John carpenter's 1978 Halloween is not only a horror movie classic but a personal favorite of my own. As a horror movie enthusiast myself, you can't go wrong with starting with the very first Halloween to kick off a good night of screams and sleeping with the lights on. Halloween starts off in 1963 Halloween night when a teenager Judith Myers is at home supposed to be watching her six-year-old brother Michael Myers but ignores him in favor for her boyfriend to spend a romantic night with him. After her boyfriend leaves Michael proceeds to walk into Judith's bedroom still in his clown Halloween costume and mask with a butcher knife from the kitchen and repeatedly stabs her. She falls to her bedroom floor where she dies. Michael moves on without …show more content…
She actually saw Halloween right when it was released and said “I saw original release it was one of the first of its time of an edge of your seat early days of slasher. That later became a slasher classic movie.” And I must agree. It is a classic horror movie that carries with a heavy fan base. The signature music when Michael is terrorizing people is not only haunting but unforgettable. His mask that kids wear every Halloween is terrifying by itself. But the history behind the aesthetics is truly scary and will keep you up at …show more content…
Even though the three girls in the movie are babysitters I think the title fits much more with the story. Either way Halloween being rated R is a perfect film for new or old horror movie enthusiast. As Rodger Ebert says who wrote a review in 1979 on the film “We see movies for a lot of reasons. Sometimes we want to be amused. Sometimes we want to escape. Sometimes we want to laugh, or cry, or see sunsets. And sometimes we want to be scared. I'd like to be clear about this. If you don't want to have a really terrifying experience, don't see “Halloween.” I honestly couldn’t put it better
Throughout Clover’s novel she never mentioned “A Nightmare on Elm Street” even though it is part of the same franchise as “Halloween”. However, I say the film followed Clover’s exact model. A link can be made from the film to Clover’s theory from a couple of standpoints. “A Nightmare on Elm Street” had a very Halloween like feel to it. Freddy Krueger acted as the male tormentor as he harmed Tina Gray and Nancy Thompson. The line here is that the base for the film “A Nightmare on Elm Street” is the same base that was used in “Halloween” as well as the base theory Carol Clover provides in her novel. In “A Nightmare on Elm Street” Tina and Nancy have a goal of becoming the “final girl(s)” because they have the same common goal of surviving Freddy Krueger’s attacks. Tina and Nancy’s stories sound exactly like Laurie’s in Halloween. The base is the same in that a male continued to attack female characters until the female(s) overcame the challenge to become the “final girl.” I really feel that most “slasher” films follow this
Halloween is rife with psychological scares that affect its audience greatly. “Symbolism, dreamlike imagery, emotional rather than rational logic” are present in Psychoanalytic criticism. Siskel and Ebert talked about how the movie makes you feel as if you are the protagonist, scared for your life and feeling every bit of suspense (Siskel and Ebert). The movie is purely fueled by emotional responses to what is happening to the characters and focuses itself purely on how the audience will respond. In the clip shown, the main protagonist talks about how she killed the killer but he is shown alive. The movie is not concerned with the logic; otherwise, the killer would have at least been slowed down by the injuries he sustained. Siskel and Ebert laud the movie on its set up of scenes, score, character development, and use of lighting to make the audience feel the terror the characters undergo.
...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.
Halloween is the time of year that most people loved the idea of being scared beyond belief. But nowadays it’s harder to be genuinely scared because it seems like some people have become accustomed to most horrifying things that relate to Halloween due to the fact that it is the same every year. Nonetheless every year amusement parks use Halloween as a marketing scheme to get people and their friends to come to their horror nights, and spend money on ridiculous overpriced items, which all present the same things; clowns, clowns, chainsaws, and more clowns. Yes we can all agree that clowns are scary, but there has to come a time where the ones coming up with these “horror nights” step back and realize that what they are doing is no longer working anymore. But alas there is someone out there who knows what they’re doing, and it quite possibly could have to do with the fact that they are connected to the movie studio that did invent the horror film genre. But what makes Universal Studios Halloween Horror night so sinister? Universal Studios has a way where they take you out of reality and place you in a horror movie where you encounter many horror mazes, and also by the way they attack your senses in unexpected ways.
