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Candy Man (Blog #3)

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Candyman, Romantic or Rapey? In the 1992, American Supernatural Horror film, Candyman , there is more than meets the eye with urban legend the Candyman who appears if you say his name five times in a mirror and kills people frequently in the urban street of Chicago. The films touches on topics like racism, sexism, sexual assault, and more while keeping the audience on their toes! One aspect of the film that carries throughout it is the concept of women being punished for disobedience, whether it be expressing their sexuality or making the Candyman upset directly. The beginning of the movie shows Clara cheating on her boyfriend with Billy and they call for the Candyman together. She is ultimately murdered as well as the baby she was watching, while Billy ran off. She is being punished for being promiscuous. Helen was often picking up weapons and then having someone walk in on her and dead bodies, so not too good of a plan there girl. This comes up again when Helen and Berna...
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My Bloody Valentine (2009)- Patrick Lussier

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  Initially, I chose this movie because of the title. I love romance novels, story lines, plots, and movies. However, I was in for a rude awakening when I first saw the promo reels for the film, and the trailer. This film although very interesting, it did kill romance for me for a bit. The start of the film, definitely did give me an "AH-HA" moment, in the first few minutes, I immediately seen the relation to the idea of "Slasher". I have seen the promo for this film before however, I never thought it's plot was         related to any literary idea or background. The Plot The film starts in a very.... let's just say, creepy looking town. Some of a few minutes later, we are introduced to the horror in the film (they did NOT waste any time). There are 2-3 people who are killed by the main character Warren, after he awakens from a coma. They he puts a heart in a valentines day box-- Ha, ha! I see what they did there. Things move rather quickly, and if y...
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Into the Dark: Midnight Kiss [Blog #3 - Slasher Film]

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Into the Dark : "Midnight Kiss" Figure #1 - The poster for the "Midnight Kiss" episode in Hulu's original Into the Dark  series. Slasher films are iconic for their standardized formula. Most, if not all, follow a similar structure when telling their story: the usage of a terrible place/location, the traits of the killer, the final girl, the weapons the murderer uses, etc. But have you ever stopped to consider if any slasher film handles its discussions in a modernized way? Making it perhaps... gay-friendly? Yes, I have found a film that tackles the slasher genre in a gay space... and it is amazing in its conversations! Be prepared to see how the LGBT+ community can also run a slasher film. As part of the Into the Dark Hulu original series, "Midnight Kiss" remixes normal horror movie conventions with gay subject-matter. To provide brief and concise summary: a group of four gay men  (Cameron, Joel, Zachary, and Logan) and one straight wom...
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Slasher Blog #3

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All the boys love Mandy Lane         In this slasher film All the boys love Mandy Lane , you see a set of high school kids, the two high strung, overly sexual teenage girls, Marlin and Chole, the three boys, Red who takes the role of the smoker, and the joker, Bird the typical jock, buff and brave, then Jake who isn't a gentleman by any means and is a very aggressive sexual being who wants Chole, Marlin and the pure untouched virgin, Mandy Lane who decided to head to Reds' Ranch for what was supposed to be a fun and                                         wild weekend, wild nonetheless.  Jake, Red who is passing a joint, and Bird hanging on the couch at the Ranch.         Many Lane doesn't fit into this tight knit group very well, but she fakes it until she makes it. Her "friend" Emmet seems to be more her pace, a lo...
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Slasher Blog- Candyman

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We Dare You To Say His Name Five Times *Warning, Flashing Lights* Overview The movie Candyman (directed by Bernard Rose) is about a professor from the University of Illinois, Helen Lyle, trying to prove that the urban legend Candyman is not real and is just a work of fiction. Since Helen doesn't believe that he's real and starts telling some residents from the Cabrini-Green community that Candyman isn't real, strange and horrific events began happening around her. While working on her thesis, she discovers where the origin of the story came from, as a colleague of hers has written his own work about the Candyman story. The legend goes that in 1890, Candyman was a son of a former slave, who then became an inventor after the Civil War. Because of the family's wealth due Candyman's father creating a device for making shoes, Candyman grew up in a polite society. As a man, Candyman became an artist who fell in love with a landowner's daughter and got her pr...
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Slasher Blog: I Know What You Did Last Summer

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I Know What You Did Last Summer movie poster Following the story of four friends who share a dark secret on the Fourth of July,  I Know What You Did Last Summer  is a slasher film directed by Jim Gillespie. Based off the novel by Lois Duncan, the 1997 film follows four friends after they committed a dark crime on the Fourth of July. Getting drunk on the beach with her friends, Julie James (played by Jennifer Love Hewitt) must hold onto the secret of the man they accidently hit with their car, but then dumped into the water to cover it up. A year later, Julie returns home from college to find that someone besides the four of them know what happened. As she slowly reunites with the other three (starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippee, & Freddie Prinze Jr.) from that night, the film makes it clear that someone is out to get those who were involved, even in the slightest bit.  What really adds this film into the slasher series is the use of the Final Gi...
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Candyman

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 You would expect Candyman to be a predictable and stereotypical horror movie. But I really believe it wasn't. It caught you off guard, it left you questioning. It also really didn't have a lot of the typical stereotypes you would normally see. which kind of made it different than the rest of the horror movies. At the same time, it did have horror movie attributes. Helen when she was explaining how Candyman can actually be a real person At first, this movie started off like any horror movie. With a warning about the monster Candyman. A college student told the story of a stereotypical dumb blond who said his name five times in the mirror and dies.  Then the main character gets introduced her name is Helen and she's clearly going to be the final girl. She is this white female who is very educated and wants to study the folk tail of candyman. what ends up happening is she starts showing that candyman When Helen was in the mental hospital and she saw candyma...
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