Paperhouse: A Captivating Horror/Fantasy Film

In “The Haunting of Hill House”, Jackson uses a third person point of view in order to create an ambiguous feeling during the supernatural experiences which leads to confusion of whether the novel falls under the sub-genre female gothic, or not. Jackson starts the novel with a very powerful quote: “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.” (1). That famously known quote is very ambiguous and evokes suspense. The sub-genre female gothic conventions consist of an old haunted house, mystery and suspense, supernatural experiences, women distress during a transition to adulthood or motherhood, repressed emotions, an aspect of feminism, heroic male figure, dark, and horror. The Haunting of Hill House consists of some of the female gothic conventions but lacks others. Viewing the supernatural experiences from a third person point of view allows the reader to have an insight of the situations.

At first she’s just a high school kid, she’s young and amateur. She has a relationship with her gym teacher and she thinks its love, but as the movie goes she became more and more mature. Even though she falls for the wrong guy again, but still after a while she realized that she made a mistake and he was using her and her brother. Also at first when she got rejected from the university, she just dropped the subject and just stayed with her job, but as she grows. , she realized that she can’t be a waitress forever and so she went to the university to talk to them and convince them to let her in.

The house's name and location are more clues that it is a symbol for Narrator's mind. Per Wikipedia, "a paper street is a road or street that appears on maps but does not exist in reality." By using appellation (I think I get it now!), the film reinforces the notion that the Paper Street house doesn't actually exist; it is merely a physical representation of the mind of the narrator.

John Carpenter’s Halloween was released in the fall of 1978; little did he know, his independent film would change the face of slasher films as we know it. This film was responsible for ushering in what we recognize today as modern horror. With a budget of just over $300,000, Halloween was shot in 20 days. It went on to become the highest grossing independent film of all time bringing in over $60 million until 1990; however, this film was not an instant success (Halloween UnMasked, 1999). Halloween also brandished a newer type of hero - a heroine. Jamie Lee Curtis has become known as the Scream Queen as a result of this film where she paved the way for other heroines in the slasher genre.

I choose to interpret the representation of cars in The Haunting of Hill House. In this novel, a car is first represented as a means of control over Eleanor by her sister (Jackson 7). However, Eleanor’s stealing of the car transforms the car into a representation of freedom from her present life (Jackson 10). The car allows Eleanor to be free of her controlled life and to begin her own journey (Jackson 10). We observe the same car at the conclusion of the novel as a device used to free herself from her forced departure of Hill House (Jackson 178). She uses the car to commit suicide, allowing her to stay at Hill House indefinitely (Jackson 182). I argue that in the novel the car is utilized for control

Near the beginning of the movie her brother dies from falling out of a third story window and she is forced to buy a coffin for him because her parents are unable to communicate this is

The first nine minutes of this film develops the tone of the rest of the film and how these two very opposite characters meet. Ellie escapes her father by jumping off the boat and swimming to shore. She is followed by body

In “The Haunting of Hill House”, Jackson uses a third person point of view in order to create an ambiguous feeling during the supernatural experiences which leads to confusion of weather the novel falls under the sub-genre female gothic, or not. Jackson starts the novel with a very powerful quote: “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.” (1). That famously known quote is indeed very ambiguous, that evokes suspense. The sub-genre female gothic conventions consist of an old haunted house, mystery and suspense, supernatural experiences, women distress during a transition to adulthood or motherhood, repressed emotions, an aspect of feminism, heroic male figure, dark, and horror. The Haunting of Hill House consists of some of the female gothic conventions but lacks some too.

In the opening scene, there is a young man frantically running around the city. It then cuts back to two days prior, where the young adult, Kevin, is talking to his best friend, Brian, about his new job offer in Italy. The started chatting about the positive opportunities his new job creates; until he realizes, he has to leave his co-worker, Audrey, that he is secretly in love with.

