No crazed individual was causing all of the chaos. According to Wikipedia on the web, those are horror movies too. So, maybe I do like a good horror flick; it’s just the slasher flick that I have been opposed to all along. Maybe I had been looking at the whole genre of horror films from the wrong point of view. Reading further into Mr. King’s essay, I was intrigued by the notion that a horror movie might actually have a role to play in civilized society.
The “CSI Effect” can be observed when watching television shows such as CSI, Criminal Minds, NCIS, Bones, etc. These shows give the audience what we think is education about Forensic Science but also adds some drama and sexiness to it. Not only does the “CSI Effect” affect us viewers, it affects the whole judicial system along with the safety of you and your loved ones. The “CSI Effect” is the way the crime television shows are misinterpreted which then cause’s confusion among society. After you have watched CSI, you tend to think Forensic Science is easy and could possibly be a fun career.
She also writes some about politicians and the Juvenile Justice system. Sternheimer points to other possible reasons for the violent acts of the youth such as, the home life. While it may be that juvenile crimes have declined and personal backgrounds effect actions, it cannot be said this proves video game violence has no effect on youth. Sternheimer begins by explaining how video games violence has become a “folk devil” (204) to explain unexplainable happenings of youth shootings and this is just the one to follow the many other explanations the media and politicians have given for problem youth. She then brings up the issue of unnerving newspaper headlines such as “Bloodlust Video Games Put Kids in the Crosshairs” (205).
Kemper’s mother had sent him to live with his grandparents because she was tired of his eccentric behavior. Edmund Kemper, seventeen at the time, decided to shoot his grand mother “just to see how it felt” and eventually shot his grandfather when he returned home. He was sent to a mental asylum later for his actions but proved to his psychologist, through assistant work and studies, that he was deemed normal enough for release including expunging his juvenile records. However, he was still fascinated with killer which began his murder campaign around the age of 24. Edmund worked for the department of transportation in Santa Cruz and began to pick up hitchhikers, bring them to deserted areas, and brutally rape and kill them.
Visit: www.layingthefoundation.org “The C Word in the Hallways,” Anna Quindlen Student Activity (1) The saddest phrase I’ve read in a long time is this one: psychological autopsy. That’s what the doctors call it when a kid kills himself and they go back over the plowed ground of his short life, and discover all the hidden markers that led to the rope, th e blade, the gun. There’s a plague on all our houses, and since it doesn’t announce itself with lumps or spots or protest marches, it has g
Alexandre Bardet Professor Searcy English Com 122 18 Oct, 2010 The MPAA should review the way ratings are completed in the terms of Sexual content in the films viewed. After viewing the movie “This movie is not yet rated”, you cannot miss the confusion moviemakers have about their ratings received. Any Sexual content in films has to receive a rating. Although it is totally understandable, a “R” rating would allow the moviemaker to extend its commercial use on TV or else; a “NC-17” rating will not allow them to project their film in most of the movie theaters. The “sex” issue in the movies should be reviewed by the MPAA, because how could someone rate an act of love and passion when we live in a society with violence.
Why Do People Love Horror Movies? For years people have been scared senseless by horror movies, yet we continue to watch them. Horror movies are extremely popular throughout society today. But what is it about a good scary movie that makes us decide to go to the movies and see the new “Friday the 13th” movie and not “When Harry Met Sally?” Maybe it’s the rather eventful way a horror movie portrays the night life, or the feeling you get in your chest when you clearly know someone is about to die, or even the raw sex appeal a horror movie depicts to both men and women. The night life portrayed in a horror movie is definitely more lively than that of the life many of us live every day.
There are many elements that people expect to see in such films. These things may include a surprise ending, different camera angles, and of course, violence. After watching such movies, a person may begin to feel a chill down their spine or goose bumps on their arms. Yet, time and time again, audiences spend money to watch these movies, paying little regard to the effects the film can cause. After watching a horror movie, people can feel anxiety, suffer from paranoia, experience sleeplessness, and establish phobias throughout their life.
Horror films are made to give people a thrill seeking feeling by its mental act. These movies are mostly unreal but others are true stories based on someone’s real life. What kind of feeling people have from watching a scary movie may differ. According to the article “Horror movies: Why people love them” by Leslie Fink, one of the reasons we watch so many scary movies is because of the thrill it gives us and how it brings the primal behavior to assess threat levels. Just because someone has a strong desire to watch horror films doesn’t mean they are complete freaks because many just love the adrenaline rush that these types of movies give off.
I prefer the horror movies that have the good plot and understanding script. In my opinion, I think people crave for horror movie because it’s not something that we see everyday, it’s something that we don’t know and never experienced it before. It kind of give me more perspective of life. In the other hand, sometimes when I watched the horror movie, I promise to myself that I wouldn’t watch this kind of movie again because it gives me nightmare and give me the kind of fear that I don’t want. But when the next horror movie comes out, I go watching it.