Frankenstein, Psycho, and The Exorcist have three entirely different evil forces in them. The Frankenstein monster is a soulless creature made from science not nature. ... Frankenstein and The Exorcist have the peak and valley type of tension. Frankenstein's tension build but when the focus is away from the Frankenstein monster thing are at ease. ... Frankenstein at the time wasn't really a possibility of coming true. ...

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As a matter of fact the underlying theme of this movie is the mad scientist, but not the same mad scientist theme that was shown in Frankenstein. ... Cronenberg's movies are heirs or updates of Frankenstein. ...

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At the beginning of the 20th century in America pioneer film-makers --- looking for sunny lands --- left their studios and moved from the eastern maritime region to South-California, where 350 sunny days were guaranteed per year. The story of movies began in an other continent: It was in Eur...

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Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock was known to his audiences as the "Master of Suspense" and what Hitchcock mastered was not only the art of making films but also the task of taming his own raging imagination. Director of such works as Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds and Rear Window, Hitchcock told ...

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In a genre that is comprised of very different types of films, Horror seems to please the average movie-goer with its ability to both make you laugh and make you scream. Whether it's watching a good B-horror film like The Evil Dead, or watching a Hollywood bone-chiller like The Haunting, Hor...

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The classic horror films all involve the textbook monster; Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man, and of course The Mummy. Terence Fisher tackled the project of bringing the white wrapped monster to life in 1959, and then Stephen Sommers re-created the film in 1999. Both films obviously tell the cla...

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"Because the aftereffects of war, terrorism, and natural disasters so closely resemble the scenarios of Zombie Cinema [they have] all the more power to shock and terrify a population that has become otherwise jaded by more traditional horror films" (Platts 548). Those are the words of Kyle Bishop, a...

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Horror films; the last link between excitement and insanity. Our need for horror and the thrill of fear feeds our unconsciousness. Over the past century, the horror genre has evolved from the original Frankenstein in 1931, to Jaws in 1975. The horror style has changed, as well as the viewers appr...

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Both films can perhaps also be seen to refer back to some of the original concerns od Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein, first published in 1817, in the way in which they both question the role of man in a new scientific age and the dangers of man acting as god. ...

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The seventies established the slasher film within popular culture. Films such as "Black Christmas" (1974) and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974) were revolutionary for the horror genre however it was not until 1978 that the slasher film confirmed its popularity within horror. John Carpenter's "Hal...

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" Even if horror's entrance was ungainly, films such as Dracula and Frankenstein (1931) saw raging popularity as a new and exciting form of entertainment, facilitating the entrance of a cultural phenomenon. ...

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