" Mimic, however, is to Jones the beginning of horror's conscious assessment of the ideology that spawned the horror in the first place: [Mimic] is neither campy, nor self-conscious. It is a classic creepy film in the tradition of Them!,…and b Continue Reading...
Cutter, in an attempt to vindicate the young woman, and also to clear Bone's name, develops a conspiracy theory that fingers J.J. Cord, a prominent businessman, as the murderer. While many people dismiss Cutter's theory as being a delusion, he is pr Continue Reading...
Horror What is Horror? According to Sigmund Freud, das unheimliche -- or the uncanny -- can be defined as something that is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. In horror films, the uncanny can be achieved through the depiction of a series of Continue Reading...
Horror Movies So many great horror movies have been made over the years that choosing eight is difficult, although the best of them all have certain elements in common that makes viewers crave them, and often leads to many sequels. If the same formu Continue Reading...
Horror films date back over a century ago starting with the 3-minute short film “Le Manoir du Diable (1896)” popularly known as “The House of the Devil” by film's earliest visionaries, Georges Méliès (Ro Continue Reading...
While the characters and situations may not be extremely complex, there are things that bind the films together and make them attractive to the viewer. For example, some films, such as "Rosemary's Baby," "The Exorcist," and "The Eyes of Lara Mars" u Continue Reading...
It lets us know that we have participated in a universal human experience and laughter follows that catharsis. Romantic comedies set the heart pounding in the same way that horror movies do. They take you on a ride, where conflict looms at one mome Continue Reading...
There is a chapter entitled "Getting Even" which talks about many films that have rape as a story line and the victim gets even. This chapter was the most obscure to me, because many of the films the author mentioned did not seem to fit into the ho Continue Reading...
She said, "What is the point? I don't want to make myself feel that way. I would rather watch something that makes me feel good." Having no need for meditated horror, Fan simply said, "Oh you mean like Nightmare on Elm Street or something?" when ask Continue Reading...
In Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, the selfishness seems even more chilling. Henry's murder spree starts with the death of two prostitutes, and it is the lack of significance that Henry gives to those murders that is startling. It would probably Continue Reading...
" (p. 52) Some of the famous action adventures include the latest ventures like Transformers. It is a classic example of new age action adventure movies which has a great deal of science fiction involved. Some action adventures also include a health Continue Reading...
The spectator is unwittingly sutured into a colonialist perspective. But such techniques are not inevitably colonialist in their operation. One of the innovations of Pontocorvo's Battle of Algiers is to invert the imagery of encirclement and exploit Continue Reading...
Question 5. There have been several memorable moments in the films we have watched in class. For instance, in the Leopard Man, the scene in which the killer believes to hear castanets being played and a woman walking towards him provides psycholog Continue Reading...
Film Analysis The Last Kiss Never before has Takashi Kusama reached the perverted depths of sadism as he has through 2003's The Last Kiss. The Last Kiss is based on American Gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Ligeia" in which an unnamed Continue Reading...
Film: The Historical Impact of Melodrama In the first half of the 19th century, classical cinema was the norm in the American film industry, and filmmakers had become accustomed to uniform styles for creating visuals and sounds used in making motion Continue Reading...
Because of Haynes use of dolls, I was much more interested in Karen's story; I most likely would not have been interested in the film if it simply approached her story from the same perspective as other filmmakers. Horror films can be subdivided in Continue Reading...
Cain (afterward coupled by Mickey Spillane, Horace McCoy, and Jim Thompson) -- whose books were also recurrently tailored in films noir. In the vein of the novels, these films were set apart by a subdued atmosphere and realistic violence, and they p Continue Reading...
In fact, the reviewer seemed to make it clear that this film would provide insight even for people well-familiar with the comfort women story. Three survivors talk about what they endured as comfort women, and how that has continued to impact them a Continue Reading...
Film Analysis: "Boesman and Lena" -- a drama of ideas, not people The central protagonists of Athol Fugard's drama "Boesman and Lena" have what turns out to be a nearly impossible life task. Not only, the drama suggests, must they struggle to surviv Continue Reading...
Conclusion It is hard to deny that Sophie's Choice indeed has the trifecta of what I believe good movie-making needs: superb acting, sound, and cinematography, as it was nominated excellence in acting (won by Meryl Streep), cinematography, and mus Continue Reading...
