Thursday, October 29, 2009
Renaissance Festival
Renaissance Festival Review
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Hush: Review
Monday, October 26, 2009
Psycho: Review
The film "Psycho", directed by Alfred Hitchcock, was a masterpiece of its time, as it had every aspect a scary movie needs to be successful. It was dark, creepy, sexy, mysterious, and shocking. Even being from some 50 years ago it had you guessing the whole way through if the mother was alive and killing or some other twist. It starts out with Marion Crane, played by Janet Leigh in bed with a married man not married to her. She then goes into work where her boss trusts her with $40,000 to take to the bank. Ofcourse she takes off with the money and tries to cover up her tracks on the way. She stops at a motel one night where there is a lonely motel keeper named Anthony Perkins, played by Norman Bates, who lives alone with his mom up the hill. However, just when you think your following the main charecter she is killed in one of the most famous killing scenes known, the shower. This opened up a whole new type of horror movies called slasher films. After this there is a private detective that come in and later the police as the mystery is unraveled slowly with the occasional killing. This was a great film and a classic and i would recommend anyone to see it.
Opening image: Janet in bed with a married man
Theme stated: When the old guy talks about you can't buy happiness you can only happiness, which is what the guy in the end did by taking his mothers personality.
Set up: Janet at work talking with her boss.
Debate: She is deciding if she really wants to run off with the money
Break into 2: She leaves town and is seen by her boss, as well as the cop
B story: Where she goes to the motel and meets Anthony.
Fun and games: She is killed in the shower.
Midpoint:When the detective is hired and goes looking around for clues.
Bad guys close in: When the detective is killed.
All is lost: Nobody knows where Janet or the Detective are.
Dark night of the soul: Janet's sister is all sad because they can't find her and she thinks something happened to her.
Break into 3: When the sister and another guy go to the motel to try to find out what happened.
Finale: When they are attacked by the killer and manage to subdue him.
Final image: Anthony talking to himself as his mother.
-Adam
Psycho Review
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Buffy The Vampire Slayer "Hush" Review

Before even tempting to watch anything that Joss Whedon does, you must understand that your in for something different and something that you may consider odd. It depends if you enjoy the finer things in movie or not because that may determine if this movie is up your alley. Joss is an award winning director with a mind out of this world and if your down with these types of movie you should seriously consider reading the rest of my blog.
- Paul
Monday, October 19, 2009
Buffy The Vampire Slayer "Halloween" Review
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Halloween
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Review: Nosferatu
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Nosferatu Review
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Night of the Living Dead (1968): Beat sheet and Review
Beat Sheet/Review: Night of The Living Dead 1968
1. Opening Image (1):A car driving on a winding road.
2. Theme Stated (5):"They're going to get you Barbra"
3. Set-Up (1-10): Barbra and her brother are visiting her fathers grave and putting flowers on her fathers grave.
4. Catalyst (12): Barbra's brother got killed by the goole.
5. Debate (12-25): Barbra trying to get away from the goole.
6. Break into Two (25) Car crashes and runs away down the middle of the street.
7. B Story (30):Barbra hides in the house and meets Ben.
8. Fun and Games (30-55): The gooles try to come in the house and Ben fighting them off with his gun and catching everything on fire.
9. Midpoint (55): When they meet the other people.
10. Bad Guys Close In (55-75): When they ran outside the gooles started chasing Ben and Tom.
11. All Is Lost (75):Judy and Harry die in truck explosion.
12. Dark Night of the Soul (75-85): When Ben and Tom fight.
13. Break into Three (85): Zombie girl kills her mother
14. Finale (85-110): Ben is the only one alive against all the gooles.
15. Final Image (110): Ben fights off all the gooles and goes to the basement and waits it out till the next morning and then gets shot by mistake by the police.
Most movies that you watch and you really can not recognize any actors you do not have too high of expectations of the movie but Night of The Living Dead that was made in 1968 carries its own. The movie has a lot of humor do to the budget it was on and the animations it has. From the "gooles" eating the flesh of others to one African American man by the name of Duane Jones, played by Ben who was a man who defeated most of the zombie gooles by himself. There were a few parts that a really frustrating because Barbra is just such a dumb dead beat of a character when she just sits through the entire scene when zombies are trying to break into the house. In other parts this movie makes you hungry because the zombies that eat flesh are actually eating chicken which is actually pretty funny but does make you hungry. For a movie that was made in 1968, it is actually pretty good and also adds some good shadowing as well. Director George Romero does a great job of these edits and makes smooth transitions throughout the movie. The chocolate syrup is a good way of acting as blood and makes perfect sense with a black and white film. My favorite part would defiantly be the part when Ben gets tired of the old man and finally lets him have it but I was shocked with the ending of the movie but I am not going to ruin the surprise for you so I will just let you see it. I would give it a 3 stars and would recommend you to watch it if you a true fan a of creativity.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Beat Sheet: Shrek
1. Opening Image (1): Shrek alone and living in his swamp.
2. Theme Stated (5): Sign says keep out around his house.
3. Set-Up (1-10): When they were capturing all the fairy tell creatures
4. Catalyst (12): Shrek saving donkey from the soldiers
5. Debate (12-25): Shrek and Donkey talking about living together.
6. Break into Two (25) When they go to the castle to get his swamp back from the king
7. B Story (30): Where they go and save the princess
8. Fun and Games (30-55): Where they are bringing her back to the king
10. Bad Guys Close In (55-75): Where Shrek brings the king to take Feona away
11. All Is Lost (75): Where Shrek goes back to the swamp.
12. Dark Night of the Soul (75-85): Where he is all alone and depressed.
13. Break into Three (85): Where Donkey tells him to go get Feona back.
14. Finale (85-110): Where Shrek saves her from the Wedding.
15. Final Image (110): Everyone is together with Shrek at the Swamp.
