Barbra (Judith O’Dea) and her brother Johnny (Russell Streiner) travel by car from Pittsburgh to the countryside to visit the gravestone of their father in the cemetery. Out of the blue, they are attacked by a strange man and Johnny is murdered. Barbra runs and releases the brake of Johnny’s car since the keys are […]
Gratuitous Violence in Film
One of the questions about Cinema Therapy is whether there is any therapeutic value in violence. The Urban Dictionary defines gratuitous violence as violence for the sake of being violent, usually associated with low budget movies and cult videogames. It is also often without need, and often unrealistic. It seems that almost any genre of […]
American Horror Story: The Series
After it’s first season on televion, American Horror Story is already the highest-rated first season show in FX’s history. Horror fans cannot get enough of it. As far as 2011 went, FX’s supremely creepy horror/drama American Horror Story was hands down the best new show of the fall. This latest creation from “Glee” and “Nip/Tuck” […]
Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film
A Nightmare on Elm Street. Halloween. Night of the Living Dead. These films have been indelibly stamped on moviegoers’ psyches and are now considered seminal works of horror. Guiding readers along the twisted paths between audience, auteur, and cultural history, author Kendall R. Phillips reveals the macabre visions of these films’ directors in Dark Directions: […]
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