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The slasher film made its debut in 1974, with Tobe Hooper's “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in which a cannibalistic family preys upon a group of teenagers until one, Sally, ingeniously evading their efforts to dismember her, escapes. The genre found its footing with the 1978 release of Halloween, the story of another heroic teenage girl, Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis), eluding the homicidal Michael, who has escaped from his mental institution. These formula-setters were followed by a string of Friday the 13th films (1980,1981,1982, and so on), Nightmare on Elm Streets (1984,1985,1987), Slumber Party Massacres (1982, 1987, and 1990), and other variations, and elaborated again by Wes Craven's Scream offerings (1996, 1997, and 2000). These low-budget teen horror films feature villains with names such as Freddy and Jason who kill over and over again but cannot themselves be killed; Amazonian heroines who survive through a combination of wit and self-discipline; settings that isolate their teenager protagonists in dangerous situations; and plots that on the one hand punish sexually active teens with death and on the other reward the virginal Final Girl with victory.
On the surface, slashers resemble serial killer and other crime movies: they have villains who kill repeatedly (here, mainly with knives) and almost-victims who scramble up from the depths of disaster to vanquish the villain and save the day (although that day may pass rapidly before the villain returns for the sequel). It is further tempting to 'include slashers in the crime films category because not only do they have roots in the horror tradition (The Omen [1976]; Carrie [1976]) but also in crime film history, especially Psycho (1960), in which Norman Bates, the weird repeat killer, is tracked down in a hideous isolated place (the root cellar of the decaying mansion) by a heroic victim-surrogate (Marion Crane's sister, Lila)--tracked down but, like Michael, Jason, and Freddy, not conclusively immobilized. Slashers are in fact close enough to crime films to have influenced subsequent movies in the latter category, such as The Accused (1988), in which a rape victim gets her revenge, and Silence of the Lambs (1991), in which an FBI agent overcomes the serial killer who has trapped her in yet another cellar.
THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED
IN CRIME AND JUSTICE
BUT CHILLS AND THRILLS, THE INEFFABLE PLEASURES OF THREAT AND REVENGE. Their action consists primarily of ambushes and mutilations, and their formulaic characters are interchangeable. Moreover, while these characters may look like ordinary teenagers, they are modeled after figures of folklore and myth: vampires, werewolves, creatures who dwell at the bottoms of lakes, maidens in distress, and pure knights with magic swords who invariably win their struggles. Like folktales, slashers revel in repetition and other narrative rituals; if they tell the same story over and over, they do so because individually they are no more than variants on a fundamental tale of threat and salvation, of meeting the monster and overcoming it. Moreover, unlike most crime films, slashers leaven their plots with elements of camp. Scary but ludicrous, satirical and sometimes wry, they ask to be taken seriously and lightly at the same time. Although they punish teenagers for violating the parental No Sex rule, slashers do so gleefully, inducing their own type of orgiastic excitement.
Slashers showed hollywood how to adopt victims' points of view and freshen up its depictions of slaughter. Not withstanding these parallels and overlaps, however, slashers are not true crime films.
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THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF MOVIE ACTORS WHO DIED DURING AND AFTER PRODUCTION OF THE TERROR FILMS IN WHICH THEY WERE WORKING.
POLTERGEIST
THE TWILIGHT ZONE
Dominique Dunne (1982) She was strangled by her ex-boyfriend in the driveway of her West Hollywood home and went into a coma. She never regained consciousness and died five days later at the age of 22. She was buried in Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery. Her co-star Heather O'Rourke was later buried there.
Vic Morrow, My-ca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen. (1982) During a scene in which Morrow was being attacked by American soldiers in Vietnam, some unknown error caused a helicopter to crash. The helicopter's main rotor decapitated Morrow, along with the child actors.
Julian Beck (1985) He was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1983, and died two years later at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, aged 60. He was survived by his wife, their two children, Garrick and Isha, and a brother. He was interred at Cedar Park Cemetery, in Emerson, New Jersey. Will Sampson (1987) He suffered from scleroderma, a chronic degenerative condition that affected his heart, lungs and skin. After a heart and lung transplant at Houston Hospital, Texas, he died on June 3, 1987, of post-operative kidney failure. He was interred at Graves Cemetery in Oklahoma. - page 30.
Lou Perryman (1988) He was killed in his home in Austin, Texas on April 1, 2009 by a 26-year-old man named Seth Christopher Tatum. Tatum, confessed that he had killed Perryman with an axe. He pled guilty to murder and was convicted on February 1, 2011, sentenced to life in prison. Heather Orourke (2009) She suffered a cardiac arrest en route to the hospital, and after resuscitation she was airlifted by helicopter to a Children's Hospital in San Diego, where she died later that day. She was interred at Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery.
THE EXORCIST
ROSEMARY’S BABY
THE OMEN
Jack MacGowran (1973) He died of complications resulting from the recent London flu epidemic. MacGowran was 54 years old.
Sharon Tate and her baby (1969) Polanki’s wife and child were murdered by members of Charles Manson's "family" and their bodies were discovered by Tate's housekeeper, W. Chapman.
Jonathan Peck (1975) Gregory Peck’s son was suffering from a broken relationship and arteriosclerosis, and severe fatigue. Died on June 26, 1975 from a self inflicted gunshot.