I wonder where parts of this movie will be taking place! So, the movie starts out as Emma is taking a bath, and she starts hearing noises that someone is in the house, so she freaks out and gets out the bath, shuts as many doors as possible, while calling someone. I dont know if this is one of her friends or parents, but it definitely follows the cultured myth I mentioned before. She then looks up the attic ans sees, someone that looks a lot like her, and that figure attacks her, signifying that the attic is housing something, most likely one of her repressions, and that it has been under lock and key for sometime. A little later in the film, her brother comes home, and the family has a nice reunion. Later that night however, Emma can't sleep, and she hears noises up in the attic, so she goes and grabs some food, looks on the porch and sees a figure, shaking violently, only to realize it was a nightmare. But the next morning, she finds the cereal she left on a coffee table before going out onto the pouch, and the front door open. LAter that night she then goes into the attic because she heard strange noises, so she goes to investigate. When she is there, she find a white gown she likes, and looks at herself in the mirror, only to find a character that looks oddly similar to her, like, almost identical. After she falls from the attic, she looks up into it to find this, almost supernatural being looking down on her from the attic, as

The horror movie that stands out to me was not the first that I have seen. Ever since I was roughly four had been watching real life crime shows with my father and murder mysteries, so my taste in movies and shows started from there. I had watched horror movies before, but the series that I distinctly remember is Chucky. When I was in the third grade my father said that I could watch the Chucky movies with him, to this day it is my favorite movie series and to this day if you bring it up my mother gets angry. The plot line in Chucky is that a serial strangler by the name of Charles Lee Ray is caught and right before he dies passes his soul into the body of a doll. Then the doll is given to a little boy and if you haven’t seen the movie you can assume what happens.

They only hang out in Darling basement because both Aunt Fee and Kojo are always working in the afternoon. They mostly just watch pornography in the basement. They have been watching them in alphabetical order. Darling is interrupted by a call from Africa, it’s her Mother. Mother lectures Darling for not calling her. Darling talks to her friends from Africa. They end up bombarding her with questions about America. She gets startled when they ask her when she is going to visit them. She gets saved from the call when a package gets there. She says she’ll call back but never does. When it gets back to the basement they had gone and watched without her. Marina ends up bringing up a link of a cool video. They press play and it shows the warning of this film contains some disturbing images. The video starts off with a girl forced down by other women while one is a knife wielder. The video continues with the girl screaming, crying, and begging them to stop. Marina is unable to bear watching it and runs out. They skip near the end where the girl is quietly in a corner and bloody. They're never going to speak of this again.

Film Review: Pan’s Labyrinth For this extra credit assignment, I decided to write a film review on the movie Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro, the movie was produced in 2006. Guillermo del Toro has also worked on many movies with unique characters such as Hellboy and Pacific Rim. Although, Pan’s Labyrinth has a main character that is a normal human, you will see many unique characters in this film.

The film centers on a sexual relationship between Hanna Schimitz, a woman in her mid-30s, and Michael, a boy of 15 years old. The film begins in 1995 Berlin, then flashes back to another tram in 1958 on a day when young Michael is found sick and feverish in the street and taken back to Hanna 's apartment to be cared for. After he recovers, he returns to the apartment building to deliver a bouquet of flowers to Hanna at her apartment and thanks her. She is matter of fact with him but asks him to escort her to work on the tram line. However, when she catches him spying on her as she dresses, he runs away in shame. When he returns to apologize a few days later, Hanna quickly seduces Michael, and the two characters begin a relationship that last only for a summer. Michael begins regularly to visit Hanna at her apartment where they have sex. Hanna mentally dominates Michael and controls the relationship. Michael falls in love with Hanna, but the emotional attachment is not reciprocated. Upon Hanna’s request Michael begins to read aloud to her on each of his visits with the rewards of sex. He returns to her every day after school, rejecting the clear interest of girls his own age. In fact, all their days together are obsessed with sex. Hanna makes little pretense of genuinely loving Michael, who she calls "kid," and although Michael has a helpless crush on Hanna, it should not be confused with love. He is swept away by the discovery of his own sexuality. Then one day

The movie takes placed in 1969, but starts in a 1970 with Ed and Lorraine Warren interviewing two young college nursing students over the experience 's they had with the doll named Annabelle. They begin to describe the real life events that took place in their apartments caused by Annabelle. The movie then return to 1969, where Mia (Annabelle Wallis) and her husband john (Ward Horton) are expecting a baby in the near future and are excited as it will be their first child. After a small argument John decides to give a porcelain doll to his wife, which she has been trying to find for a long time, as an early present. That same night a tragic event occurred in the next door neighbor’s house as well as theirs caused by satanic cult. Due to the tragic event that happened in the young married couple’s house