I would have probably been on the opposing side of my current opinion.I see and understand why some people feel this. One good reason could be they feel there are a lot of Halloween characters and the fact that this movie came out in October.October is to Halloween like December is to Christmas.Although they are both very strong and valid reasons, I feel my evidence wins the debate.Yes, there is a lot of Halloween characters but there is also a lot of both Christmas characters and traditions.Yes, the movie came out in October but the movie has the word “Christmas” in it and people watch the movie in both seasons.I strongly feel that my evidence is stronger than the people’s who believe it is a Halloween
To begin with, some people would say they enjoy a horror movie that gets them scared out of their wits. They go see these movies once a month on average, for fun, each time choosing a newer sequel like “Final Destination” or “The evil Dead”. King says “When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie we are daring the nightmare” (405). As a writer of best-sel...
One of Stephen King’s short stories would be The Boogeyman which indeed falls into horror genre. It takes third person point of view with dialogue that is first person which informs the reader about everything that is going on. The story starts off with Lester Billings the main character saying he wants to tell a story to his therapist Dr.Harper. He proceeds by saying,”All I did was kill my kids. One at a time. Killed them all”(Page 1), which makes the story interesting right from the start by attracting the viewer with ideas of murder and introducing the horror aspect of the story. Billings goes on about how his three children Denny, Shirl and Andrew were killed by the Boogeyman. His first child was the first case of the Boogeyman when Denny
Suspense embodied this film and luckily during the late 1960's Hollywood was at a time where filmmakers were able to push the limits. Many religious groups were outraged with the movie but if it weren't for the work of Polanski in Rosemary's Baby, classic horror films, such as The Exorcist, and other suspense films would cease to exist.
How the Opening Sequence of Halloween Captures the Attention of the Audience ' 'Halloween' was made in 1978 and is a good example of the 'Slasher' movies from that time and this is an interesting piece of cinema as it can be related to the German expressionism of the late 1920's which used jerky camera shots and high contrast lighting to enthrall the viewer .In this essay I will discuss how the opening to Halloween captures the audiences attention and how codes and conventions create suspense and tension for the audience.
Movies of the past had a different approach to scaring the audience. In the 20th century, scary movies were more than entertainment. They were designed to lure the viewer into buying the action figures and tee shirts that the movie had spawned.
Ethical behavior is significant to the development of persuasion, and important to the behavior of humans. It also influences persuasion by developing the progression of persuasion, and increasing those who are accountable for it. A person’s ethical behavior originates with morals and changes in what way an individual is required to connect to encourage effectively and dependably and finishes with who obligation it is to take responsibility in a persuasive interchange. The significance of our ethical behavior is realized within all our origins as human beings and stands as the groundwork of our different societies. We are directed by our ethical customs in the cultures which we create and live. “The persuader’s determined actions mean more under deontological ethics than under teleological ethics” (Magee, 2014). According to David B. Resnik, J.D., (2011), ethics is defined as standards for behavior
People are addicted to the synthetic feeling of being terrified. Modern day horror films are very different from the first horror films which date back to the late nineteenth century, but the goal of shocking the audience is still the same. Over the course of its existence, the horror industry has had to innovate new ways to keep its viewers on the edge of their seats. Horror films are frightening films created solely to ignite anxiety and panic within the viewers. Dread and alarm summon deep fears by captivating the audience with a shocking, terrifying, and unpredictable finale that leaves the viewer stunned.
Would you rather be horrified beyond repair or thrilled to the point of no return? In horror, the main purpose is to invoke fear and dread into the audience in the most unrealistic way. Horror movies involve supernatural entities such as ghosts, vampires, teleportation, and being completely immortal. As thriller films are grounded in realism and involve more suspense, mystery, and a sense of panic. Though both genres will frighten the audience, it will happen in two different ways. Whether the horror thrills or the thriller horrifies, a scare is always incorporated.
I was profoundly shaken by this film. But when I tried to gather my thoughts, compose myself and determine what about this film is truly the most horrifying part, I drew a blank. What exactly is it that makes this film scary? The best I could do was mull over some of the contenders for the scariest scene. The scene where Jennifer was lusting after the Low Shoulder drummer in the bar was suspenseful, climactic, and kept me on the edge of my seat with cold dread and apprehension.
The fictional novel IT was written by award winning author Stephen King, who released the book on the date of September 15th 1986. IT follows the horror genre sufficiently and is, in my opinion, a very well done horror novel that contains very well done characters with excellent character development. The novel IT is an extremely adequate novel due to four reasons, the first of which is that the novel contains extremely well done character with sufficient character development, the second of the four is the main plot and storyline located in the novel, the third reason is the formation of rivalry and conflict between the antagonist and the protagonist, and the final reason which is the organization of chronological events, or lack thereof,