White Zombie Film Analysis

Fifty years later, Sheridan Le Fanu gave the world its first favorite female vampire in Carmilla, which he published in 1872. In Carmilla, a young woman falls prey to a vampire in an isolated castle. Sound familiar? Scholars have noted many similarities between Carmilla and Bram Stoker 's vampire masterpiece, Dracula, which followed twenty-five years later. By the time Dracula was published, the reading public was steeped in vampire tales.

Nowadays, zombies films has become more popular and increasingly. Beside the history of zombies, it show that the zombies’ idea dates back to 8th century, the word ‘zombie’ come from nzambi, in Kongo means’ spirit of a dead person’, or Zanbi. In zombie-related book, magazine, articles, movie films, even video games has based on zombies, this have to follow back to 1932, the year which the first full-length zombie films (White Zombie) came out. The White Zombie is directed by Victor Halperin, the film is telling that the revolves around a young couple Neil and Madeleine who have travelled to Haiti and Madeleine is turned into zombie by a Voodo master, she forced to a wealthy plantation owner. At the end of the film, evil Voodoo master and her husband knock each off a cliff, the white zombie bride awakens from her zombiness and returns her true love.

He chooses words that convey how well-informed and interested he is on the topic, making him seem to be an authority to the reader. Scott establishes his authority and credibility by showing how much research and thought he has put into his review. For example, Scott mentions several leading actors in the film, as well as their previous roles. He also mentions information about the animation studio that created Inside Out, “Pixar animators conquered water and

Tim Burton contributes to the world of animation in the film industry and redefined stop motion . Lighting is an important cinematic technique directors can use to set the mood for a particular scene. For instance, high-key lighting is used to flood a scene with light, often making the set and characters appear happy and safe. In contrast, low-key lighting casts deep shadows across the set and characters creating a sense of danger. Burton makes good use of lighting techniques in many of his films.

As a result, gothic horror is important to a reader because of how it can connect to their lives in a certain way. In the novel Dracula, author Bram Stoker focuses on multiple elements of gothic horror which apply to several of the characters in the novel and can compare to contemporary works that have gothic elements, as well. In any novel, mystery and suspense is a popular characteristic, but contributes very well to what secures a gothic theme to a novel. Here, mystery and suspense are built throughout the novel based on the predicament of the characters. Initially, mystery is built very early on in the story, where the reader is interested to know who the

Why we crave horror movies This article name is “Why you crave horror movies” and it’s by “Stephen king”. Other people say king is one of the most successful writer of modern horror fiction. When he first starting writing a book he wasn 't good but after few books he is the best in horror movie fiction it give many people think about movies or things. His thesis is “why people watching horror movie if it’s not good for them?” I read article about horror movie, when summer coming people are bored about everything and they want something special. In the book author use word “simple and obvious” for horror movie.Horror movie will not give you instant scream or shock as roller coaster but it makes you scared mood in few hours or few days.

Jonathan Harker is an important lawyer who goes to Count Dracula’s castle to business which consists in purchasing a beautiful house in London. Then, Dracula tries to make a deal with the lawyer letting him to stay for a few days in the castle but later he noticed that Jonathan Harker has a beautiful wife with a huge similarity as Dracula had once. Therefore, Count Dracula’s objective is to have Jonathan Harker’s fiancée. Hence he has to look for her until to find her and make her wife. During this story, many events happen for example Dracula goes after Mina Murray to Bistritz to make her immortal as he is.

The element of lighting is a sophisticated element to a movie. It has the power to control what you see and also overwhelm you when it needs to. During my discovery of this movie, I found that colors told the story just as much as the dialogue. It just goes to show that the most significant films cover all the ends of telling a story through the medium of film. Now the fun part, the analyst of The Shawshank Redemption’s use of light and color in painting the picture of its theme of hope.

When the reader can imagine and picture the scene while reading the story because of the vivid detail and suspense, you know that the what you are reading is a work of art. These wonderful qualities are present in every line Edgar Allen Poe 's horror story, "The Tell-Tale Heart". Imagine you 're watching a horror movie in 3D, Stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart" by authors like Edgar Allan Poe have the same effect, by making it so easy to visualize the scene, he makes us feel like we are in the story waiting for the suspense to finally break. By explaining just how slowly he was going made the reader start to worry what would happen when he was finished, "It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed." lines 29-31 of "The Tell-Tale Heart".

James Whaley is an English born director whom participated in several films for Universal studios where he eventually took up the task of directing Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein novel following the popular release of Dracula that same year. The success of Frankenstein was rooted in it’s genre being a horror film and the immediate success it brought to movie producers. The interpretation by Whaley is highlighted by several plot transitions which are not shown in the movie as well as certain alterations like Henry Frankenstein (Victor in the book) using a criminal brain rather than any other brain collected as implied by Shelley. Other major differences in the plot of the movie compared to the novel involves the monster Frankenstein himself and everything about the character. In the movie Frankenstein is portrayed as an impulsive monster only capable of fulfilling his most physical and animal like actions.

The scenic designer, Terry Martin, truly captured the elements of this production. The way E. Turner Stump Theatre was set up made you feel like you were in the side show yourself. There were lights hanging from the ceiling, and cages set up for the “freaks” on the stage. It was creepy, uncomfortable, and mesmerizing. Examples where the set design was most adequate was during the love tunnel scene, during the beginning of the production, and at the ending of the production.

I was impressed of how you observed the different shadings on the house and I have to check it out myself, too and I have to agree with you. On the other hand, I believe this horror film takes advantage more on its certain elements of cinematic language . For example, the lighting strategy and dark shadows inside the Bates Motel created an eerie character which resulted this film to be linked into horror