Me & My Movies

Country of Origin: JapanDirector: Hideo NakataWriter: Hiroshi TakahashiRelease Date: August 18th 2000 Budget: $1,200,000Runtime: 96 minutes

Reiko Asakawa is researching into a 'Cursed Video' interviewing teenagers about it. When her niece Tomoko dies of 'sudden heart failure' with an unnaturally horrified expression on her face, Reiko investigates. She finds out that some of Tomoko's friends, who had been on a holiday with her the week before, had died on exactly the same night at the exact same time in the exact same way.

Country of Origin: JapanDirector: Tom HollandWriter: Don ManciniRelease Date: June 2nd 1989 Budget: $9,000,000Runtime: 87 minutes

When Charles Lee Ray needs to get quick escape from cop, Mike Norris, he takes his soul and buries it into playful, seemingly good guy doll Chucky. Little does he know a little boy by the name of Andy Barclay will be the new owner of him soon-to-come. Charles confides in Andy while he commits numerous murders. Once the adults catch up to Andy's story as truth, it's too late.

Country of Origin: United KingdomDirector: Alfred HitchcockWriter: Joseph StefanoRelease Date: August 20th 1960 Budget: $806,947Runtime: 109 minutes

Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother

Country of Origin: USADirector: Wes CravenWriter: Wes CravenRelease Date: November 16th 1984Budget: $1,800,000Runtime: 91 minutes

On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson and a group of her friends including Tina Gray, Rod Lane and Glen Lantz are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Freddy Krueger. Nancy must think quickly, as Freddy tries to pick off his victims one by one. When he has you in your sleep, who is there to save you?

Country of Origin: USADirector: Tom SixWriter: Tom SixRelease Date: October 9th 2011Budget: (Unknown)Runtime: 96 minutes

Martin is a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his mother in a bleak housing project. To escape his dreary existence, Martin loses himself in the fantasy world of the first Human Centipede movie, fetishizing the meticulous surgical skills of the gifted Dr. Heiter, whose knowledge of the human gastrointestinal system inspires Martin to attempt the unthinkable.

Reception Theory: Reception Theory is basically how a film is perceived. A different meaning is created by every different viewer as they watch and process the movie. In short, reception theory places the viewer in context, taking into account all of the various factors that might influence how she or he will read and create meaning from the text.

Star Theory: Star theory, is basically the theory that the bigger a star is, the more

successful the movie would be. In horror, for example, Robert Englund and Anthony Hopkins who, respectively play Freddy

Krueger and Anthony Hopkins. Both actors have played horror characters in massive

series’ of movies. A bigger well known actor will attract a bigger and wider audience, some actors are famous for being horror

victims and killers.