Psycho
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Release: 1960
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Sub-genre: Slasher Facts: -There is a famous/ iconic shower scene whereby a female victim get stabbed. - Split personality. -Originally had bad reactions due to it being different at the time it was released. - People ran out of the cinema. - Rare to see half naked women. |
Night of the living dead
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Release: 1968
Director: George A. Romero Sub-genre: Zombie Facts: Director is known as the " God-father of Zombie films". - Iconic representation of children at the time. - Has good subtexts. |
The Exorcist
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Release: 1973
Director: William Friedkin Sub-genre: Supernatural Facts: - Religious theme in a dark way. - It was banned for many years in a lot of countries( until 1999, 25 years later). - innocent child made to look demonic. |
The Texas chainsaw massacre
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Release: 1974
Director: Tobe Hooper Sub-genre: Slasher Facts: - It was banned at the time. - Based on a true story. Iconic weapon used (chainsaw). Rich in subtext (Vietnam war). People had to fight without a choice. |
Carrie
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Release: 1976
Director: Brian De Palmer Sub-genre: Supernatural Facts: - Stems from Stephen King. - Typical story of a girl who was bullied outot get revenge. -Iconic prom scene. - Pig blood was used in real life. |
The Omen
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Release: 1976
Director: Richard Donner Sub-genre: Supernatural Facts: - Successful British film. - Good and pure made evil. -Damien = Antagonist. - Religious film. - Child is the son of the devil. |
Friday 13th
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Release: 1980
Director: Sean Cunningham. Sub-genre: Slasher. Facts: Jason = Antagonist. - Iconic mask (hockey mask). - Revenge them due to past neglect and treatment due to disability. - It is a franchise. |
The Shining
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Release: 1980
Director: Stanley Kubrick Sub-genre: Supernatural Facts: - Stems from a Stephen king. - The antagonist is Jack Torrance who turns into a homicidal maniac who wants to terrorise his family. |
The evil dead
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Release: 1981
Director: Sam Raimi Sub-genre: Zombie Facts: - About a group of teens who go into the woods and find an old book which awakens the dead. |
Poltergeist
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Release: 1982
Director: Tobe Hooper Sub-genre: Supernatural Facts: - There was a conspiracy about the film due to the fact that there was some staff and actors who died during and after the making of the film. |
A Nightmare On Elm Street
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Release: 1984
Director: Wes Craven Sub-genre: Slasher Facts: - The antagonist the Freddy. - He kills people in their dreams. |
Child's Play
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Release: 1988
Director: Tom Holland Sub-genre: Slasher Facts: - The antagonist is Chucky, who is a doll that comes alive after a ritual. - The protagonist is a heroine named Karen Barclay |
Scream
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Release: 1996
Director: Wes Craven Sub-genre: Slasher Facts: - The antagonist is Ghostface - The films plays on "the enigma code" of 'Who is Ghostface?' |
The Blair Witch Project
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Release: 1998
Director: Daniel Myrick/ Eduardo Sanchez Sub-genre: Supernatural Facts: - This is a student film, which took 8 days to shoot. - It had a budget of $60,000, but ended up making $248.6 million. |
Jeepers Creepers
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Release: 2001
Director: Victor Salava Sub-genre: Monster Facts: - It is about a monster who comes around every 23 years to terrorise society and kills them to collect their body part to rejuvenate himself. - He only targets those who are scared. |
28 Days Later
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Release: 2002
Director: Danny Boyle Sub-genre: Zombie Facts: - It has the iconic red eyes of the zombies. - The zombies are a result of an infection/ disease, rather than rising from the dead. |
Saw
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Release: 2004
Director: James Wan Sub-genre: Splatter Facts: - The antagonist is Jigsaw. - It is a contemporary type of film where the victims are killed based on their sins. |
Hostel
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Release: 2005
Director: Eli Roth Sub-genre: Splatter Facts: - Wealthy deviants from around the world group up in Rome, where they pay a lot of money to torture people |
Paranormal Activity
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Release: 2009
Director: Oren Peli Sub-genre: Supernatural Facts: - The most successful film of all time ! - It is a student film. -With a budget of $10,000, it grossed approx $120 million. |
The Human Centipede
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Release: 2010
Director: Tom Six Sub-genre: Splatter Facts: - This film was banned due to its torture scenes. - It currently has 3 films. |
PRISONERS
Antagonist: Alex Jones, Holly Jones. Theme: The fact that mass media today often portrays those who are openly religious and patriotic are deemed suspicious or shown in a negative light. Stock Characters: Franklin Birch, Grace Dover, Nancy Birch. Stock Situations: Police chase, Trapped, Children talking to strangers, Murder Icons: Guns. Background and Decor: Run down house, Dim lighting.
Disequilibrium: The daughters of the couples are kidnapped and it is detective Loki and Keller (one of the dads) job to figure out where they are. Resolution: The children are found and the kidnapper is dead.
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TRAIN TO BUSAN
Antagonist: Zombies. Theme: To sacrifice things for those you love. Stock Characters: Sang-Hwa, Sung-Gyeong, Soo-An Stock Situations: Trapped within carriages, Child needs saving, Train crash, People turning on each other. Icons: Bats Background and Decor: Busan train station, Train, Train garage, Toilet.
