Here we have a recent horror movie poster for the terrifying movie, Chernobyl Diaries.  The first thing that caught my attention with this poster was the title.  It is such a unique title that I was instantly curious to find out what it was about.  The cloudy environment and radioactive sign portrayed in this photo emits a dark emotion maybe about mutant horror.  This mutant horror plot is very rare so people are instantly attracted to the movie.  The city depicted in the photo is based on a real city that pretty much exploded after a radioactive meltdown killing alot of residents.  This is intriguing because the poster is based off real events, they just choose to expand on these events to make a good quality horror film.  This darkly shaded poster also lets the viewer know it will be a dark creepy film.  After looking at some poster and pics of this film I instantly rented this movie and was not let down.  It doesnt fail to deliver what it portrays and thats the best part about this photo.  A good photograph leading to a great fun horror film is a prime example of yet another successful production in the horror industry.

My own comment,
This comment I choose to reply to James post about freddy vs jason.

http://cs-2-rd.blogspot.com/2012/09/analyzing-freddy-vs-jason.html?showComment=1352484232971#c7361451181125637923

Non related comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVTrJ_v1Qfw

For this I decided to comment on a youtube video about one of my favorite cartoons, South Park.  This show is amazing and accurately depicts America with its degrading self loving people.  This video in particular shows how obese people take advantage of their situations to get themselves scooters to get around.  It shows how peoples dumbness is very contagious and how people will conform to other peoples stupidness.

 

                                      For this activity i chose to poke fun at the classical horror plot of ZOMBIES.  Yes they are scary and gross, but zombies never seemed to be the smartest horror creatures, in fact alot of zombie movies show that zombies do have alot of weaknesses.  For example in the movie I am Legend, the zombies do not like light and will sleep during the day.  In other movies the zombies walk extremely slow but somehow the victim always gets caught and eaten alive.  In this photo I have recreated, my main motive was to show how silly the zombies look walking after a guy who is just standing there scared about to let them eat him.  As this photo is a parody on zombie classics, it doesn't fail to accurately portray the sometimes cheesy death scenes of stubborn victims.  For me personally being in a zombie apocalypse world I would just run away as fast as possible and find a deserted area.  It just seems the typical surviving gang surrounded by zombies doesn't scare the audience as much today.

The Grudge emotion

ok guys! first off... This picture creeps me out and makes me remember the whole scary movie. in this you can see and feel the fear that the girl is expressing. she is filled with sheer terror and when i saw this when it came out in 2004, this is what made me fear the dark. The story of the movie is that in Japan, the husband of his family who was having an affair goes crazy and murders his family and commits suicide leaving behind a dark evil spirit that kills anyone who enters the house.the girl on the left had entered the house and brought the wrath of the dark spirit to her and now she is being taken. This scene brings about a strong emotion of fear that will pierce even the strongest of people. some aspects of this terror and fear are the way the grudge's hands are wrapped around her victim's face and the grudge is in the middle of her shriek. the pale almost grey skin, the black hair streaked across her face and only showing one eye are a few extra examples of the qualities that amplify the fear that the grudge possesses.

This photo I decided to examine emotionally is from the terrifying movie, Halloween.  In this photo, Michael Myers(guy standing on the right) is a deranged kid who grew up to become a serial killer.  Looking at this photo really gives me goose bumps.  I get a real creeped out emotion noticing that Michaels figure is covered in the shadow and the kid is more in the light really displaying the difference in personalities.  Another aspect of this photo that is scary is the size difference, because Myers looks like a 10 foot freak compared to the poor innocent boy.  I remember in the movie the boy stated, "hey mister are you a giant?".  Michael is also wearing very dark clothing and has a hoodie on to hide his face of evil.  One last aspect of this photo that involves the whole movie is that its Halloween night and that just adds that much more terror.

Researching Horror

Blogger Sites

http://thehorrormoviesblog.com

-This site pertains to more short film horror movies and trailers.  I was able to watch a 20 minute movie about alien visitors and it had pretty good gore.  The Horror Movies Blog provides sneak peak trailers of grade B horror movies and gives a good description on the production details of the movie.  It also provides information on contest you can enter to win prizes.


http://bloody-disgusting.com/film/114272/collection-3d-2/

-This site called bloody-disgusting and it provides great intel on the most gory movies of all time.  Its main focus are films such as "Cold Fish" and "Inside" that are so violent they cant be in theaters so they just went straight to DVD.  But man those are some gnarly trailers.  It also provides comic book strips and music from horror movies.  You can get a glimpse at different music throughout the years and see old time horror clips and present day trailers.

http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/

- Horrors not dead really has a broad range of all different types of horror movies.  It gives you a category option of choosing horror movies to read about from the 60s all the way to present day 2012 so you can really get a glimpse on how movies have changed in production and plot throughout the years.  It also gives information about horror fest and activities.  It offers DVD guides and latest reviews.

Academic Sources

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-horror-films

-This academic source is something very important I would like to eventually discuss in this blog.  This site provides a timeline from 1900 to present day with major horror classics and thrillers.  This is interesting because I want to explore how horror movies have changed from the early 1900s to 2012.

http://web.li.gatech.edu/~rdrury/600/write/sp2_03/horror/element.html

-This is a very intriguing site about horror elements and what  you can find in films.  It explores the typical element of horror you find in movies such as a fierce creature, supernatural, or murderers.  By reading this site I have found that murderers are people favorite type of movie because it keeps them on the edge of there seat the whole time.  I found this site very helpful in breaking down the main ideas of Horror films.

http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk

-British horror films is something that interested me as soon as I read the title.  I never thought to explore foreign horror films.  This site shows clips and films from Britain showing their type of scary movies.  I like this website because it gives you a alphabetical order of scary movie genres that you can explore.  I would like to see if anybody has seen any foreign horror films and how they compare to US films, although I am more than certain US films kick butt and no other nation can compare.

Analyzing Freddy vs Jason

Hey guys Slasher here again!!! im here to review one of my absolutely most favorite movies of all time. FREDDy VS JASON!! BUM BUM BUM!!! my buddy Gore is in favor of Freddy but we all know that in the end Jason is the victor.
Getting to the point, I chose to review this movie simply because it combines two of the most infamous horror psycho killers in history. In this thrilling horror flick, Freddy Krueger the infamous villain from Nightmare on Elm Street, uses fears to kill people in their dreams in the small town of Springwood, Ohio. Freddy however has started to become weak since the people of Springwood have been starting to suppress their fears of him. To solve this problem and regain his reign of terror and fear, he travels to the depths of hell disguised as the mother of Jason Voorhees, the unstoppable killing machine of camp crystal lake, and tells Jason that he must raise from hell to slaughter the teens of Springwood. Jason starts stealing away Freddy's kills and it leads to a face off between the two in an epic showdown both in reality and in Freddy's twisted dream world.

I love how this movie depicts two almost Immortal beings battling against each other and it shows how in a battle between two matched opponents, both will fall only for the one who gave that last push to rise again in victory. symbolism plays a big role in this movie being that Freddy was portrayed as the leader resurrecting Jason as his pawn yet he had no idea how much power Jason possessed and in the end lost control and ultimately fell. This movie also shows a battle between mind and matter. Freddy battling through mind while Jason fights through a physical mean. Yet in this case mind could not overcome matter when out of its element.