Horror+Films

= = =Horror on the Silver Screen =  Origins - the first horror movies How they started Special effects used to make horror movies scarier Legends converted to horror movies ATTACK OF LES ESPIONS FRACAIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK U PPLZ 4 DOIN RESEARCH 4 ME!! U PPLZ R AMAZING --SARA THANK U! WE KNOW WE ARE!!!!- TESS http://www.mediaknowall.com/camangles.html for camera shots and angles and all that great stuff

=Camera Shots =

Extreme Long Shot

 * set setting

Long Shot

 * show life size (entire body)

Medium Shot

 *  dialogue scenes
 * show detail
 * two shot
 * three shot
 * over-the-shoulder shot

Close Up Shot

 * shows detail from something on the scene
 * face

Extreme Close Up
=Camera Angles =
 * build tension
 * show eyes
 * show nose
 * show mouth

Bird's Eye Veiw

 * directly overhead
 * puts audience in godlike position
 * make people look insignificant
 * make people part of a bigger thing

High Angle

 * general overview
 * less significant
 * scary
 * part of a larger picture

Eye Level

 * human height
 * neutral
 * 5-6ft

Low Angle

 * make people look taller
 * faster motion
 * powerlessness
 * lack of detail
 * inspire fear

Oblique/Canted Angle

 * instability
 * point of view shots
 * transition
 * often use hand held camera


 * __Effects Music Has On Horror Movies__**
 * builds tension
 * sets mood (I mean, seriously, try watching the shining with the volume down, subtitles on, and listening to VeggieTales)
 * disturbing sounds (blood flowing gushing, screams, highpitched screatches ect.)


 * __Effects Horror Movies have on Children__**
 * more likely to have
 * sleep disorders
 * anxiety
 * aggressive and self-endangering behaviors
 * mothers with violence related PTSD, who wish to shield themselves and their children from violence, inadvertently expose themselves and their children to violence through movies, television and video games perhaps as a way of feeling a sense of control in the present over very frightening memories of out-of-control experiences (taken right form article reword)
 * Children shouldn't watch them (duh!) because it can cause some mental disorders (oh no!!!!!!)
 * even if they do not understand what is going on the violent action and gory scenes affect them, even if they think they are unaffected, just watch and see if they grow up to be serial killers before you jump to conclusions


 * Effects Horror Movies Have on General Health and Well Being**
 * can cause anxiety in children and adults
 * sleeplessness
 * fear (hangover)
 * develop phobia towards animals such as mammals, insects, reptiles, fire, flood, water, blood/injection/injury or height and enclosed spaces


 * __Common Themes__**
 * Monsters
 * unexplained noices
 * Blood
 * supernatural (powers, creatures ect.)
 * undead
 * murders
 * insane (mostly men)
 * transformations
 * devil (evil)
 * knifes (dangrous weapons)
 * closed places
 * children
 * rape


 * __Horror TV Shows__**


 * Most Haunted - a group of ghost hunters go into haunted house (generlly in England) and spend a night going though the house finding (and sometimes ridding the house) of ghosts (travel channel)
 * Ghost Hunters- Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson go into haunted houses (generlly in America) and spend a night going though the house finding ghosts. (SciFi channel)
 * Goosebumps (Childrens)- An old Childrens TV show whitch that have recently been showing on Nick. They are based off the well known children's horror books
 * Treehouse of Horror (The Simpsons)- Every Halloween the longest running animated TV show puts out a speical where they poke fun at all of the horror movies.
 * Ghost Whisperer- Melinda Gordon is a newly wed that can communicate with ghosts and helps many of them 'passover' to the other side.
 * Scooby Doo (Childrens)- a group of teenagers goes around to 'haunted places' with a dog named Scooby Doo. (Shaggy, Velma, Fred, Dafney, Scooby Doo.) They solve the mysterys of the 'haunted' places.
 * Buffy The Vampire Slayer- Buffy Summers is chosen to fight vampires with Willow Rosenberg and Alexander "Xander" Harris, and Giles. Buffy ends up saving the world countless times.
 * The X-Files- Four FBI Agents Mulder, Scully, Doggett and Reyes uncover forces in the USA government that could violate people rights. Alien creatures and mosters attacks and other mysteries,
 * The Twilight Zone- A series in whitch ordinary people find themslefs in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. It normally ends up with an ironic twist.


