The Shinning And The Exorcist Analysis

In Gabor Maté’s book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, a passage from chapter 28 stood out for me. I was intrigued with this passage because harm reduction is a topic of interest for me. I will analyze this passage using reasoning and evidence.This passage explores the definition of harm reduction by using clinical tone, images, examples, and specific dictation. This passage presents the definition of harm reduction Maté‘s reader will use to draw upon the rest of the book.

In the Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, is both an allegory and tragedy where the Puritan society of Salem is attacked with the agitation of witchcraft. It all started with five young girls of the Salem society caught dancing naked around a bonfire. This practice is viewed upon by the Puritans as the task of the devil. In the beginning of the play, there was controversy about ownership of land between some of the villagers. Later in the story, people fear for their own safety and begin pointing fingers and accusing their neighbors of witchcraft in order to escape being hanged. This caused the society to get more and more separated as time went on. This emphasizes the idea of how fear and suspicion can destroy a society due to accusations, roundups, and forced confessions. Miller captures the evil of paranoia and fear in his play through emotions by letting them shine through his characters to make the audience feel the tension, the angst and the desperation throughout the play.

In its infant stages, Halloween was simply a concept - and that concept was about a babysitter who is stalked by the boogeyman. John Carpenter made the comment “We are all afraid of the same things… so that makes a movie that deals in our fears, universal.” Irwin Yablans (executive producer to Halloween) came up with the title for the film and set the stage for the babysitter, the boogeyman, and the darkest holiday of the year. John Carpenter (director / co-writer / music composer) and Debra Hill (script supervisor) went to Moustapha Akkad and requested the funds to create this film. Moustapha had not previously entered into the horror genre prior to this venture. When John pitched the idea to him, he was intrigued and pulled in with the mention of the “babysitter” so he agreed to finance

For this summer reading I decided to read the Scary Novels. Which included Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, and Stephen King’s The Shining. The Haunting of Hill House is about an 80 year old mansion built by a man named Huge Crain. Dr. Montague, a paranormal investigator, rents the house in hopes to experience the supernatural. He invites four people, Eleanor Vance, Theodora and Luke Sanderson, based on their pasts. From there they stay for the summer in hopes to explore the supernatural side. The Exorcist is about a young girl Regan MacNeil, a daughter of a famous actress, that gets possessed. After the actress, Chris, tries everything to help her daughter from the so called sickness, she calls in a priest.

The film is essentially a documented look at a group of friends as they travel from haunt to haunt, all the while trying to gain some insight into what makes some of the people who work at these things tick. For some, working at a haunted house is a fun

According to the text on page 230 of "The Shining Studies in the Horror Film," book, the conversation between Danny and Hallorann regarding Danny's taste for lamb is referenced. The text then details the lamb as being, "a young animal slaughtered before it reaches maturity, and it may be that Kubrick intends Danny's marked preference for non-carnivorous foods to foreshadow the boy's fate at the end of the film...." Although I find this analysis to be insightful, I have a differing take. Hallorann referenced the killing and subsequent consumption of lamb, and, in the movie that is, Danny was very certain that he does not like lamb. Lambs are regarded by some religious faiths to represent innocence, and were therefore the targets of religious

The Exorcist was the first horror classis movie to be nominated and win an award for being the best horror for its time. The movie starts off with a family moving in to a new house in Washington D.C. When they are starting to settle, the girls found a board game call Ouija board. They start to play with it by placing their hands on it and asking any spirit question. It started moving, and they thought it was a dumb trick that the little sister (Regan) was pulling. So, they ended the game and they went on with their business. Little did they know that something evil possessed Regan.

The Haunting is set in a dark, abandoned mansion, and has American gothic. The script has surprise and mystery. The mystery aspect is, “why are the walls following John and Sam.” The surprise is how the lights are flicking on and off. The Haunting also has the sublime, the idea of extreme. It also has terror because the walls are folding in behind them.

Exorcism, by definition, is ‘the expulsion or attempted expulsion of an evil spirit from a person or place’ (Dictionary.com). For this research paper, I have chosen to research exorcism and the beliefs, history and practices that go along with it. This is a topic that has always interested and been fascinating to me. There have been numerous movies, documentaries, and stories written and performed relating to exorcism- both claiming to be true and fictional- and it was a topic I was deeply curious to learn more about. This paper will explore the history and beliefs of exorcism and will also explore the role of the exorcist, which is the person who is intended to rid the affected of their

H.P. Lovecraft, in “The Call of Cthulhu,” and Stephen King, in “Gramma,” use psychological horror. In “The Call of Cthulhu,” the buildup of suspense is more prominent than the shock factor, and in “Gramma,” the shock factor is more

Even when you are physiologically convinced that it is a “true story” and ready to get scared, there are not enough scenes to make you cower in your seats. By the experience of watching horror movies over the years, audience will be able to predict the next move of the ghost to terrify the little girl and family well in advance. The movie moves at a snail's pace boring you with all the little tricks the old man's ghost pulls out from its hat.

To begin, the writer of The Conjuring implies that this film is based on a true story. It being based on something truth that actually happens in real life the audience will be more aware and will be terrified of watching the movie. As demonstrated on the movie poster under the title it says “Based on the true case files of the warrens” all in capital dark bold letters. That

An exorcist is a Christian authority figure, often times a Catholic priest. The Roman Catholic Church has established an ecclesiastical position for exorcists, yet there are Christian ministers, who are neither Catholic nor priests, who perform exorcisms as well. Christian ministers who perform exorcisms are given guidelines for deciding when an exorcism is the best course of action. Their assessment often involves an examination and interview of the allegedly afflicted person to see if an exorcism is necessary.

In all aspects of life, people come across things that simply cannot be explained. Whether people choose to believe something or not; it still is prevalent in life. Exorcism is the expulsion or attempted expulsion of an evil spirit from a person or a place (https://www.google.com). In horror films, the main focus during the exorcism is on the evil spirit. Films have negatively drawn our attention to evil spirit because it is more interesting to watch. But in reality, behind every exorcism there is an exorcist that risks his life to save another: “And the exorcist, who risks more than anyone else in an exorcism, flits across the screen as necessary but, in the end, not so interesting as the sound effects” (Martin 8). Exorcists are the

When the term exorcism is mentioned, many people think of the devil-possessed head spinning, lead character in the 1973 movie The Exorcist. What is the actual definition of exorcism that Hollywood does not share with us? Exorcism as defined by the Catholic Encyclopedia is (1) the act of driving out, or warding off, demons, or evil spirits, from persons, places, or things, which are believed to be possessed or infested by them, or are liable to become victims or instruments of their malice; (2) the means employed for this purpose, especially the solemn and authoritative adjuration of the demon, in the name of God, or any of the higher power in which he is subject (Toner). However, man people are far less versed in the Roman Catholic form