Horror Film Researches

Film 1:

The slasher genre consists of films having a male antagonist. This is done to freak out its audience. It consists of psychopathic killers which stalk and kill their victims usually in a high graphics. Often the antagonists use a cutting tool most often a knife which represents the phallic symbol. The slasher genre tends to consist of violence, sex, and drugs.

One film I will be investigating will be nightmare on Elm Street. This film is placed in the lasher genre. Nightmare on Elm Street was released in 1984. Here is a poster of the film.

In this poster there is shown;

•  An antagonist having a small ray of glowing light behind him which represents the amount of power that antagonist has.
• The antagonist is hiding half his face with a hat which shows he is unknown and has no identity, giving us the idea of mystery and fear.
• The antagonist is resting his hands together which suggest he is waiting. This makes the audience feel insecure.
• While the hand is resting together there is a long claw with the tip glowing, this shows the antagonists cutting weapon he will use.
• The antagonist on the poster is also shown to have a slight grin on his face suggesting that he is confident and he is expecting victims.
• The antagonist is wearing a knitted jumper but their one has holes in which suggests he has killed before and succeeded. This shows that all his victims are venerable.

Facts

Film title: Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Tagline: Welcome to your nightmare

Characters: Heather Longenkemp as Nancy Thompson

                      Robert England as Freddy Krueger

                      John Saxon as LT.don Thompson

                      Johnny Depp as Glen Lantz

                      Ronee Blakley as Marge Thompson

                      Amanda wyss as Tina Gray

                      Nicki Corri as Rod Lane

                      Joe unger as SGT. Gracia

Producer: Robert Shaye

Editors: Patrick Mc Mahon

             Rick Shaine

Director and writer: Wes Craven

Distributor: New line cinema

Release date: 16^th November 1984

Budget: $1,800,000 (estimated)

Grossed: $25,504,513

Open Weekend: $1,271,000

The storyline of the film is that the killer on nightmare on Elm Street called Freddy Krueger picks on a group of friends and torments them. The killer kills the group of friends one by one. He kills in a specific order from the students least pure to the purest of students. By killing the victims one by one he is having the one victim remaining. Nancy Thompson is seen as the poltergeist and she has to fight the antagonist. The killer kills it’s victims in their sleep when they are dreaming or in this case having nightmares.

The keywords they use in the film are dream, nightmares, Freddy Krueger, victims and Elm Street.

The equilibrium of the film is a group of friends going to college. The disequilibrium is that the killer is killing then one by one. The equilibrium is that the protagonist has to kills the antagonist before he kills her. There was a remake of Nightmare on Elm Street and it has grossed more money that the first.

Budget: $35,000,000 (estimated)

Grossed: $113,400,000

Open Weekend: $32,902,299

Film 2:

The vampire genre is a traditional horror films from back in the days when vampires were seen as the main idea of horror. The idea that vampires suck blood from humans was taken from folk beliefs in Africa, medieval times, European times, religious beliefs and Asia. The most common vampire leader is called the Dracula. The vampire horror film was created from folklore and religious beliefs. Vampires and werewolves are shown to not get along in the modern century. The werewolf genre was created around the 18^th century. Werewolves are seen as man beasts. The ideas came from fairy tales such as little red riding hood and the three little pigs. The werewolf concept is also come from ancient Greek literature and methodology. There was folklore, cultures and beliefs which made werewolf films. The vampire connection between werewolves and vampires is that after werewolves get executed in there werewolves identity they get cremated as vampires. The classic example of werewolf is the wolf man (1941) which is a man who transform in to a werewolf at the full moon. The ideas of werewolves and vampires are seen as gothic culture. The two creatures bounce of each other.

One film I will be investigating would be American werewolf in London. This film is placed in the werewolf and vampire genre. An American werewolf in London was released in 1981. Here is a poster advertising the film. Here is a poster of the film.

In this poser there is shown;

•  A dark background with the full moon showing. This suggests that there is something in the darkness which gives the audience the sense of anxiety.
• There is shown to be men wearing a puffy coat which suggests it’s a cold night and it’s their protection form the wind.
• The two men are looking back the pathway they have just walked and their eyes give the sense of uncertainty and show there defenceless.
• One of the characters is shown to have his mouth open which connotes his way worry he might be having.

Facts

Film title: An American werewolf in London (1981)

Tagline: From the director of animal house, a different kind of animal.

