Resident Evil

1) Resident Evil, Directed by Paul Anderson.

Act 1: A women named Alice, wakes up in a mansion with total amnesia. No sooner than she wakes up, the the house is stormed by troopers who force her down a secret elevator into a facility known as The Hive, which is owned by the Umbrella Corp., along with another one of her Co-workers, named Matt, that she remembers, and who also has amnesia. The Troopers' job is to disable the facility and report back what happened to HQ. They reach the mother computer and turn it back on.

Act 2: The group comes across a survivor but she attacks them… After firing several rounds the "survivor" is not dead and more start pouring into the room. They group attempts to escape the zombies and make it back to the surface. Along the way Alice and Matt begin remembering what happened at the facility. It is also revealed that the zombies were created by a virus known as the T-Virus, which was somehow released into the vents of the facility before lock down.

Act 3: Matt remembers that he is the one who tried to steal the virus and also who released it in the facility. After remembering that, Matt abandons the group heading for the train, which is the only way out. However he is ambushed by a mutated creatures and is killed. Meanwhile Alice struggles with the remaining survivors to escape the facility. After a narrow escape of the facility, Alice is then captured by more Umbrella officials. She then wakes up on an operating table with no one around. As she wakes out of the building a newspaper flies by with the headlines "The Dead Walk", she then grabs a shotgun and the movie ends.

2) Alice, until she remembers whats going on, is sort of a damsel in distress… It is up to the marines to do all the fighting. Matt, is self-centered and greedy. He cares nothing for the other group members and only looks out for himself.

3) The main thing that is scary about this film is the feeling of hopelessness… Such as numerous occasions when the team is surrounding by the hungry walking dead.

4) It seemed to me that the Zombies always knew where the team was… For example the teams goes through the sewers to avoid the zombies crawling in the hallways… But what'a ya know… As soon as they are in a one way hallway… zombies start pouring in from all directions. If I were directing this… I would have changed that.

The Exorcist

Although the Exorcist is a very old movie so its special effects aren't the best it still portrays a very scary concept. For example the make up that they used for Emily Rose was extremely corny, but it shows just how scar the whole idea is.

The plot of this is film, is that a normal family goes through the worst experience ever. The little girl get more and more sick with her possession. Finally they get a priest that does exorcism to exorcize the little girl, which concludes in the exorcists death.

The main character is Emily Rose, who is a typical girl that just moved in to her new home, gets possessed by the devil. The second main character would be the priest who does the exorcism. He puts in as much as he can to exorcise her, while dealing with his own at home problems with his mom, which the devil who exorcised Emily mocks. He ends up getting possessed himself and jumping out of a window to kill himself.

The director does a really good job with this movie, in the possession aspect. Especially the shots where her bed is thumping up and down really hard, and where she can not control her body violently going up and down on her bed.

If I were to have directed this movie I would not have done much different, except for the special effects seeing that it was made a few generations ago.

nowhere

Greg Araki's teenage apocalypse movies are a horrifying trilogy of youthful abandon and the end of days. 1997s Nowhere is a stylistic and sexy look at the terror of existence. The third and last entry into the apocalypse series is it the most bizarre. The two before, Totally Fucked Up and The Doom Generation gradually decline into the weirdness of Nowhere.

The horror of Nowhere is derived from the style. The film opens with Dark, our protaganist (among a cast of dozens) in the shower. It is only recognizable as a shower from the noise of the water running. Dark is surrounded by a world of white. He fantasizes about his lover, his crush and his fetishes. It has something in common with the most important shower scene on film, Psycho. Only when his green-faced mother burst in she degrades him for masturbating instead of stabbing him to death. Dying of embarrassment rather than blood loss.

Now we see the real world of the movie. Dark stands in his blue room, wearing an American flag towel a mural of a man with a revolver to his temple covers one entire wall. This movie is a bit exaggerated. The acting is over the top. The doom is ever present. He gets a call from his promiscuous bi-sexual lover Mel. She and her silver-tounged, blue-haired bitch girlfriend Lucifer pick him up and take him further into the world of the movie. They drive past a bloody car wreck, an unrecognizable human form reaches at them, they're unfazed. Now we happen upon Dark's crush, a shy green and blue eyed gay classmate named Montgomery. He waits by a bus stop the reads "GOD SAVE ME". The only innocent character in the film.

They arrive at their breakfast nook, a punk peach pit. Then we are bombarded with nearly every character in the film. An endless line of gay hardcore musicians, bubble gum wrapper bimbos, braceface geeks, surfer dudes, teen idols. By the time we make it to the twin brother and his lover we can't even remember who his sister was. they stand on a boardwalk having their fortunes told. "Death" the gypsy tells them, "Cool!" he ecstatically replies before sucking his girlfriend's face. A pair that only appears in the movie to have sex and cut each other.

