Week 4: The New Weird

After seeing Cabin In The Woods, I do must say I was shocked by the direction the film took towards the end. My favorite scenes occurred were when they went underground and they showed all the other mystical horrors behind glass as well as attacking the creators of the horror scene.
 Cabin In The Woods is an incredible concept You have your typical college teenagers (the blonde, the jock, the stoner, the geek, and the simple girl), who didn't tell any of their relatives or friends where they were going, and who are in a cabin with no cell service. The only civilian close enough is also very far away and runs a gas station. The set up reminded me a lot of Evil Dead, I was expecting the movie to continue the trend of being a typical horror movie, but the ending made the movie far more interesting.

   After watching weird horror, we usually have our mind opened up to dangerous that are typically more frightening then what the movie maker could have ever created. It takes your normal fears and amplifies in onto a whole other level. this builds up and makes it scarier to the viewer.
    Personally, I like new weird because it is different from classic horror and its fun to watch something that is beyond the stereotypical genres.

Week 2: Vampires

I think one of the ideas the author has put in place is this idea morality. Often times in the book the vampire looks to what’s moral in making his decisions in his new or I guess old lifestyle. There doesn’t seem to be any evidence for why he’s choosing not to kill and for the majority of the time, to do the right thing.

The vampire represents the good side of morality.  Its as if sometimes he’s not even a vampire, he’s turned into one but his appreciation for human life has not diminished.  He is still very human in that way in in that way he makes moral decisions instead of instinctual decisions or decisions based on an illusion that to be a vampire is to be at a higher standing, to being a predator, which is often the side (master) represents.

I think yes this idea of being privileged i.e. being a vampire progresses through the book.  They have this idea that because there vampires they have this privilege to a ‘more important life’ that there needs are more important than others.  I mean this echo’s in so many ways in modern society.  You have the class system for one and then you just have ignorant people who are privileges and honestly sometime I feel like they don’t know better because that’s just how they were raised and no one ever told them anything different.

Week One: Frankenstein

While reading Frankenstein I continuously thought of how there were a lot  of modern day versions and spinoffs of the story, I was amazed how this story could continues to resonate with society for such a long time. Specifically I thought of Tim burtons movie, Frankinween, but I believe the Frankenstein story has stayed relevant be cause of its Gothic structure.

 I believe that in today's culture Gothic can be perceived as exaggerated. There are many different  mediums in witch the gothic appears, including illustrations , books, and even T.V.

It is extremely prevalent in todays society, spicily the gothic can be found in many different films, specifically  Tim Burtonesque. He’s films have become wildly popular, and in some form resemble the gothic style of literature

   

 Tim Burton films are especially interesting in that way. You can really see what inspires him in his films. Practically all of his films have a gothic framework laid in surrounded by 'his style' that anyone who knows his work could say "that’s a Tim burton film,” Its gothic in nature coated in a whimsical fashion that I think appeals to most people. That’s what makes his films appealing, what draws in the crowd. Tim Burton films are often dark with whimsy. the dark gothicness of his films brings out the mystery in his story. I believe in this way, the design, and dark over tones is what makes most of his work relatable to the term ‘gothic.’