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    Why do people have such a strong opinion on horror movies? Anybody you ask about horror are only going to say 2 things about it. People either love horror or hate it‚ and People who love horror can usually understand why people don’t like horror. But when it comes to the people who don’t like horror‚ they have no clue why someone would want to submit themselves to such tragedies. Steven king has proposed three reasons that people love horror‚ and they are to face our fears‚ to feel normal‚ and to

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    The “Final Girl”: The Exploration of Gender in Slasher/Horror Movies Much is made of the anti-female sentiments expressed in slasher/horror films. The classic scenario or formula used in most slasher movies includes the psycho-killer who slashes to death a string of mostly female victims‚ one-by one‚ until he himself is killed or subdued by the final survivor‚ usually the female lead character. The slasher film is rife with forbidden sexual overtones and graphic bloody violence‚ making

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    watched a movie called “horror story” (2013)‚ which was a film based around people of India. The movie was about seven young adults who decided to spend a night in an abandoned haunted hotel. It was a great movie but I couldn’t avoid the social psychology term stereotype. In the movie‚ the characters ranged from athletic‚ attractive looking men‚ to beautiful‚ innocent females and the sexy (whore-like) females. The stereotypical characters died in the order of the typical horror story that was brought

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    that augments the joy of seeing a film. But I consider there are only a few genres that are capable of making the theater experience meaningful and eternal. The three top categories to see in a cinema are‚ without doubts: suspense‚ horror‚ and action. Suspense movies are the most attention grabbing of the three genres. They bounce a feeling of hesitation and nervousness about the outcome of the multiple actions. With tension being a primary emotion‚ suspense frequently makes people expect bad

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    summer’s day. The second line Shakespeare jumps right into answering the question describing his love as “lovely” and “temperate” (ln 2.) The word temperate has a few different meanings. It could mean self -restrained‚ a mild temperature‚ but also in the time of Shakespeare people would have thought the word meant a balance of the humours. This pretty much means that they believed human behavior was decided by the amount of certains types of fluids in the body. So temperate meant someone had the right amount

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    Connecting this element to the film‚ Chucky repeatedly comes back to life after being attacked and killed multiple times. To be specific in Child Play 2‚ Chucky I killed by being burned by Andy and getting his head‚ leg and arm shot off by another person. In the next film‚ the creator of Chucky known as Good Guy rebuilds the dolls and Chucky is brought back to life. Another insistent‚ in Child Play 3 he is killed by Any‚ but in the Bride of Chucky‚ the sequel‚ he is brought back to life by the help

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    the loving mother. Instead‚ motherhood can likewise revolve around abuse‚ possession‚ monstrosity‚ and hatred. This contradictory role of motherhood is often represented in maternal horror films‚ in which the mother‚ or the female figure‚ is the source of the dysfunctionality and horror within the family. Maternal horror films revolve around the “bad” mothers‚ who are violent‚ anti-social‚ abusive‚ oppressive‚ and dominating. The maternal figure of a “bad” mother challenges the traditional perspectives

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    In the essay‚ “Why We Crave Horror Movies” Stephen King attempts to explain why we love horror movies‚ and he gives a few different reasons why people go to see horror movies. People want to show that they are not scared; people want to have fun; but the main reason that he suggests is that we are insane and we need to watch horror movies to keep that insanity locked up in society. He uses a variety of argumentative strategies and literally decides to prove his thesis. On the other side‚ King surprised

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    Ever since I watched my first horror movie with my friends I have been hooked on watching them. From watching Halloween to the Shining with my friends‚ watching scary movies really bring us together because that’s mostly all we talk about. In order for a horror movie to be considered great‚ they should have certain characteristics. The first characteristic for any horror movie to be considered good‚ the movies must include a crazy killer. One movie that includes a crazy killer is A Nightmare

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    Why We Crave Horror Movies In the essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen Kings‚ Kings claims with some comical examples that “we’re all mentally ill.” In my personally opinion he is absolutely right. Everyone in this world is mentally ill‚ only the level is different. People’s unusual behaviors are the proof of such illness. Kings says that we watch horror movies to “reestablish our feelings of essential normality.” These movies are the source of some kind of fun and extensively help to satisfy

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