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Monster Threat in the 1987 Horror Movie Near Dark

This report analyzed the Near Dark horror movie within the context of critic Robin Wood's observation that 'normality is threatene...

Horror Films and Gender

Film criticism and gender are discussed in relation to the horror genre. A look at sexual mores is included. This five page paper...

Horror Film Evolution

mindless conformists, and sought to sound a warning through the medium of film (Caligari, in the figure of the mad doctor compelli...

Positive and Negative Aspects of TV Violence

In six pages this paper discusses how violence in television is represented in reality, horror, and children's program genres. Fi...

Horror Cinematic Genre

horror film, according to director Elias Merhige, "The horror film transforms itself, adapting to our fears, to the things that we...

Moral Dilemmas in Menken's Musical, The Little Shop of Horrors

Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...

Moody's Portrait of Racism

by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...

Film Scream and Editing

other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...

Element of Horror in Fiction Stories 'The Monk' by Matthew Lewis and 'The Castle of Otranto' by Horace Walpole

style presented in this story, a style that clearly speaks of a dark and foreboding reality, we present some of the opening paragr...

Reviews of Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors Compared

Zaks experience that the challenge of using outdated and outmoded expressions in a musical were too much for Zaks. He says, "The s...

Child Labor and William Blake's Poetry

As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...

Spectator in Alfred Hitchcock's Film Rear Window

action shot at a car race. To rely on an old clich?, he is "bored to tears." He spends most of his convalescent time sitting at th...

Setting in 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Raven' and 'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

Suspense in The Shining by Stephen King

demented that he becomes a vessel for their agenda. Beginning with the setting, King has executed a masterful scene of susp...

An Analysis of Giovanni's A Memoir Of War

of violence and vengeance. The author explains that it was when she was in Maglaj that she came to a full understanding of war; t...

Nationalism and War's Horrors in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

survival were still slim. Background information on Baumer and his comrades is filled in through flashbacks. In this fashion, th...

Inferior Film Sequel Scream 2

In five pages this paper examines the reviews of critics regarding this inferior first sequel to the blockbuster and acclaimed hor...

Analysis of Scream and Psycho Horror Movies

In eight pages the changes that occurred in the horror cinematic genre between 1960 and 1996 are examined in a contrast and compar...

Scream Film Genre and Criticism

In nine pages this paper discusses media criticism and its types with a focus upon scholarly, journalist, and auteurist and then e...

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature for Children

In nine pages this research essay discusses the importance of horror, fable, and myth genres in terms of intellectual development ...

Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock

In this paper consisting of six pages the impacts of a changing movie industry in the early 1970s and the way in affected Hitchcoc...

Analysis of the Film Fatal Attraction

In five pages this analysis considers how director Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction represents a changing suspense and horror film g...

Horror Story 'Carmilla' by Sheridan LeFanu

In three pages this paper discusses the horror and vampire influence of this tale and Bram Stoker's Dracula. There are 2 sources ...

Overview of Carrie by Stephen King

In three pages this paper examines Stephen King's horror novel with an analysis of how the supernatural is presented along with at...

Overview of a Family's Holocaust Horrors in Tale I of Art Spiegelman's Maus

In ten pages this paper examines Art Spiegelman's cartoon book in a consideration of how one family managed to survive the Holocau...

Relationship Between Adolescence and Horror Films

In five pages this paper considers Aristotle's genre definition and the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud in this examinatio...

Horror Films and How They Have Evolved

Project" serves as an excellent example of a film-maker taking full advantage of the inherent fear of all modern humans regarding ...

Horror Film Industry Impact of Alfred Hitchcock

In six pages the horror film industry contributions of the cinematic 'Master of Suspense' and their impact are examined. Seven so...

New Direction of the Horror Film Genre and the 1999 Movie The Sixth Sense

Hoping to succeed this time, the good doctor gives his complete attention to Cole, even if it means neglecting his wife, Anna (Oli...

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Horror Genre

In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...