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Type equation here. Protagonist:Themes:Backgrounds: Plots and situations:Icons:Stock Characters: Dead Silence Every town has its own ghost story, and a local folktale around Ravens Fair is about a ventriloquist named Mary Shaw. After she went mad in the 1940s, she was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople who in the ultimate act of revenge, cut out her tongue and then killed her. They buried her along with her "children," a handmade collection of vaudeville dolls, and assumed they had silenced her forever. However, Ravens Fair has been plagued by mysterious deaths around them after Mary Shaws collection has returned from their graves and have come to seek revenge on people that killed her and their families. Far from the pall of their cursed hometown, newlyweds Jamie and Lisa Ashen thought they had established a fresh start, until Jamie's wife is grotesquely killed in their apartment. Jamie returns to Ravens Fair for the funeral, intent on unraveling the mystery of Lisa's death. Once reunited with his ill father, Edward, and his father's new young bride, Ella, Jamie must dig into the town's bloody past to find out who killed his wife and why. All the while, he is doggedly pursued by a detective who doesn't believe a word he says. As he uncovers the legend of Mary Shaw, he will unlock the story of her curse and the truth behind the threat from a rhyme in his childhood: if you see Mary Shaw and scream, she'll take your tongue. And the last thing you will hear before you die...is your own voice speaking back to you. Key words from IMDb ventriloquist ghost death rocking chair detective shovel ghost story funeral revenge dummy`` grave curse widower murder death stare rose death of expectant mother death of pregnant woman Family tuxedo fire whistling kettle falling into water swimming underwater pump action shotgun A small town digging up a grave coughing up blood

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A look at previously made horror films and identifying the relationships between them.

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Page 1: Horror film research

Type equation here.Protagonist:Themes:Backgrounds: Plots and situations:Icons:Stock Characters:

Dead Silence

Every town has its own ghost story, and a local folktale around Ravens Fair is about a ventriloquist

named Mary Shaw. After she went mad in the 1940s, she was accused of kidnapping a young boy who

yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by

townspeople who in the ultimate act of revenge, cut out her tongue and then killed her. They buried

her along with her "children," a handmade collection of vaudeville dolls, and assumed they had

silenced her forever. However, Ravens Fair has been plagued by mysterious deaths around them after

Mary Shaws collection has returned from their graves and have come to seek revenge on people that

killed her and their families. Far from the pall of their cursed hometown, newlyweds Jamie and Lisa

Ashen thought they had established a fresh start, until Jamie's wife is grotesquely killed in their

apartment. Jamie returns to Ravens Fair for the funeral, intent on unraveling the mystery of Lisa's

death. Once reunited with his ill father, Edward, and his father's new young bride, Ella, Jamie must dig

into the town's bloody past to find out who killed his wife and why. All the while, he is doggedly

pursued by a detective who doesn't believe a word he says. As he uncovers the legend of Mary Shaw,

he will unlock the story of her curse and the truth behind the threat from a rhyme in his childhood: if

you see Mary Shaw and scream, she'll take your tongue. And the last thing you will hear before you

die...is your own voice speaking back to you.

Key words from IMDb

ventriloquist ghost

death rocking chair

detective shovel

ghost story funeral

revenge dummy``

grave curse

widower murder

death stare rose

death of expectant mother death of pregnant woman

Family tuxedo

fire whistling kettle

falling into water swimming underwater

pump action shotgun A small town

digging up a grave coughing up blood

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I Saw The Devil

Protagonist Themes

Backgrounds Plots and situations

Icons Stock Characters

Jang Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) is a dangerous psychopath who kills for human meat. He

has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and

his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a

long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police

chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiancé Soo-hyun (Lee

Byung-hun), a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises

himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer,

even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and

inhumane killer.

Key Words from IMDb

secret agent psychopath

murder kidnapping

revenge hit on the head with a rock

bandaged hand burned with a cigarette

death of sister

police captain greenhouse

stabbed with scissors knocked out

severed leg punched in the face

flashback taxi

cannibalism masked man

hit with a chair envelope full of money

cut hand forced to strip

stolen car body in a trunk

stabbed in the neck stabbed in the throat

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A Nightmare On Elm Street

Protagonist Themes Backgrounds Plots and situations Icons Stock Characters

In the early 1980's, a psychopath named Freddy Krueger - known as the Springwood

Slasher - murdered several children with a glove outfitted with straight razor blades

attached to the fingers. When a foolish decision by a judge sets him free, Krueger is burned

alive in the boiler room where he worked by an angry mob of the parents whose children he

terrorized & murdered. Years after his death, the children whose parents were responsible

for Krueger's death - including Nancy Thompson, daughter of the police officer who arrested

Krueger - are experiencing terrifying nightmares involving a burned man wearing a glove

with razor blades on the fingers. The ghost of Freddy Krueger is haunting their dreams, and

when Nancy's best friend Tina dies in her sleep violently during a dream confrontation with

Krueger, Nancy realizes she must find a way to stop the evil psychopath's reign of terror -

or never sleep again...

dreams nightmare

freddy krueger elm street

victim psychopath

death 1980s

boiler room burned alive

serial killer 15 year old

slasher scar tissue

teen movie supernatural

springwood ohio serial child killer

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Protagonist

Stock Characters

Icons: Objects, backgrounds, stars

Plots and stock situations

Themes

The Purge Anarchy- plot summary:

A couple are driving home when their car breaks down just as the Purge commences. Meanwhile, a

police sergeant goes out into the streets to get revenge on the man who killed his son, and a mother

and daughter run from their home after assailants destroy it. The five people meet up as they

attempt to survive the night in Los Angeles.

Plot keywords:

revenge carjacking

car crash chainsaw

car accident laptop

suspense photograph

personal vendetta race against time

hand grenade pirate broadcasting

militant explosion

bag over head limousine

parking garage booby trap

ambush bus

mercenary cell phone

arms dealer body count

homeless man homelessness

deception money

class differences media coverage

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Protagonist Themes

Backgrounds Plots and situations

Icons Stock Characters

The Woman In Black

A young lawyer, struggling with work after the death of his wife, is

sent to a remote village to settle the estate of a deceased eccentric

woman who owns an English manor. The village residents want him to

leave as they are trying to conceal a deadly secret. But he refuses,

and soon discovers that the house of his client is haunted by the

vengeful ghost of a woman dressed in black.

village house

marsh ghost

lawyer solicitor

inn death

thunderstorm lost

woman in black estate

train revenge

children secret

wizard belief in heaven

accident crucifix

trance coach driver

basement hanged by the neck

blood vomiting reunited family

break door in decaying body