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• HORROR

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PRESENTED BY
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Keith Isbell
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Matthew Higgins
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Elizabeth Cook
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and John Guadiz
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"He who fights with monsters should look to it
that he himself does not become a monster. When
you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also
gazes into you. Friedrich Nietzche
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Elements of Gameplay

• Music
• Camera
• Pace of Game
• Environment
• Scares vs. Atmosphere (i.e. RE vs. SH)

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Themes

• Existentialism
• Dark, foreboding
• Rituals/religion
• Death
• Fear

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Gender

• Strong women roles
• Heather and Claudia (SH3)
• Jill Valentine (RE, RE3)
• Claire Redfield (RE2, RECV)
• Gender equality
• Antiheroes everyday people, rarely brave,
  courageous or admirable

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Links to Film

• Resident Evil series
• Night of the Living Dead
• Dawn of the Dead
• Day of the Dead
• Silent Hill series
• Jacobs Ladder
• Kuon, Fatal Frame series, Siren
• Ju-on (The Grudge)
• Ringu (The Ring)
• Obscure
• John Hughes high school teen movie stereotypes
  (stock characters / archetypes)
• Loner, Nerd, Jock, Stoner, Cheerleader, etc.
• Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, The
  Breakfast Club
• The Faculty

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History of Horror

• Video Games
• Uninvited (NES)
• Sweet Home (NES)
• Alone in the Dark (PC)
• Doom (PC)
• Resident Evil (PS)
• Silent Hill (PS)

• Legends/mythology
• Vampires
• Demons
• Ghosts
• Zombies/Undead
• Film
• Nosferatu (1922)
• Literature
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Mary Shelleys Frankenstein
• Bram Stokers Dracula

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Art, Poetry Music

• H.R. Giger (1940-)
• Horror/surrealist painter sculptor
• Designer of Alien for the movies
• CD cover artist, connections with artists such
  as KoRn, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Gwar
• Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
• Surrealist painter
• The Beat movement
• Hippie Movement

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Graphic Novels

• Hellboy
• Batman
• Lobo
• Spawn
• Silent Hill
• The Crow
• The Punisher

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Gothic Culture

• Common Symbols
• Skull
• Occult symbols / Pentacle
• Blood
• What is it?
• Unique music, art, and literature
• Black clothing, makeup, unusual hair, etc.
• Medieval, Victorian, Edwardian history
• Common Stereotypes
• Satanists (Marilyn Manson)
• Depressed
• Violent
• Suicidal
• Artistic

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Game Examples

• Obscure
• Siren
• Kuon
• Manhunt
• The Suffering
• Doom series
• Fatal Frame series
• Silent Hill series
• Resident Evil series

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Summary

• Important Elements
• Music
• Art
• Film
• Culture
• Emotion Fear

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THE END
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• Romero, George A. Night of the Living Dead.
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• OTHER
• Beyonce. Crazy In Love. Dangerously in Love.
  2003.
• Konami. Float up from dream. Silent Hill 3
  Soundtrack. 2003.

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