He drowned as a child, neglected by camp counselors. It was a terrible loss, and the start to a horrific series of killings. People have tried to escape. It was only a matter of time though, they were either curious and died early or hid and it was only a little longer before they were slain. I believe the main character in Friday the 13th, Jason Voorhees, is insane because for one, he was born mentally disabled, but also because of his mother’s actions. Also I believe this horror icon has endured as a popular Halloween outfit, and because the producers just won’t let the series go, finally they have improved the quality of the films over the years.
This movie, Friday the 13th, had me wondering and kept me guessing the whole time. It opened with Jason Voorhees drowning in Crystal Lake, while the camp counselors were paying no attention. Jason’s mother was devastated and furious at the leaders of the camp. She blamed them for murdering her son and killed them in vengeance. She also convinced Jason to seek vengeance on everyone who did drugs or had premarital sex; these were the types of activities that distracted the counselors. Years later, a group of teenagers sign up to help rebuild and work at the same camp. They needed a summer job, but this is not what they planned on. Jason’s mother finds out they are going to open the camp again, unexpectedly she strikes. She is under no circumstances going to let anyone reopen this camp. Mrs. Voorhees kills all of them except one girl, who managed to escape multiple situations. The girl had to result in beheading the psychopath with a machete.
My overall end thought after watching this movie was that movie production really has improved since 1980. Improvements other than ju...
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...ost slasher films, she is the sole survivor usually the one who resists peer pressure and it pays off. This type of film usually ends with the “final girl” killing the tormentor and ending his killing spree, unless it’s Jason who will continually come back from the grave. The violence in slasher movies is on a whole different level than thrillers, it is meant to be more gore and graphic. These are all significant characteristics of slasher films, of which Friday the 13th is categorized.
Friday the 13th has endured in our culture for decades. Jason is brought up each year at Halloween, movies are still being produced adding to the series, and it started a new era in the movie business. What we don’t speak about is him being brought up in that same small town of Crystal Lake. The people have not forgotten him. Will they ever do something about him is the question.
Too many horror films provide scares and screams throughout their respective cinemas. Not many viewers follow what kind of model the films follow to appease their viewers. However, after reading film theorist Carol Clover’s novel, watching one of the films she associates in the novel “Halloween”, and also watching the movie “Nightmare on Elm Street” I say almost every “slasher” or horror film follows a model similar to Clover’s. The model is a female is featured as a primary character and that females tend to always overcome a situation at some point throughout the film.
The film of Brilliant Lies has significant improvements; a scene is added, some are deleted and overall the setting are far more exotic.
Scream 4 utilizes today’s millennial culture of technology, Youtube, and blogs to once again reinvent the slasher genre. Scream 4 combines just the right amount of comedy within the story to still stay true to the genre and pokes fun at the previous three films and the genre as a whole. Although there is nothing significantly new with regards to the story of Scream 4, the mystery of who is under the mask was well done and keeps the viewer guessing. The identity of the masked killer is a surprising one and makes an interesting comment on fame in modern
I think the performance delivered the message and intent perfect. I was not once confused, but it is that which starts out some what at the end and uses flashbacks to tell the full story.
events that may be an influence on Jason’s behavior and adaptation to his home life, home life
However, I feel that the producer and director of this movie did a good job
Though the nickname remains, the camp is finally set to reopen in 1979. A deranged Pamela would not let it happen, as she kills all of the counselors except one girl who finally stops the vicious attack, murdering her. The deaths do not stop, however, as Jason vows revenge for his mother. Although no proof is ever found of Jason, the locals derive that he has been living in the woods for over twenty years. Many people try, but no one has been able to stop Jason for good.
Jason flourished for the next six years, even winning his fifth-grade citizenship award. In sixth grade, however, his medication stopped working, and he became aggressive again. But Jason's teachers did not believe he had a disability and refused to allow any special "accommodations," like extra time to take tests. At Christmas, Jason was so depressed that he threatened to kill himself. After three weeks' treatment at a psychiatric hospital, he was put on Adderall, another stimulant, which helped him recover. Now he is back at school, this time with a full time teacher's aide and other accommodations for his disability. "He just had a midterm evaluation," Cathy said, "and his teachers all said that he was a delight to have in class."
I personally believe the film ends on a negative note. The credits eerily force the viewer to relate the
Lorie Myers begins the film Halloween as a normal, happy teenager and everything in life is fine. Michael is the brother of Lorie and he is locked up in an insane asylum for murdering his older sister Edith. He eventually escapes and decides he wants to murder his sister Lorie. Lorie is unaware that she has an older brother because she is adopted by another family when she was an infant. On Halloween night, Lorie is babysitting and her friends are being murdered. Lorie losses everything and she had done nothing wrong. Michael blames Lorie for the situation because of her relationship to him. Lorie is traumatized from Michael terrorizing her, but she makes it out alive. As the Halloween series progressed, Lorie becomes successful, but the fear
Within the genre of horror films falls the sub-genre of teen slasher/stalker films. These teen slasher/stalker films take the horror genre film characteristics into account, however they add more to the formula. More violence, sadism, brutality, and graphic blood and gore are used to increase the terror factor. Sexuality and gratuitous nudity are also key characteristic of many of these films. Imitations and numerous sequels are also a common characteristic of teen slasher/stalker films as well.
Yet for all such positive reviews, the movie reeks. In an attempt to display the movie in a light-hearted way, the movie omits the things that really matter.
film was much too serious and I did not like the factor that most of the
A girl runs frantically through the woods trying to escape an axe-wielding villain. The defenseless victim suddenly trips and collapses to the ground. The villain laughs wickedly as he lifts the axe above his head. The girl releases a final scream as the weapon quickly ends her life, causing the audience to go silent as they watch the villain drag away the lifeless body. Death, blood, guts, suspense, screaming, and terror are just a few things to expect when watching a modern-day horror film.
Slasher films have attracted feminist academic attention in recent years, most notably from theorist Carol J. Clover. Clover's groundbreaking article, "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film," was first published in 1987 and continues to influence feminist film critics today. With some success, these critical inquiries have recuperated the genre as one that might actually indicate shifting ideas about gender roles and female agency. Whedon nods both to the "slasher" as a subgenre and to feminist film theory in the Season 3 episode, "Helpless." In "Helpless," Whedon grafts the slasher scenario onto the Buffyverse but makes significant changes, based, I think, both on feminist responses to the genre and also on his own understanding of the show's audience demographics. Though Whedon puts his title character on a continuum with the slasher's female but "boyish" victim-heroes, Buffy b...