monster That Keeps Coming Back,” ends by suggesting that the reason why zombies, although they are not the most frightening of the monster genre, made their way to being an iconic entity in our imaginations because of the way they comment on the events that are happening during their times and the need to go against societal rules. He also goes on to further imply that even in that kind of chaotic mentality, we find comfort in the sense…

our instinctive reflexes to respond to surprise sudden movements. Sound and musical changes are often accompanied with jump scares to create a spooky mood and atmosphere. Below are ten of the most effective jump scares used in some of the scariest horror movies of all time! 1. Psycho (1960) - The old classics are often the scariest, absent of CGI and modern technology that leaves the filmmaker to rely on other devices, such as music, super talented actors, and the ambiance, mood, and…

Wonka: Charlie and the chocolate factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Alice in the wonderland.Tim Burton does not fall too short of the mark when it comes to action and light heartiness. Burton has a special appeal to horror due to his repeated genre in the movies he has directed, although horror genres aren't the best he has directed. In Tim Burton’s famous movie Edward Scissorhands, he takes an underdeveloped machine and gave it a heart. Created in a what seems…

“The 1970s marks Hollywood’s most significant formal transformation since the conversion to sound film and is the defining period separating story telling modes of the studio era and contemporary Hollywood” Name of the dude who said that An era that started off by breaking new ground and later become what would be a profitable era of block buster entertainment, New Hollywood is recognised as a period where some of the most revered directors rose and some of the most memorable films ever to come…