ProfessorGiordano: Welcome Special Cinema Studies Horror Class

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Welcome Special Cinema Studies Horror Class

Welcome to the classroom blog website in which we will be having various readings and postings throughout the semester. Please feel free to familiarize yourself with this site and please post a comment to any article that you find to be interesting. To start us off on the right foot I am counting down the top ten horror films that I believe to be the best. Clocking in at number ten for me is the original A Nightmare On Elm Street.

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UnknownSeptember 2, 2013 at 10:27 AM
One of the scariest movies because unlike other horror films, he got you when you fell asleep, can't run away from that!
The kill scene with johnny depp getting his insides pulled out in the middle of the bed, is one of the most iconic horror movie kills.
Only bad part of this film, is the fact that Wes Craven kept getting a chance to make movies after this. And he made a ton of junk movies but never hit gold he had with this movie
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Professor GiordanoSeptember 9, 2013 at 6:10 PM
He made Scream!
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