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This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

The nature of Horror movies

The movie, ‘Diary of the dead’, which was screened this year made the film critics think that another version of the Cloverfield has made a mark. This is story is about a young group of students who run in to real life zombies while they were on an educational trip to record their own horror movie. The camera action which has been introduced is different from the rest of the movies but it is similar to the attempt made by the visual director of Clovefield. The advertising of the movie through trailers has been done effectively as it grabs the audience’s attention to take them to a new side of horror.

The incidences they face is totally unexpected. As the script of the movie unfolds, the tension which creates in the viewer’s mind gets more and more intense scene by scene. This is story rather proves the fact that mothers are dreadful creatures in the horror movie industry. It is when one family becomes zombies and mother is trying to kill her own daughter. The deadly nature of the use of women signifies a lot of things in a horror movie. This is why the directors use women as a form of creating the deadly revulsion in a movie. This is obvious to anyone who has seen the movie ‘Shutter’.

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