The Police in a German city are unable to catch a child murderer whom is “based on the real-life case of child-killer Peter Kurten‚ The “Monster of Dusseldorf”. (http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/29/m.html) The underground crime syndicate decides to take matters into their own hands in an attempt to catch the killer themselves. This is the first serial killer film in cinema history is also the first ‘Talkie’ movie done by German writer/director Fritz Lang. Shot in 1931 five years
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Kim Cummings February 21‚ 2011 Obamacare – Satan’s Healthcare Plan Healthcare reform is a very touchy subject these days. Presidential campaign promises have been made in the past to reform the healthcare system but like a lot of campaign promises‚ they were not kept. There is too much money and politics involved in the current healthcare system. Big insurance companies pay a lot of money to lobbyists to keep the status quo‚ which is more money coming in than paying out. Healthcare reform was
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Horror Fanatics In Stephen King’s article‚ “Why We Crave Horror Movies” published in Playboy in December 1981‚ he gives his opinion on why we love it when he scares us to nightmares. King argues that horror films allow a safe release for what would otherwise be expressed as insane or even criminal behavior. Horror films have been around my life for as long as I can remember. By now you would think I would have a reason I love them so much; to be honest I don’t‚ but there’s just something about
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THE RHETORIC OF SOCIAL HORROR IN THE Nightmare on Elm Street SERIES The Nightmare on Elm Street movie series has enjoyed six successful theatrical releases since 1984‚ and a seventh installment was released in time for Halloween in 1994. It and other successful horror movie series‚ such as Friday the 13th and Halloween‚ are frequently analyzed from Freudian psychological perspectives and characterized as allegories of the psychological dynamic underlying the return of the repressed. Although the
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you’re interested in reading further‚ I’m going to focus on that last part- entertaining villains. I have personally arrived at a point in which I have come to believe that the most unique‚ complicated‚ and noteworthy horror villain is not Freddy Krueger‚ Nor Michael Myers‚ Nor Jason Voorhees‚ Nor Jaws‚ Nor Norman Bates‚ Nor the Devil… No‚ none of these. Ladies and gentlemen‚ as I see it… one of the greatest horror villains is Leprechaun. Here are some quick facts to provide you with
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A Phantasmal Reality The creature of nightmare is an overpowering presence no matter how it is presented. The meaning behind this creature varies depending on the reader. Different perspectives can even illustrate the monster as a force within. However the protagonists execute their relentless tribulations‚ they will always be doomed to a confined existence. Ethan Frome‚ for example‚ recurrently found himself in a state of calamity due to the perpetual obstacles brought on by the menacing creatures
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Catalogue Films: Item 1: Black Christmas (1974) A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break. A great example for weaker roles for women as every member of the female cast is killed off. I intend to pick out key scenes to use as examples in discussion. Item 2: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) A group of friends passing through are stalked and hunted down by a deformed killer with a chainsaw in order
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¿que hace que esta pelicula sea la favorita de tantas personas? Se trata de un cuento que retoma lugar en la vida cotidiana parecido a mitos clásicos como Frankenstein o Pinocho (ser viviente creado por el hombre‚ que lucha por hacerse un espacio en la sociedad) o como la Bella y la Bestia y cierta influencia de la obra El Fantasma de la Ópera (un amor imposible entre un monstruo‚ marginado por la sociedad‚ y una bella joven). El entorno social es descrito de forma crítica y a veces ridiculizando
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Have you ever seen a monster? Often times‚ society tells us what a monster is supposed to look like. Our minds conjure images of Frankenstein‚ Dracula‚ Michael Myers‚ or Freddy Krueger. But what if the monster actually looks like the guy next door? History has taught us that‚ often times‚ the most threatening of monsters are the individuals who look like the average guy. In the novel‚ The Picture Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde‚ perception of an individual’s character can be misleading. Similarly
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FEMINITY IN CONTEMPORARY HORROR FILM One might say that horror film- genre has been invented by feminists. Horror films seem to be one of the only genres that have women as heroines instead of dominated side characters. In horror genre women are the ones fighting against evil and men are the ones dying trying to help these heroines. Or perhaps the horror genre uses heroines to differ it self from hero dominant action genre. Or maybe horror films were created to represent the ultimate horror of
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