Then we are taken back to Dark. Our anchor in this madhouse. He waits at a bus stop, three metal-mouthed, loud-mouthed valley girls chat incessantly next to him. "Who's sleeping with Tomás?" Across the street an anthropomorphic lizard aims a ray gun at them. Dark struggles to turn on his camera but by the time he gets it, ZAP. Their retainers lie melting to the bench.

I could go on describing the film as it goes. The horror of the film is its environment. The world is falling apart and these teenagers don't notice, too wrapped up in their own personal lives. This movie is a horror movie about our futures, the world is going to end but will we even take notice?

28 Days Later Critique

1. 28 Days Later was released in 2002 and directed by Danny Boyle. A man wakes up in a hospital after being in a coma for 28 days. He walks around London which seems to have been deserted for quite some time now. Then encounters a crazy person covered in blood with fire red eyes. The chase begins and the man runs threw an abandoned gas station until he meets up with two other survivors named Selena and Mark who save him. The man with no name then explains who is and it is reveled that his name is Jim. The three of them go to Jim's house to see if his parents are still alive. They aren't. Then they get attacked by zombies and Mark gets infected. So they have to kill him and move on until they meet up with a man named Frank and his daughter Anna who have fortified themselves in threw apartment complex. They decide that they must travel together to find food and water and a new shelter. Eventually Frank gets infected by one of the zombies and he is shot by marines who have come to rescue them. They are then taken to a mansion in the country side. Anna becomes depressed and Selena and Jim try to comfort her and they end up becoming a family. Then the marines try to kill Jim and rape the girls. Jim ends up killing all of them with the help of the zombies and saves Selena and Anna. Then they escape and get to a cottage in the country side and wait for the zombies to starve to death.

2. Jim starts not knowing what is going on but by the end becomes a leader for the other survivors.

Selena at first is only concerned about herself and doesn't care about the other survivors because she thinks there going to die. But by the end she loves Anna and Jim.

Anna starts off as more of a childish character but after her father dies she grows up more.

Frank is a father figure to the entire group and its heart breaking when he dies because he is keeping everyone together.

3. The director evokes horror into the film by making it seem like no one is going to survive because the zombies are crazy and they run really fast and vomit blood every where. The film is more disturbing than it is scary.

4. I wouldn't change any thing because this movie is fantastic.

Changeling.

1.The film Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood, is an eerily haunting story about Christine Collins battle with the LAPD to recover her kidnapped son. The police returned a boy that is not her own, and the movie delves into a gruesome story of what really happened to unfortunate Walter Collins

2. Christine Collins : The protagonist. She is a single mother living in Los Angeles. Her son Walter is kidnapped and the plot of the movie is her frantically searching for him. She is persistent, held together, and very strong. In many cases she is horribly brutalized by the police and these experiences only make her grow as a character.

Captain JJ Jones: He is the police man who oversees the Collins case. He is shady, and self centered, and also is very dangerous if one goes against him. In the beginning of the film he is a protagonist, but as it progresses his role very clearly morphs into an antagonist force working against Christine Collins.

Gordon Northcott: He is the antagonist in this film. This man is sadistic and twisted. He kidnaps children, keeps then in a chicken coop and then brutally murders them. This character is terryifying and completely evil.

3. Clint Eastwood used camera angles very affectively in this film. In the horror scenes he shot from the perspective of the trapped children, stuck in a chicken coupe. He also used a shot of the bloody axe swinging down into the camera, but made it not stereotypically horror, instead it is just sickening.

4. The storyline itself is rather horrific, honestly it is a worst nightmare situation. A kidnapped child is taken and brutally murdered, while the police all along are insisting that another random child is in fact that missing boy.

5. If I were directing this then I think I would have spent more time on Walter himself, so that the viewer feels more of an emotional connection to him when he disappears.

Oh, The Horror!

For your first film critique of the year, you will choose a horror film and dissect it for it's horror-evoking qualities--both visually and conceptually. Please find the critique template by clicking onto our class website and downloading the file, "filmcritique1". You will be posting your critique on this blog! Feel free to attach a screenshot from the film or a link to the trailer!
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Welcome to CoSA Film 2010-2011

In celebration of our brand new Film Complex and our brand new crop of talented filmmakers, I have decided to adopt "blogging" as our brand new way of documenting our CoSA Film happenings over the course of the year! We will utilize this blog site primarily for recording production hour experiences, but really, this blog is yours! I'm sure we will think of more creative uses for this great tool. Happy First Day of School!