Characters: David Naughton as David Kessler

                      Jenny Agutter as Nurse Alex Price

                      John Woodvine as Dr.J.S.Hirson

                      Lila Kage as Barmaid

                      Frank Oz as Mr.Collins

                      John Landis as Man smashed in the window

                      David Schofield as Dart player

                      Brian Glover as Chess player

                      Rik Mayall as Man in pub (2^nd chess player)

                      Don Mc Kiloop as Inspector Villers

                      Paul Kember as Sergeant Mc Manus

                      Linzi Drew as Brenda Bristols

Producers: Geroge Folsey Jr.

                   Jon Peters

                   Peter Guber

Editor: Malcolm Campbell

Director and Writer: John Lewis

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Release date: 21th august 1981

Budget: $10,000,000 (estimated)

Grossed: $30,565,292

Open Weekend: $3,786,512

The storyline is that two American students were on a walking tour around Britain and they were suddenly attacked by a werewolf. On friend was killed and the other got hurt. The werewolf is killed however it changes into a human   and the local town people are unaware of its existence. The American student which has survived begins to have horrible nightmare of hunting it’s pray on four feet. He then finds out that his friend and other recent victims appear to him demanding that he finds a way to die and release them from the curse. The friend and other victims are trapped between the worlds because of their unnatural deaths.

The keywords they use are werewolf, American, curse, nightmare and deaths.

The equilibrium is that friends went on a walking tour around Britain. The disequilibrium is that the friend gets killed and the other friend is hurt and then turns into a werewolf. The equilibrium would be to set the souls free by sacrificing his life. There was a re-make of an American werewolf in London in 2009 but however there is no information found in its funding and profit.

Film 3:

Another film I will be investigating will be from the genre of vampires. The film is called Daybreakers. This film was released in 2009. Here is a poster advertising the film.

In this poster there is shown;

• Three columns of people in a casing of some kind this suggests that it’s a science style film.
• There are also shown to be four rows of people on top of each other which suggest it’s some kind of body examination test.
• The people are shown to be nude who suggest that all these people have this one identity they share.
• There is shown to be a glowing light blue light in the background which suggest the unknown and gives the audience curiosity.
• The people’s faces are not shown clearly which suggest they have no personality or individuality.
• The people in these glass masked cases suggest an army of people with one identity and only one aim.

Facts

Film title: Daybreakers (2009)

Tagline: In 2009, the most precious nature resource is…..US

Characters: Ethan Hawke as Edward Dalton

                      Willem Dafoe as Lionel “elvis” Cormac

                      Sam Neill as Charles Bromley

                      Claudia Karvan as Audrey Bennett

                      Michael Dorman as Frankie Dalton

                      Isabel Lucus as Alison Bromley

                      Vince Colosimo as Christopher Caruso

                      Robyn Moore as Forensic investigator simms

                      Jay Laga’aia as Senator Tuner

Producers: Chris Brown

                   Sean Furst

                   Bryan Furst

Editor: Matt Villa

Director and writer: Micheal Spierig

                                     Peter Spierig

Distributor: Lionsgate

Release date: 6^th January 2010

Budget: $20,000,000 (estimated)

Grossed: $29,975,979

Open Weekend: $15,146,692

The storyline is that in the future vampires take up the majority of the population with only a small percentage of the human race remaining. This makes the vampire lives hard as its survival of the fittest as there is a small supply of human blood. So vampires in that world are doing everything they can to survive. A doctor called Dr. Edward Dalton a vampire and haematologist who are trying to create an artificial blood supply to keep the vampire race going. But his idea changed once he meets someone who can transform them into a human kind as well as a vampire.

The keywords used in this film are vampire, blood, rationing, vampire society and plague.

The equilibrium is that there is a society of vampires who are all one community. The disequilibrium is that the vampire society is running out of supply of food e.g: blood. The equilibrium is to convert vampires into humans so they can eat human food and

Survive but then they can have the ability change back.

Film 4:

The splatter genre is full of guts and gore to extreme extents in the main horror genre. This genre specifically focusses on gore and graphic portrayals. This genre focusses on this type of horror because it wants to show the vulnerability of the human body. The amount of graphic, sex and violence almost turns the platter genre in to cold porn. The killer tends to have a cutting weapon which represents the phallic symbol. The splatter genre was mainly inspired by other films like the thirteen women (1932) and other films like peeping tom (1960). Splatter films are generally have unknown killers at first and then by the end of the film the killer is revealed. The killer tends to not show their faces or they have masks on. The splatter plot often has a twist at the end. The killer often kills in this sub-genre because they have an eventful past. The splatter genre also has a final girl to survive. In the splatter film there is shown to be a protagonist, antagonist and a group of other people. The adult and police are often shown as to not understand the victims.

