It was a normal friday, my brother and I were dropped of at the mosque by my mother. We were supposed to meet the other YM members. YM is a muslim youth group from ages 13-25. We were supposed to meet up at the mosque at about seven thirty and pray. After prayer we would talk about a religious topic and then go to Bilal’s house to watch a movie. My brother and I were bored so we played basketball on the hoop that the mosque has. Then two more children came a boy my age and then a boy that is about sixteen. We just shot some hoops until someone would come. The about half an hour later a car rolled in and there was Ahmed and Meon. My brother and I hopped in the car with the other to boy that were with us and were drove to Bilal’s house. We …show more content…
He is in a slump, he has not had a best selling book in more than ten years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. When he finds out there is a home for rent were a family was murdered, he moves there and plans on writing about what happened there. Then he discovers the existence of a film showing the deaths of a family. The first family was hung on a tree, the second family were burned alive, the third family was drowned. The fourth family was ran over by a lawn mower. The fifth family had their throat slit and the Oswald family was murdered by an axe. He vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victim's house and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal. When ever he tries to get rid of the films they keep coming back. He tries to find connections to the murders and when he pauses he finds weird symbols in all the videos. He also notices a mysterious figure. He asks a professional for help the professional tells him that it’s an ancient demon that possesses children usually the youngest child. Then he tells the policeman which is a fan of his to look into all the cases. As the policeman looks into it he realizes that when one family died in a house, and then another would move in and weird and strange things would happen to them. Then they would leave and they will get killed in the house they move to and the cycle repeats. Ellison and his family would experience weird things and then they moved. As Ellison was told this information he was in his new house and then his youngest child murdered the family at night with an
On October 14th, 2016 in class we watched “Two Spirits” by Lydia Nibley. Basically the film explored the cultural context behind a tragic and senseless murder of the main character. Fred was part of an honored “Navajo” youth who was killed at the age of sixteen by a man who bragged to his friends that he was nothing but a “fag”. While walking home from a carnival he was chased by one of his friends. Once his friend caught up to Fred, he pulled him down from a mountain and smashed his head with a heavy rock. Fred laid there for five days straight where two young boys found his body lying there. He was labeled as a “two-spirit” who was possessed of balancing masculine and feminine traits. In the film, there are two parts that are put together effortlessly like the people it discusses. Most of the documentary focuses on Fred’s murder, but the real issues in the film were those of the lesbian, gay, and transgender community and how its members were viewed in a
Eleanor Vance has always been a loner shy, defenseless, and angrily resentful of the 11 years she lost while nursing her dying mother. She had spent so long alone, with no one to love, never had a real home and without any happiness in her life. Eleanor has always sensed that one day something big would happen, and one day it does. She receives an unusual invitation from Dr. John Montague, a man fascinated by "supernatural manifestations." He had been looking for a haunted house all his life. Then He heard about Hill House and he knows that he couldn’t let it go. His intentions with Hill House, was to go there, live there for a while and take notes of everything that occurs within the house, kind of like ghost hunting. So he rents Hill House for three months, organizes a ghost watch, inviting three people who have been touched by unearthly events. A psychic event from Eleanor's childhood makes her qualify to be a part of Montague's unusual study, along with stubborn Theodora who was the not thing like Eleanor, and Luke who is the nephew of the owner of Hill House. The reason for him being there is because the family lawyer told Dr. Montague that he couldn’t rent the house without the confining presence of a member of the family during his stay. They all meet at Hill House an estate in New England. This is where i...
The story begins in a small town in America. The Fowler family is faced with the burden, frustration and pain of having to bury their twenty-one year old son, Frank. The inward struggle faced by Matt Fowler, his wife, and family drives him to murder Richard Strout, Frank's killer, in order to avenge his son's murder and bring peace to himself and his family. Matt faced a life-time struggle to be a good father and protect his children from danger throughout their childhood. Dubus describes Matt's inner ...
The black experience is one that always needs to be told. There is always a new story because much of Black history has been omitted from American History. More recently, Singer/Producer John Legend inked a deal with WGN to develop a dramatic series on this very story. Underground, a black slavery experience, became WGN’s highest rated series in the station’s history, outpacing WGN America’s 2015-2016 primetime average by 508 percent in total viewers and 1,005 percent among adults 18-49 in live-plus-seven viewing (DVR). Netflix’s 13TH, a documentary which tackles race and mass incarceration, was the first non-fiction film to open the prestigious NY Film Festival in its 54-year history. There is already talk about it being an Oscar nominee. Currently, the American public is about 40 percent minority and that’s increasing by about half a percent every year. The viewing audience
"Fed Up (Soechtig, 2014)." narrated by Katie Couric, focuses on the growing link between sugar consumption and the obesity epidemic. The film aggressively attacks the food industry, advertising, and the government who, it claims, all contribute to the U.S. sugar-dependent, obesity problem. The film sets out to prove the government, and food industry is knowingly causing an increase in the amount of obese children. It reserves its most critical comments for government advisory panels who make and enforce food and health policy, and its failure to properly regulate the food industry. They claim lobbyists for the sugar board have been instrumental in the removal of negative statistics from research papers worldwide. Instead
The Bad and The Beautiful (1952) and State and Main (2000) are films within films that unmask Hollywood Cinema as a dream factory and expose the grotesque, veneer hidden by the luxury of stars. The Bad and the Beautiful, directed by Vincent Minnelli, is a black and white film narrated in flashback form. The films theatrical nature requires more close-ups than wide-screen shots to capture the character’s psychological turmoil. For example, Fred and Jonathan’s car ride is captured in a close-up to signify their friendship; however their relationship deteriorates after Jonathan’s deceit. While the camera zooms out, Fred stands alone motionless. Here, Fred is captured from a distance at eye-level and he becomes ostracized by the film industry and
Strange things began to happen the next couple days. First, Joey was in the living room of Grandma’s house making a jig saw puzzle. He heard the sound of a horses hooves walking slowly on the street then the sound stopped in front of the house and heard someone put something in Grandma’s mail box. Joey heard the horse walk away and a little while later Grandma’s mailbox blew up. Next, Ms. Wilcox’s outhouse was destroyed by a cherry bomb. Then, a dead mouse was found floating in the bottle of milk that was delivered to the front
In the documentary “Fed Up,” sugar is responsible for Americas rising obesity rate, which is happening even with the great stress that is set on exercise and portion control for those who are overweight. Fed Up is a film directed by Stephanie Soechtig, with Executive Producers Katie Couric and Laurie David. The filmmaker’s intent is mainly to inform people of the dangers of too much sugar, but it also talks about the fat’s in our diets and the food corporation shadiness. The filmmaker wants to educate the country on the effects of a poor diet and to open eyes to the obesity catastrophe in the United States. The main debate used is that sugar is the direct matter of obesity. Overall, I don’t believe the filmmaker’s debate was successful.
