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    Red Eye Film Analysis

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    Red Eye is quite possibly my favorite non-slasher from Wes Craven. It's full of suspense, dread and in my opinion some of the best acting to come out of 2005. Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy carry this film on pure chemistry and intensely memorable performances that linger after viewing, coupled with Wes Craven's growth is a director which is very apparent when viewing this film so soon after some of his earlier works. I hadn't seen this film since the year it was released and was excited to revisit it, wondering if it would hold up and be as good as I remembered it. It was. Red Eye follows Lisa Reisert (Racheal McAdams) the acting manager of Lux Atlantic a prestigious hotel, catching the Red Eye flight back home after attending her grandmothers…

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    The Hills Have Eyes was Wes Craven's second directorial film after The Last House on the Left (I'm not counting his stint as Abe Snake directing The Fireworks Woman). Much like The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes has a gritty, low budget, violent look, having been shot on 16mm film. Given the budget of approximately $230,000, Wes Craven was able to craft a violent, sometimes humorous horror film that to this day is still quite popular among the horror crowd. The film has gone on to…

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    Key figures which greatly influenced the genre and by extension, society. When discussing about the success of a movie, one of the first reason that people can think about is the film director. Of course, actors and other people have put a lot effort to the movies, but the one, who have the most responsibility to the movie, is still the director. All the movie’s process, most likely is toward his direction. There are two famous directors of horror genre, who contributed so many valuable movies…

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    Freddy Krueger was created because of a story that Wes Craven read about in an LA newspaper. The story is of a child that survived the killing fields of Cambodia and made it to the United States. The family made it to the United States and the child continuously told his parents of this creature that would come into his dreams and chase him. The creature would try and kill him every time. Each time the child told his parents of this, his parents just thought their child had an overactive…

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    The Conjuring

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    story with a touch of perfection, James Wan tells us the terrifying real story about the Perrons family, Ed and Lorraine Warran in a haunted Rhode Island farmhouse during the 70s. With the special support and consult from the real Perron sisters and Lorraine Warren, who is now 86 years old, director James Wan and the filmmakers were able to create a film inspired by the actual case files and recordings dealing with their haunting experience. Based on the number of times I have tried to…

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    From Faith & Brutality to Supernatural Monsters: A Look at the Influences of Wes Craven Raymond Holt COM 320 The 1900s saw a rise in many genres and subgenres in the film industry. One of the biggest to gain popularity was the horror genre. From slasher flicks to supernatural beings, from masked men to grisly monsters, people enjoy being scared. Among the directors that crafted these horror movies was a man who aimed to break the mold of existing horror stereotypes and create new,…

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    Angela Sciarappa Paper type A 10/14/25 Wes Craven and Ingmar Bergman This paper is supposed to be an analysis of a key filmmaker who has been informed by and influenced by earlier creators of film. For my film maker I chose Wes Craven and for his influence I chose Ingmar Bergman. Wes Craven is widely known around the world as the creator of the infamous horror characters Freddy Krueger and Ghost face from Scream. He of course created many other films other than the gruesome tale of Krueger…

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    The society of modern era is surrounded by alienation: nobody has a touch of communication in actual existence. All of them square measure alienated from one another and have lost the values of their culture. Alienation will be a sophisticated, still common condition. It's every scientific discipline and psychological and will have a sway on your health and irritate existing medical conditions. The researcher focuses on one among the various British commentators in this research, the most…

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    These two dystopias are different for similar reasons in many ways. They both have government that want to see both societies happy and thriving. They might go about this in different ways, but they’re both trying to achieve a similar goal. They both use Freudian philosophy. Only Huxley uses his theory about people 's urge for sex, and Demonaco uses the theory for violence. Though these are similar themselves at the same time because both are Freudian theories and both discuss human urges. Freud…

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    Although taking one gramme of soma is harmful to the human body, Bernard indicates that he cares little about his health by taking two pills. Thus, he lives up to the society’s expectations because the ideal New World citizens are those who prioritize the government’s stability over their health. Though Bernard thinks he will never fit into this society, Huxley demonstrates that this corrupt society will find ways to unify everyone under one set of beliefs. In present-day society, people every…

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