One film I will be researching in the genre of splatter from the main genre of horror is the film saw. This film was released in 2004. It’s a film with lots of gore and about torturing and killing. This is a poster representing the film.

In this poster there is shown;

• The woman on the poster is only showing her hard and her eyes are shown to be big and bold. This suggests she is in shock or frightened of something.
• The woman is wearing a torturing head helmet with all these belts and wires joined on to it. This suggests she is going to be tortured to love of die. This gives the audience the sense that this horror film has extreme gore and it will be over whelming.
• The poster image is in black and white which suggest the film will have the fear of the unknown and that gives the audience insecurity.

Facts

Film title: Saw (2004)
Tagline: How much blood would you shed to stay alive?
Characters: Cary Elwes as Dr. Lawrence Gordon
               Danny Glover as Detective David Tapp
               Monica Potter as Alison Gordon
               Tobin Bell as John Kramer/Jigsaw
               Michael Emerson as Zep Hindle
               Leigh Whannell as Adam Stanheight
               Dina Meyer as Detective Allison Kerry
              Shawnee Smith as Amanda Young
              Mike Butters as Paul Stallberg
              Paul Gutrecht as Mark Wilson
              Ken Leung as Detective Steven Sing
              Makenzie Vega as Diana Gordon
              Ned Bellamy as Jeff Ridenhour
              Alexandra Bokyun Chun as Carla
                    Oren Koules as Donnie Greco
Producers: Gregg Hoffman
                   Mark Burg
                   Oren Koules
Editor: Kevin Greutert
Director: James Wan
Writers: James Wan
               Leigh Whannell
Distributor: Lionsgate
Released date: 1^st October 2004
Budget: $1,200,000 (estimated)
Grossed: $102,898,683
Open Weekend: $1,239,813

The storyline is that a killer called Jigsaw gets and captures victims that need to be punished. The killer doesn’t kill his victims but the victim has to kill one another to survive. The two men who wake up to find themselves in a bathroom with their ankles chained to pipes realise that there task is to kill one another with the saws in the bath or their family will get hurt. They have to do this by 6:00. The main idea is the killer wants to see how far people would go to survive.

The keywords used in this film are killer, flashback, bathroom, torture and serial killer.

The equilibrium is a good start two different men are living a happy life. The disequilibrium is that a killer called Jigsaw is out there capturing people and making the people tortures themselves to survive this life game he has planned. The equilibrium is that the people who jigsaw has trapped have to try and escape alive.

There was seen as five other Saw series and there was a Saw 3D version. The full series of saw has made profit and it has been very popular in the horror category.

Film 5:

Psychological thriller is a combination of sub genres such as mystery and thriller. It is the idea of reality people’s unconscious desires which are combined into one to make a horror film. Psychological and supernatural elements are examples such as Ghosts and supernatural would be seen in human life such as witchcraft.

One film I will be researching in the genre of psychological and supernatural is poltergeist. This film was released in 1982. It’s a film about supernatural and the unknown. Here is a poster advertising the film.

In this poster there is shown;

• · The T.V screen is in black and white and there seems to be a glowing light coming out from the T.V screen. This gives the effect of terror in the audience eyes.
• ·  There is shown to be a little girl touching the T.V screen with a teddy bear on the floor. This suggests that the girl is very venerable and unaware of the situation. The girl touching the T.V screen is shown to be innocent and weak.
• · The poster is in pitch darkness with one image in the centre this shows that the main focus point is the girl and the T.V screen of the poster gives the sense of mystery.

Facts

Film title: Poltergeist (1982)

Tagline: From a dimension beyond the living, a terror to scare you to death

Characters: Craig T.Nelson as Steven Freeling

                      Jo Beth Williams as Diane Freeling

                      Heather O’Rourke as Carol Anne Freeling

                      Dominque Dunn as Dana Freeling

                      Oliver Robins as Robbie Freeling

                      Zelda Rubinstein as Tangina Barrons

                      Beatrice Straight as Dr.Lesh

                      Martain Casella as Marty

                      Richard Lewson as Ryan

                      James Karen as Mr.Teague

Producers: Steven Spielberg

                     Frand Marshall

Editors: Steven Spielberg

               Micheal Kahn

Director: Tobe Hooper

Writer: Steven Spielberg

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/UA Entertainment Group

Released date: 16^th September 1982

Budget: $10,700,000 (estimated)

Grossed: $76,606,280

Open Weekend: $6,896,612

The storyline is that there is that there is an ordinary family living in a normal house, when all of a sudden ghosts start appearing. The ghosts at first look friendly and only move objects for their amusement but then they change and turn out to be horrific as they terrorise the family by controlling trees and dolls. Then the youngest daughter Carol Anne gets kidnapped by them into their world.