People flock to horror movies each year. Usually to be scared. Another is to solve the question of Who done it? Unfortunately, a lot of these horror movies fail to scare people or make the killer so obvious the audience gets bored. Occasionally, there are a few horror movies that stick out. Scream, directed by Wes Craven, is one of them. Wes Craven is always toying with the viewer's fears. Always finding ways to scare the audience at every turn. He also plays with the viewer's head, and has them second guessing themselves. How does he do it? Well, as one of the characters in the movie exclaims, "There's a formula to it. A very simple formula. Everybody's a suspect!" This paper will discuss how Craven uses sound, camera shots, and mise en scene
District 9 is a film that takes us into a realm of a different world from the one that we know now. It combines extraterrestrial life with immense science fiction to illustrate a story we could only imagine to ever actually occur. Although it was created for entertainment purposes, the motion picture can be compared to many different types of individuals and situations. District 9 displays many underlying concepts throughout the movie about racism, prejudice and discrimination. While studying and analyzing the plot and characters, these concepts became more translucent to me, the viewer. This paper will discuss the treatment of District 9 residents and equate their treatment to people with disabilities.
Mickleson is a lonely, quiet man who is often drunk. The narrator’s father describes him as a “weirdo” more than once. Earlier in the story the Narrator states, “Sometimes I think: If no one knows you, then you are no one” (p. 52). This goes in line with the Narrator’s fear of becoming Mickleson, a man with no family, not even a wife, and no friends to be seen.Faced with the idea of this as his future, the Narrator becomes obsessed with changing. He appears to have succeeded: at the present time where the story is being told, the Narrator appears to live a satisfactory life with a decent job and a family. He seems to have successfully avoided the future, he was so afraid of as a child. Yet, there are cracks in this facade. “Everything is green and full of sunlight, and I might as well be watching an actor portraying me in the happy ending of a movie of my life” (p. 71). The Narrator has become so used to playing a part--whether he’s acting the Detective in the imaginary city or as a son in a contented, normal family--that he can’t stop doing it. So as an adult, he crafted a perfect family, and the only remainder of his childhood is the blackouts. The blackouts begin once the Narrator goes into Mickleson’s house for the first time and continue to the current day. He fears them at first, afraid they’re being caused by a brain tumor, but he learns to normalize the blackouts as well, describing them
The Prestige is a movie about magicians that turn into enemies when a magician’s wife dies in an accident on stage. Angier’s wife dies when she is doing a trick with him and another magician Borden. Borden is possibly the one that caused her death depending on the kind of knot he tied for the trick. Throughout the movie we see several different parts of what we have seen or read in the recent chapters. Anywhere from love and attraction to aggression to the law; this movie seemed to have it all.
The Haunting of Whaley House is a film I watched for no other reason than, I just couldn 't bring my self to watch The Hills Have Eyes 2 from 2007. I love Wes Craven, but even I burn out once in a while. Though I do promise to finish The Hills Have Eyes Series this month. The Haunting of Whaley House was a great film to cleans my palette, as its very heavy on the Camp. While I won 't go as far as to say that the characters are realistic, they are both like-able and very fun. When I saw the low score it has on Netflix I almost didn 't put it on and that would have been a shame as this film is worth watching. While it is very standard for a haunted house/ghost film, it knows that it is and decides right from the first scene that it 's going
It was only two weeks ago that the world was treated to the twenty-fourth official James Bond film titled Spectre, with Daniel Craig starring as the somewhat ‘darker’ and mysterious Bond for the fourth time; “Craig’s Bond is both the inheritor of the 007 tradition and its forefather” (Gehlawat 132). The expectations for the new film were incredibly high, with a star-cast including Christopher Waltz (Inglorious Bastards) and Monica Bellucci (The Matrix), and audiences around the world have not been disappointed. The new James Bond film is breaking all the records, furthermore, the film has undoubtedly added to the staggering number of James Bond cinema-goers; “it has variously been estimated
Almost everyone has a favorite genre of film, but how everyone defines their favorite genre can differ greatly. Horror is one of the genres where its definition can be perceived differently by many people. Like all other genres, horror does have rules and traditions that must be included in order for a film to be considered a horror film. These rules and traditions include a protagonist, an antagonist, an escape or escape attempt of some sort, and very influential audio and visual effects.