Disequilibrium: There is an epidemic where people turn into rabid zombies which reaches the inside of the train. Resolution: In order for the dad to save his daughter he must sacrifice himself so she can make it to a refuge.
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JEEPERS CREEPERS 2
Antagonist: Jeepers Creepers. Theme: Revenge. Stock Characters: Mixie Hayes, Danny Jenner, Scott Braddock, Deandre Davis. Stock Situations: Bus crash, Car crash, Monster chase, Friends being selfish. Icons: Tooth weapon, Jeepers them song, Creepers' wings, and made weapons. Background and Decor: Farm, Bus.
Disequilibrium: Their bus crashes and creepers is trying to kill the teenagers who are afraid. Resolution: The remaining teens survive. The father continues to wait for Jeepers Creepers to appear to kill it.
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THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
Antagonist: Leather face. Theme: Revenge. Stock Characters: Kirr, Pam, Franklin. Stock Situations: Lured to an unknown house Icons: Mask, Machete. Background and Decor: Abandoned house location, human remains.
Disequilibrium:Picking up hitchhikers on journey who are crazy and dangerous, attacking stock characters. Resolution: Pick up truck passes by and sally jumps in and escapes to safety.
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CARRIE
Antagonist: Chris. Theme: Revenge. Stock Characters: Sue, Billy, Miss Collins, Tommy. Stock Situations: Help protagonist five support. Icons: Background and Decor: Focused around high school.
Disequilibrium: Sue offers support, setting her boyfriend up with Carrie for prom. Resolution: Carrie's house burns down from her uncontrollable power and kills her mother by accident.
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THE PURGE
Antagonist: The purgers Theme: Rich vs Poor Stock Characters: Zoey, Charlie, Henry. Stock Situations: Home invasion. Icons: Masks Background and Decor: Modern day home, High security.
Disequilibrium: Protagonists home is invaded by strangers begging for help. The purgers shoots James. Resolution: Man captured saves the family, Mary spares the purgers and the annual purge ends.
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THE CONJURING 2
Antagonist: Valak, the spirit. Theme: Family situations. Stock Characters: Janet's mother, Peggy. Stock Situations: Family members hear noises and go towards the noises. Icons: Spirits speaking through people. Background and Decor: London town.
Disequilibrium: Janet plays with an Ouija board and experiences supernatural events. Resolution: Family gets referred to Christian warriors, Lorraine and Ed kill the spirits.
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JU-ON
Antagonist: Kayako (mum) and Toshio (son). Theme: Revenge. Stock Characters: Peter, Jennifer. Stock Situations: Going towards things when noises appear. Icons: Yuri ghost, black hair and white gown. Background and Decor: Japanese home.
Disequilibrium: Karen is introduced to her house. Resolution:
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THE VISIT
BURTON THEORY Protagonist: Children (Becca and Tyler). Antagonist: Grandparents. Theme: Family situations. Stock Characters: Mum. Stock Situations: Being chased, Going into shed. Icons: Grandma, Grisly bear. Background and Decor: Rural area, Old house, Middle of nowhere. TODOROV THEORY Equilibrium: The children get to their grandparents' house. Disequilibrium: The children face-time their mother and show her the grandmother, also the grandparents begin to act weird after 9pm. Resolution: The children kill the grandparents. FILM REVIEW The visit is an okay film horror film, I feel like in the beginning it was quite slow and not very engaging. However, it got more interesting towards the end, but I didn't like the way it ended. I feel like M. Night Shyamalah could of done more with the ending. So I would give it an overall 2 out of 5. |
THE CONJURING
Antagonist: Carolyn (possessed). Theme: Religion. Stock Characters: Royer, Christina, Butsheba. Stock Situations: Move into possessed house and start experiencing weird events. Icons: Crucifix Background and Decor: Shady 1980s house.
Disequilibrium: Find out the house is possessed and the demon starts corrupting family members. Resolution: Ed cleanses her.
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28 DAYS LATER
BURTON THEORY Protagonist: Jim. Antagonist: Zombies & UK army troops. Theme: Survival,Revenge. Stock Characters: Selena , Frank , Hanna. Stock Situations: Trapped with no where to go so seek a new place as last result. Icons: Radio active symbol , military ranks. Background and Decor: Early 2000 apocalyptic UK. TODOROV THEORY Equilibrium: Normal city life in london. Disequilibrium: Science experiment leads to monkeys turning humans into infected. Resolution: Frank escapes Jim who wanted to rape the women he was with and the army falls however the infection still exists FILM REVIEW The film was very cliche, however i liked the fact that the zombies were faster and they were created from an infection, rather than rising from the dead. |
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I See You
This poster was done by Grace, where she was inspired to do a J-horror poster. This is evident through the grey-scale colour scheme which is popular with J=horror films. This poster could have been improved by changing the font of the poster as it does not really fit with the poster.
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Inside Outside
This poster was done by Nadia, where she was inspired to do a Supernatural/slasher poster, due to the fact that the tagline gives the sense that it is about a protagonist is home alone with an intruder - either human or not. This could be improved by adding film credits at the bottom.
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Drag
This poster was done by Abdul, where he was inspired to do a Monster poster. This could be improved by making the font of the title a little bigger, due to the fact that there is quite a lot of space empty.
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No Flesh
This poster was done by Claudia, where she was inspired to do a Zombie poster. This could be improved by changing the font of the title due to the fact that it makes the poster look like obvious student work.
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