The Keywords used in this film are ghosts, television, moving and neighbour.

The equilibrium is that it’s a normal family in a perfectly normal house with a nice neighbourhood. The disequilibrium is that ghosts start to appear and move objects around. They start of friendly them to go extreme lengths through other objects and they kidnap the youngest family remember Carol Anne. The equilibrium is that the family go and get help and they remove the ghosts and get Carol Anne back.

Film 6:

The supernatural genre is making the human in human; by subverting and using make believe. An example of the supernatural is folklore and fairy tales.

One film I will be researching for the supernatural genre idea is Paranormal Activity. This film was released in 2009. It’s a film about ghosts in a person’s home. This is a poster representing the film.

In this poster there is shown;

• A normal house with the furniture in a normal positioning. This suggests what the family are being haunted and give the audience the idea of curiosity.
• In the poster there is shown to be a couple sitting on the bed but they looked shocked due to the couple both looking towards the door and the female is pointing towards the door. This would create a mystery on the audience and will engage them to go and see the film.
• As the women are pointing at the door there is a dark shadow on the door, it is tall and thin. This would encourage the audience to go and watch it as it gives the sense of questioning and this would engage the audience even more.
• The poster image shows us through a bedroom camera and it show the time it was shot. This almost makes the film look real and genuine.

Facts

Film title: Paranormal Activity (2009)

Tagline: Don’t go alone

Characters: Katie Featherston as Katie

                      Micah Sloat as Micah

                      Mark Fredrichs as Dr.Fredrich (psychic)

                      Amber Armstrong as Amber

                      Ashley Palmer as Diane (girl on internet)

Producers: Steven Schneider

                     Jason Blum

Editor, Director and writer: Oren Peli

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Released date: 25^th November 2009

Budget: $15,000 (estimated)

Grossed: $193,355,800

Open weekend: $77,873

The storyline is that a normal couple move into a regular house. They become very disturbed and somehow the ghost became most active on the middle of the night. Katie tells her partner that shes been haunted by ghosts since she was eight years old. Katie then gets a ghost specialist to help them out.

The keyword used in this film is night, house, ladder and entity.

The equilibrium is that a family is move into a normal home. The disequilibrium is that the family are disturbed and Katie has been haunted by ghost since she was eight the ghost starts to get more active in the night. The equilibrium is that they get a friend to help them out with their problem.

There were three paranormal activity films after the first and they were all released recently.

Film 7:

The zombie genre is all about normal humans who get bitten and they convert into flesh eating humans. The zombie genre is a main genre in the horror category however this genre can subvert into comedy, thriller, and science fiction and sometimes romance. George A’ Romero is known as the “godfather the zombie films”. He has contributed to films such as Dawn of the dead, Day of the dead and Night of the dead.

The film I will be researching will be Dawn of the dead. This film was released in 1978. The film is all about zombies and the society they live in. This is a poster advertising the film.

In this poster there is shown;

• The design shows the sun rising but in this case it shows a person rising from the horizon. I gathered that the person is rising from the first dawn which is sunrise. The audience find this amusing is it word play.
• In the horizon there is shown to be a person rising. The person is all white with bits of red on one side of his face and one ear. This suggest that the person is the zombie rising form the dead, this then suggest to the audience the idea of mystery because the red bits on his face could represent blood.
• The person is not showing all their face which signifies his identity is unknown. This gives the audience a frightened but confused feeling on whether he is antagonist of not.
• The person on the horizon has big dark eyes almost suggesting he is a zombie. This gives the audience the idea that they are being watched, which makes them insecure.                                                                               

Facts

Film title: Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Tagline: When there’s no room in hell, the dead will walk on earth.