Valsiliki Maliaros (1973) She died at the age of 89 of natural causes. Some other deaths during the movie : Linda Blair’s grandfather. Max Von Sydow’s brother. A night watchman. A special effects expert. Cameraman’s newborn baby.
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Is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to some other entity—one or more persons, a place, or an object. In particular, "curse" may refer to a wish that harm or hurt will be inflicted by any supernatural powers, such as a spell, a prayer, an imprecation, an execration, magic, witchcraft, God, a natural force, or a spirit. In many belief systems, the curse itself (or accompanying ritual) is considered to have some causative force in the result. To reverse or eliminate a curse is called removal or breaking, and is often believed to require equally elaborate rituals or prayers. GORE gohr] The study-of[gawr, the forms of curses comprise a significant proportion of the study of both folk religion and folklore. The deliberate attempt to levy curses is often part of the practice of magic. In 1. blood that the is shed, when clotted. Hindu culture Sage especially or Rishi is believed to have the power to bless and curse. Examples include the curse placed by Rishi Bhrigu on king Nahusha.violence, and the one 2. murder, bloodshed, etc.placed by Rishi Devala. Special names for specific types of curses can be found in various cultures:
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4- MURDERS AND EXTINTIONS SLASHER - [slash-er] 1. aa person who criminally attacks others with a knife, razor, or the like. a horror film depicting such a criminal and featuring gory
3 KIND OF CURSES special effects.
African American -hoodoo presents us-kohr] with the jinx and crossed HARDCORE [hahrd-kawr, GLEEFULLY - [glee-fuh l] 1. conditions, as well as a form of foot track magic which was used by Biblical Ramandeep, whereby cursed objects are laid in From the paths BibleFilms imposes people accidents, sin. theofofmyths of oldThe Terror to curses recentwhen on-screen the motion picture industry has 1. those condition seems over. to be without hope remedy 1.adjective. victims andwhose activated when walked A lot of curses in the Bible are unto death.
long been associated with violent and untimely death. It has always been a magnet for suicides, full 28–it of exultant joy; fact merry; delighted. Take a lookand at Deuteronomy has simple mysterious accidents brutal mayhem; the is that, in the age of motion Middle Eastern and Mediterranea culture is the murders, source of the belief many curses. These curses are there for pictures, human death ahs become an inescapable part of show business. in the evil eye, which may be the result of envy but, more rarely, is who not obey Curses Hexes is athose study ofdo films that God’s have, commandin one way or another, resulted in death and destrucsaid to be the result of a deliberate curse. In order to beand protected ments. tion. from the evil eye, a protection item is made from dark blue circular glass, with a circle of white around the Some black dot the areindirectly responsible for the accidental deaths of those involved in their creation; others have - [jak-uh l, -awl]copycat crimes, psychotic middle, which is -reminiscent of a human eye. The size oftragedy the WORSHIP [wur-ship] caused indirectly movements, serial killers, 2. by inspiring occultJACKAL protective eye item may vary. Witchcraft behaviour in audiences, or bizarre and freakish coincidences. Curses placed on us by witches, any kind These "cursed" films include The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, - The Movie The as the 1. a person who Twilight performsZone dishonest or baseand deeds 1. reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred German people including the Pennsylvania Dutch speak in terms of witchcraft. A lot of people are involved Crow; films that have become notorious andfollower compelling in their new role as inadvertent epitaphs, as or accomplice of another. personage, or to any object regarded as sacred. of hexing (from the German word for witchcraft), and a common in witchcraft. on the subject of human mortality. hex in days past was that laid by a stable-witch documents who caused milk A lot of people go to witches for the Subjects covered range from the earliest suicides and jinxed movies, to links with Charles Manson, cows to go dry and horses toreverence go lame. or regard. 2. the object of adoring solutions to their problems, and if you are Satanic churches, snuff culture and mass murders, plus the mysterious death of some actors and the the problem, you will be receiving a equally strange demise of somecurse. others. witchcraft This book discloses and examines the dark, enigmatic connections between cinematic narratives and Curses often only spoken but there are also written ones. It CHILL - [chil] GRIMare- [grim] 3. a psychogeographic human catastrophe, forming study of the Terror Factory which will fascinate the has been practiced since the early days, and even today many People who are not witches reader with its far-reaching implications. people still practice it. Even the Catholic Church uses it to People can place curses just what they 1. abyfeeling of sudden fear, anxiety, or alarm. 1. fierce,members savage, of orthe cruel: denounce church who are being excommunicated. or change.
The word “curse” came from the Old English noun “curs” (a prayer that harm befalls one) and verb “cursian” (to swear profanely). The words may have come from the Old French word “curuz” (anger) or the Latin word “cursus” (course).
say or express about other people. When a Christian prays a selfish prayer about another person, The devil hear that prayer, and it gives the devil a legal right to send a demon to that person.
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. curse [kurs]
/ noun 1. the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc. 2. a formula or charm intended to cause such misfortune to another.
4. a profane oath; curse word.
/ verb 7. to wish or invoke evil, calamity, injury, or destruction upon.
5. an evil that has been invoked upon one.
8. to swear at.
6. the cause of evil or trouble.
10. to afflict with great evil.
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