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    Horror Movie Experiment

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    Methods Supplies We used the horror movie “Devil” as the fear stimulus in our experiment. The movie was played on a 13.3 inch laptop. Oxygen saturation and pulse were measured using a Walgreens Pharmacy brand pulse oximeter. The experiment was completed in a closed door prayer room in the Student Center. The lights were shut off and a phone flashlight was the only light source in the room‚ used to record information. Subjects For this experiment we chose two female college students. Female subjects

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    The genre of horror was created in 1896 and set out to frighten the audience with induced feelings of terror and horror. The sub-genre of Vampires does this‚ but the way it induces these feelings has changed over time‚ with the two features of Male Vampires and Female Victims representing this change. Three movies that exemplify the aspect of change within the two features are‚ Dracula (1931) directed by Tod Browning‚ Fright Night (1985) directed Tom Holland and Twilight (2008) directed by Katherine

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    How does Hitchcock exceed audience expectations in Psycho? The director of the 1960 film Psycho was directed by Alfred Hitchcock‚ born 13th August 1899‚ in London. He died 29th April 1980 aged 80. He was a British filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in the United Kingdom in both silent films and early sound films‚ Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. In 1956 he became an American citizen while retaining his

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    Introduction In recent years‚ movie class plays a more and more important role in English teaching in China. Most teachers require students to write movie reviews after watching the movie. However‚ how to write movie review is still remain unclear to students. Some student download a review from the internet‚ and some write a summary of the movie instead. Genre analysis is a system of analysis by which observations are made on the repeated communicative functions found in genres and on the linguistic features

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    dolls have the ability to go through the process of thinking their actions through so‚ are fully aware of what they are about to do next. In most of these horror films these dolls openly said what they are about to do and even gave evil looks to the person. Also‚ “I also think the animate doll taps into childhood fears.” (Keetley) This explains how children actually believe that these dolls come alive at night or when they are not around and this comes to reality. These dolls in the films can be compared

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    Media Trailer Anaylsis

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    presentation I will be researching and analysing two horror movie trailers which will help me understand the codes and conventions that should be included when producing my own project. These two trailers will be of the recent films ‘The Possession’ (show film poster) and ‘House at the End of The Street’ (show film poster). I will also be analysing the trailer for ‘What to Expect When You’re Expecting’ (show film poster) showing the contrasting genre‚ comedy. The 6.4 star rated film ‘The Possession’

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    McKercher Writing 1 10 March 1998 Scream: Not Your Typical Horror Movie Dracula. Frankenstein. Godzilla. These monsters no longer strike fear into the hearts of viewers as they once did. Formerly the villains of the classic "monster movie‚" these relics‚ who now represent all that is archaic in horror film history‚ move aside to make room for the newcomers. The monster movie of the past makes way for the thriller or slasher movie of the present‚ while the monster villain gives its role to the

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    1. Glory the movie has many different types of genres which includes: drama‚ epic film‚ action film‚ costume drama‚ war film‚ period piece‚ and political drama. 2. The main characters is Glory are Matthew Broderick as Col. Robert Gould Shaw‚ Denzel Washington as Trip‚ and Morgan Freeman as John Rawlins.. these three chracters changed the movie dramatically making it easy for the viewers to feel the passion and pain going on throughout this movie. 3. The genre throughout the film flips back and

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    “Compare how the women in black and the awakening use conventions of the gothic horror” This essay will entail a comparison of the conventions of gothic horror apparent in the films Women in Black and The Awakening‚ both films have created a gothic horror by using the conventions in similar and different ways. Firstly the characters have been portrayed in a certain way in both films to fit gothic horror‚ the characters are extremely vulnerable which is often present in gothic horrors‚ this is so

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    My First Horror Movie

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    I have always been very intrigued by horror films. I can remember being as young as six or seven‚ watching The Exorcist‚ Texas Chainsaw Massacre‚ Jaws‚ The Omen‚ Carrie‚ and Halloween. These movies never really scared me‚ I was taught at a really young age that they were not real; they were just tricks of the movie world. My mom always told me they were real people dressed up‚ just like we did for Halloween. We would talk about how they created the special effects. Scary as it was‚ there was

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