Characters: David Emge as Stephan

                      Ken Foree as Peter

                      Scott Reiniger as Roger

                      Gaylen Ross as Francine

                      David Crawford as Dr. Foster

                      David Early as Mr. Berman

                      Richard France as scientist

                      Howard Smith as TV commentator

                      Daniel Dietrich as Givens

                      Fred Baker as Commander

                      Jim Buffico as Wooley

                      Rod Stoufer as Young officer on roof

                      Jese Del Gre as old priest

                      Joe Pilato as old priest

                      Tom savini as blades

                      Taso Stavrakis as Sledge

Producers: Richard P. Rubinstein

                     Clawdio Argento

                      Alfredo Cuomo

Director Writer and Editor: George A. Romero

Distributor: United Film Distribution Company

Released on: 29^th June 1980

Budget: $650,000 (estimated)

Grossed: $55,000,000

Open weekend: $900,000

The plot is that from the continuing of Night of the Dead there is a society crisis as people are finding it hard to protect themselves. The government is trying to help but they keep failing. There are shown to be human flesh eating people going around eating normal people. There are a group of characters who are trying to escape and in the end only two people escape by working a helicopter.

The key words I have used are mail, Sequel, shopping mail, flesh eating zombies and eating flesh.

The equilibrium is that normal people all of a sudden noticing that there are people eating other people. The disequilibrium is that more and more people are getting eaten and are turning into zombies. The equilibrium is that left over normal people have escaped from the zombies.

Film 8:

Monster films are another genre in the horror category. Monster films are films which associates the idea that humans and animals don’t get along. The monster genre is mainly to have a monster extremely oversized ort large. The monster idea is to have a fictional character usually found and to create it as the antagonists. The monster is not to have good looking features. The idea of monsters came from myths, folklore and legends such as Medusa.

One film I will be investigating is Jaws. This film was made in the 1975. The film is a monster film from the horror category. This is a poster advertising the film.

In this poster there is shown;

• ·   The poster is shown to have the monster or shark as the centre point, while the shark is showing its sharp teeth. This gives the audience insecurity and fear because this animal does exist.
• ·   The shark is shown to be pointing its body upright under a person. This suggests the shark is alert and waiting for their pray.
• ·   The person is shown to be unaware of the shark and is swimming casually. This suggests that no one is secure at sea and that humanity has no power with animals. This gives the audience shock and it un-comforting because they can relate to it in reality.

Facts

Film title: Jaws (1975)

Tagline: Amity Island has everything. Clear skies. Gentle surface. Warm water. People flocked there every summer. It the perfect feeding ground.

Characters: Roy Scheider

                      Robert Shaw

                      Richard Dreyfuss

                      Lorraine Gray

                      Murray Hamilton

Producers: Richard Zanuck

                     David Brown

Director: Steven Spielberg

Editor: Verna Field

Writer: Peter Bindley

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Released date: 26^th December 1975

Budget: $8,000,000 (estimated)

Grossed: $430,510,134

Open Weekend: $7,061,513

The plot is that one officer finds a died victim after a shark attack and he tries to close the beach down to swimmers. Then several people go out to catch this shark for this big reward money because a month before a son got killed from a mother and she was giving this big reward money to those who find this creature and kill it. Then the people at sea get trapped and the shark starts attacking.

The keywords used in this film are shark, island, great white shark, mayor and beach.

The equilibrium is that the beach is open for holidays and travellers are coming and going. The disequilibrium is that the there is a shark out at sea killing people at sea. The equilibrium is to catch and kill the shark before he carries on killing more and more victims.

There have been a few other sequels after the first jaws film they haven’t been much profit as the first.

Film 9:

J- Horror is a shorter way of saying Japanese horror. Japanese is seen as a very popular horror fiction in the modern century. Japanese horror tends to have conventional elements of horror as well as the thematic elements. Japanese films from past years have been re-made again because of the profits they make. The films that have been remade are, Ring, Grudge etc. The films that were re-made also have had some title changes. Japanese horror tends to focus on the psychological horror. These made include ghosts, poltergeists, possessions, and exorcisms. The common antagonists in the Japanese horror are the yurei. The yore is Japanese ghosts which depend on emotions. These are particular type of ghosts. In Japanese folklore they believe that the yurei is a ghost which if they were killed with violence of all of a sudden then they say on earth until their situation is sorted out. Is a person dies natural or peacefully the ghost will not exist or turn into yurei. The yurei is a female who where’s white clothing. They have long black hair and its left untied which comes from the tradition that Japanese women grow their hair and pin it up and they would release their hair when in funeral.

One film I will be investigating form the genre of Japanese horror is called one miss call. This film was released on 2003/2004. This film connoted the conventions of yurei. This is a poster advertising the film.