 * __Real Live Horror Stories__**
 * John Wayne Gacy- The Killer Clown- Dressed as Pogo the Clown. IN May 1968 he was charged with an act of sodomy with a teenage boy named Mark Miller. Miller said Gacy had tricked him into being tied up while vistiting at Gacy's home and Gacy had raped him. He said that Miller willing had sexual interactions with him in order to earn extra money. Pleaded guilty to the charge if sodomy and recived 10 years in the Iowa State Prison at the age of 26. He was divorced shortly after. Was relised from prison early for good behavoir. He moved back to Chicago, worked in a restaurant and got remarried in June 1972. When the next door neighboors came over, they complained of a horrible stench. IN1974, He started his own contracting bussiness and hired young men so he could keep the pay roll low. Or so he told. He soon confessed to his wife he was mroe attracted to young men that women for whitch, she divorced him. Tried politics but his career was ruined by rumors of his interest in young men. Robert Piest, 15, vanished just ouside the pharmacy he worked at. His mother began to worry so she called the police. It turned out the contractor who had offered him a job was John Gacy. Gacy said he knew nothing of the dissapperence. Police man who was leading the investigation did a background check on Gacy and he was surprised to find he had done time for sodomy with a teenage boy. Got a serch warrent, when Gacy was not home, he went though his house. They found a box containing marijuana, pills, a stained peice of rug, a number of books with homosexual and child pornography themes, a pair of hand cuffs, police badges, sexual devises, hyprodermic needle, a small brown bottle, clothing that was too small for Gacy, nylon rope, and a box containing two drivers licenses and several rings. One of the ring was engraved with Main West High School Class of 1975 and the inicals JS. The police entered the crawl space and found that the soil had been sprinkled with lime. Gacy contacted his atterny and was told not to sign anything. Police had nothing to charge Gacy with so they relised him but he was put under 24-hour servalliance. Then they decided to charge him with posession of marijuana. While he was being charged with possesion, police and ivestigators came up with cridical evidence against him from the idems they took from his home. One of the rings found in Gacy house belonged to a teenager that disappered about a year before. His name was John Szyc. Also, a receipt for a roll of film had belonged to one of Robert Piest's co-workers. This receipt had been given to Piest on the day he dissappered. Detectives returned to Gacy's home. Gacy finally confessed to police that he had killed someone 'in self defence'. Gacy told police the body was buired under his garage. Before digging under the garage, investigators searched the crawlspace and found the first corpse. For thenest several days, the sight was serched under the Cook County's medical examiner's watch. On December 22, 1978, detectives told Gacy they had dug under his house and he confessed that he had killed at least 30 people and most of them were buried under his house. He explained how he had tricked his victumes into being handcuffed then sexually assult them. He would then stuff a sock or their underwear in their mouths (EWWWW!) and kill them with a rope or board against their throats. Gacy also admitted to having kept the corpses under his bed or in his attic for hours or even days before he buried them. The police found 27 under his house, and a total of four were found in the Des Plains River, in the concrete of Gacy's patio, and under Gacy's receration room. After all the bodies were taken out the house was distroyed. Robet Piest's body was found in the Illinois River. The total dead was 33. All but nine of the dead young men were identified. He was put to death on May 9, 1994.

In the 1890’s, a man named for his profession, Butcher, owned a deli in Palos Park. When a major depression hit America livestock was in short supply, which caused many other butchers to go out of business. Even thought Butcher had to raise his prices as meat became more and more scarce he still retained most of his customers. Butcher and his apprentice began unloading a large shipment of beef when his apprentice, who usually carried the meat down to the basement meat locker due to Butchers bad back, slipped when walking down the stairs carrying a load that was too heavy for him and broke his neck on the bottom step and instantly died. Butcher knew that he should call the authorities but thought the scene looked as if the boy had been pushed. Before he could tell anyone he dragged the boy’s body into the freezer and hit it behind several crates and packages. Days after some began looking for the young man and Butcher told the apprentice’s family he had no idea what had become of the young man. The father remained suspicious and went to the police. When two detectives came by to question the butcher, although they went away, made the butcher become even more nervous. Late one night Butcher butchered part of the body and packaged it to sell as beef. He waited someone to complain as customers snatched up the meat but to his surprise, they loved the meat. Fearful that they would ask what kind of meat it was, he butchered the rest of the body and began to think of a way to find more meat. Soon, the man began searching the streets during dark for hobos and bums that would not be missed, lured them off the streets with promises of free food, slaughtered them and sold their flesh as beef. People were excited that there was more meat but soon the hobos and bums were gone and again he was faced with a shortage dilemma. Butcher made his fatal mistake when the first of the local children vanished. After more children disappeared, townspeople began to wonder, what really did happen to the butcher’s apprentice? A mob of local men stormed down to Butcher’s shop and began searching the place. They soon ended up in the meat locker where they found packaged body parts thrown about and the remains of a child hanging from a hook. The mob became outraged, stormed over to Butcher’s house, and pulled him into the yard. Axes, hammers, and knifes rose in the air and fell, decapitating Butcher while spraying blood across the wall. The head was eventually buried under the fire pit on Indian Hill, which is now on present day property of Children’s Farm. As for the rest of his body, it was buried in cemetery across the street with a gravestone that marked his last name. Nothing else was engraved into the stone as it serves only as a reminder of the awful events that had taken place.
 * In a small cemetery alongside the railroad tracks across from the Southwest Highway in Palos Park, one stone is engraved with the name Butcher and holds a story of greed, murder, and cannibalism.

__**Movies Watched**__ Eve has watched... Tess has watched... Sara has watched...
 * The Shining
 * Carrie
 * Poltergeist
 * Psycho
 * Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
 * The Orphanage
 * Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1957 original)
 * Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 remake)
 * Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932 original)
 * Halloween
 * Rosemary's Baby
 * Shaun of the Dead
 * The Shining - movie based on Steven King's The Shinning where the main charecters come to live in a suculed hotel. Jack goes crazy while the boy sees things like the two girls and an ocean of blood. Jack chases the boy into the maze with an ax and gets lost. Jack freezes and the boy and mom get out alive.
 * Carrie-
 * Poltergeist- A family starts building a pool when strange things begin to happen. The young girl is sucked into her closet and is pulled out by her mother at the end when the roll out covered in strawberry jelly.
 * Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?-
 * Psycho
 * Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1957 original)
 * Shaun of the Dead
 * Scooby Doo (The Movie)
 * Psycho
 * Scooby Doo (The Movie)

Rear Window Dial M for Murder Corpse Bride (Childrens Horror Movie) Nightmare Before Chirstmas (Childrens Horror Movie)