In this area, meanings with their endless referrals evolve. These include meanings form discourses, as well as cultural systems of knowledge which structure beliefs, feelings, and values, i.e., ideologies. Language, in turn, produces these temporal Continue Reading...
These blows come in the form of beatings and disappointments encountered by Antoine while he is a student at a prison-like school. Truffaut paints the starkness of his reality effectively in his use of black and white hues. The boys are dressed main Continue Reading...
Film Analysis on Farewell, My Concubine Farewell, My Concubine: Lies that become realities The film Farewell, My Concubine uses the lens of two men's lives to chronicle the political and social upheavals that gripped China first during the communis Continue Reading...
Horror Show at the Cineplex Perform a comprehensive analysis of the five competitive forces. Discuss what level of competition can be anticipated amongst industry rivals. Attaining only modest to flat growth of .8% from 2006 to 2011 and a projected Continue Reading...
Film Argument- Night and Fog (1955) and Hiroshima My Love (1959) by Alain Resnais (France) In the films Night and Fog (1955) and Hiroshima My Love (1959), both directed by the French film director Alain Resnais, the filmmaker attempts to speak the u Continue Reading...
Movie Sideways Sideways Sideways is two hour tribute to drunk driving and friends who should all consider joining AA together. In it Jack, a voice-over advertisement actor, and Miles, the author of an unpublishable book, swing through California wi Continue Reading...
The way that it uses John Alpert, a therapist who consulted a great deal of important Wall Street figures, with the purpose of showing how these people were basically no different from ordinary criminals (seeing prostitutes and using cocaine) when c Continue Reading...
On their way the group picks up a hitchhiker who seems to be visibly sick from the heat and possibly crazy. However, the hitchhiker goes on to torment and violently threaten the group, so they leave him on the side of the road. Once the group final Continue Reading...
Silent Film And How Critical Reception Shifts Over Time The objective of this study is to examine the film Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari or 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and to examine silent film and how critical reception shifts over time. The fil Continue Reading...
DISASTERS Hollywood Movies made on Disasters Disaster-Based Movies Titanic (1997) World Trade Centre (2006) Response to Disaster Movies Reasons for Watching Disaster Movies The Impacts of Natural Disasters on Mental Health Traumas and Weaknes Continue Reading...
However, despite these limited concerns about the films brutality, the vast majority of critics viewed and continue to view the film as being a cinematic breakthrough and horror classic. Not only has it influenced the spawn of numerous sequels and Continue Reading...
Could this movie possibly fall into the category of a conspiracy; that any fictional parody of male behavior (which this surely is, at least in part) becomes in fact a parody of female behavior as well? Is that what irks feminists about the Stepfor Continue Reading...
These subsequent Draculas are all pretenders to the throne, thanks to the iconographic excellence that emerged in the 1922 version. Indeed, subsequent Draculas in many cases have taken on slick, well-dressed, classy appearances, quite the opposite o Continue Reading...
Silence of the Lambs The movie Silence of the Lambs, released in 1991 has remarkably portrayed suspense, horror, intrigue and crime in such a mesh that is commendable in its story baseline and continues to thrill people of all generation with the pl Continue Reading...
Taking this into consideration, formalist films always try to come up with the idea that are merely personal imaginations, and events in the film are practically impossible in real life situations. Due to this, the style used in formalist films is u Continue Reading...
Frankenstein-Movie Reading about cloning is very disturbing. Scientists should not try to play God. Messing with the natural cause of life can have unforeseen consequences. They should remember the classic novel by Mary Shelley "Frankenstein." Its p Continue Reading...
In a mirror of the earlier scene where the police officer kicked the dead triad, the elevator doors attempt to close on his body, symbolizing the complete destruction of Chan's identity and humanity, as nothing is left but a piece of meat slumped on Continue Reading...
Director John McTiernan's 1999 film, The 13th Warrior, is a competent movie, made entertaining by its tight storyline, moody tone, masterful cinematography, realistic and often graphic fight scenes, and the strength of its supporting cast. A great de Continue Reading...
The “mother” of all other horror movies, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho transformed the directorial, cinematographic, and narrative style of cinema (“Psycho - How Alfred Hitchcock Manipulates An Audience”). Especially in the Continue Reading...