In this poster there is shown;

• · A young girl with a shocked face. Her eyes are looking straight and her mouth is a little open. This suggests that the girl is in danger and the girl is in shock because she looks frozen. This gives the audience suspense of what will happen next.
• · The girl is shown to be holding a mobile phone which represents the film’s title and which creates mystery to its audience.
• · As the girl is in shock there is shown that a there is a hand on her shoulder suggesting the girl is in danger. The hand also builds tension as to who the mystery killer is, suggesting this idea creates curiosity.
• · In the background there is shown to be another girl with long black hair upside down. This could suggest one of the scenes in the film or it could be showing the killer.

Facts

Film title: One Missed Call (2003/2004)

Tagline: Death cannot be put on hold

Characters: Kou Shinbaski as Yumi Nakamura

                      Shirichi Tsutsumi as Hiroshi Yamashita

                      Kazue Fukiishi as Natsumi Konishi

                      Anna Nagata as Yoko Okazaki

                      Reniji Ishibashi as Detective

                      Atsushi Ida as Keniji Kawai

                      Kana Ito as Rina Tsuchiya

                      Mariko Tsutsui as Marie Mizunuma

                      Azuda as Ritsuko Yamashita

                      Karen o Shima as Mimiko Mizunuma

                      Yutaka Matsuchige as Ichiro Fujieda

                      Goro Kishitani as Oka

Producers: Naoki Sato

                    Yoichi Arishige

                    Fumio Inove

Director: Takashi Miike

Editor: Yasushi Shimamura

Writer: Yasushi Akimoto

Distributor: Toho

Released date: 17^th January 2004 (Japan)

Budget: Unknown

Grossed: €231,647

Open Weekend: €76,932

The plot is that people are surprisingly receiving voicemail messages from their future selves in a form of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time for their future deaths, listed on the message log. The female protagonist has to save herself and her friends live.

The keywords used in the horror film are death, message, sound, hospital and asthma.

The equilibrium is that a group of friends having fun and going to university. The disequilibrium is that killing people with a voice mail message. The equilibrium is that the protagonist has to try save herself and her friends from getting killed.

There have been three re-makes of One Miss call. There has been a One Miss Call final and a Warner Brothers version of one miss call. There has also been a One Miss Call Japanese Television drama.

Film 10:

The thriller genre is another genre from the horror category. It creates suspense tension and excitement as it is the main elements. The thriller genre is only included to the category because there is shown a lot of graphic content in the film. The thriller genre is mainly about investigation than the other genres such as splatter and slasher. The thriller genre contains more action and adventure.

In the genre of thriller from the category of horror I will be researching on the film called Misery. This film was released on 1990. This is a poster advertising the film.

In this poster there is shown;

• · An isolated house in the middle of the mountains. This suggests that the victim will be trapped there. This also gives the audience the suspense of what’s going to happen.
• · As the house is in the middle no where there is also the word misery all around that little house. The word misery is repeated continuously. This gives the audience that the person or victim is not happy or in so sort of danger.
• · The house is isolated and it’s the time around winter because in the poster the weather is shown as its snowing. This gives the idea that there is no way out of there. The emotion it builds would be mystery and vulnerability.

Facts

Film title: Misery (1990)

Tagline: Paul Sheldon used to write for a living, now he’s writing to stay alive.

Characters: James Caan as Paul Sheldon

                      Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes

                      Richard Farnsworth as Buster

                      Frances Sternhagen as Virginia

                      Lauren Bacall as Marcia Sindell

                      Graham Jarvis as Libby

                      Jerry Potter as Pete (an alias of Clayton Moore)

                      Rob Reiner as Helicopter pilot

                      J. T. Walsh (uncredited) as State Trooper Sherman Douglas

Producers: Rob Reiner
                    Andrew Scheinman
                    Jeffrey Stott
                    Steve Nicolaides

Writer: Stephen King

Editor: Robert Leighton

Director: Rob Reiner

Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Released date: 10^th may 1990

Budget: $20,000,000 (estimated)

Grossed: $61,276,872

Open Weekend: $10,076,834

The plot is that one of the bestselling novelists Paul Sheldon is on his way home after completing his latest book when he crashes his car in the blizzard. Paul is then critically injured but then he is rescued by his number one fan Annie Wikers. She takes Paul back to her house without telling anyone. Annie then started switching when she finds that Paul has killed off the heroine on her favourite novels. She torchers Paul and makes him plead for mercy.

The keywords used in the film are car crash, fan, obsession, nurse and blizzard.

The equilibrium is that a book writer in summing home from another one of his book publishing. The disequilibrium is he meets his favourite fan and she helps him out but then turns obsessive and hurts him for him killing off her heroine from his latest book. The equilibrium is that he has to escape from her hands.