4/22/20 Class

CMN 201

4/21/20

Topic: Halloween (1978/1980’s) and The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Note: I will be in our class live chat room during our scheduled class for questions/comments/issues

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Zoom Virtual Office Hour 

Tuesdays 1:45-2:45 or by appointment

https://zoom.us/j/7028190433

Meeting ID: 702-819-0433

--- Movie links in previous post

--- 28 Days Later (2000’s)

---Final Project

Projected Fears: Chap 5 (Exorcist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Chap 6 (Halloween)

Horror Film: Chap 3 (1974-present)

Nightmares: Chap 7 (Shrinking Man) Chap 15 (Carpenter)

The Exorcist – collapse of religion

Nominated for numerous academy awards

Class Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyY_BO_yONM

Halloween

---Continued collapse of family 

--- Halloween director John Carpenter (USC grad)influenced by Psycho (looking/gazing, iconic soundtrack, Dr. Sam Loomis, Janet Leigh/Jamie Lee Curtis)

---Released independently/regionally, first in Kansas City ($320,000 budget, over $55 million in sales: one of highest grossing films of all times)

---Panagilde (Steadycam). murderer’s view

--- Slasher films (President Reagan: conservative era)

---Punish sexual promiscuity, smoking marijuana, etc. (appearance vs. reality – what is under mask)

---Critique of suburbia

---Knife as  phallic image (sexual frustration/repression)

--- Final girl

---Teens

---Absent parents

---Serial killers (boogyman)

---Supernatural possibilities

---Trivia: William Shatner mask

Watch The Blair Witch Project, 1999 (See Amazon link in previous post)

Nightmares: Chap 8 & 9 ( Postmodern Horror I & II)

Horror Film: (Digital Horrors)

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Attendance Question: (please submit vis email with name and class)

What movie did I almost assign instead of Halloween?