Gallows

Even though this movie was very successful financially as it was made for $100,000 and grossed $38.2 million at the box office, I still see this movie as a flop. Again, the plot is simple enough for the movie to have turned out great, but I just didn't see any effort into fleshing out characters for creating tension.The trailer for The Gallows drove me to watch this movie and subsequently regret every single minute of it. How do I count the ways? There was not much plot to speak of except for the most basic of skeleton-scripts written by Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing, who also directed the film. I can't really begrudge them for how much I didn't enjoy this movie, I'm sure there are lots of people who did, but I just can't understand why New…

If one of the prisoners tried to escape we had to stand up waiting at roll call place until he is retrieved. For their punishment they would hang them. After the hanging all the prisoners have to march in front of the gallows to look at the hanged prisoner, as a warning. The evening roll call is over. We ran in order to receive our “dinner” Therefor we would get some soup and a piece of bread. If we spilled some food or if our bread would fall on the ground we would have to eat it or the guards…

In “Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman”, Harlan Ellison tells the story of a man who brings chaos in a controlling system. Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out-” focuses on a boy that lost his hand while working and later died. Both texts show the reality of our lives and how it is expected to conform by possessing similar and contrasting use of symbolism and tone. The poem centers around a little boy that dies after he cuts his hand while cutting wood with a saw outside in the yard. His family…

Does anyone remember the last time we saw a found-footage film that was actually good? Seriously can you remember? The Gallows reminds us that even though Hollywood loves making found footage movies they seem to be against making them good. In this horror film we have a gang of cliché annoying teenagers Reese Houser, Pfeifer Ross, Ryan Shoos and Cassidy Spliker. The actors seemed to enjoy keeping their real names in the film and Ryan is the only one to keep both his first and last name, so in…

Remember when you were a kid or teen and you snuck off and did something that, you know you had no business doing. Whether it was sneaking off on a date or drinking alcohol. We have all done something that would have caught us in trouble if the folks found out. And dark humour plays on things that are normally frown abound in society. The words Dark Humour popped up around the late nineteen-sixties to the early seventies. But the genre has been around for a lot longer under different names…

nutrition, Dr. Jeffery T. Emeritus Professor of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University, Dr. Jack Coulehan. Lastly, the final member of the Trinity in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Associate Professor in Medical Education-Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Stony Brook University, Dr. Catherine Belling. The authors hone in on gallows humor in relation to the physician-patient encounter. They illustrate that doctors face a myriad of physically and emotionally taxing situations in their…

Treegap is the village where Tuck Everlasting takes place. It has a wood, a road, a cottage, a jailhouse and gallows. The road that goes through Treegap is long and windy. The author uses personification to describe how it twists and turns. The road wasn’t really much of a road, it is more like a rock path, but in the epilogue of the book it gets covered in tarmac. The cottage has a touch-me-not appearance that makes it look very proud of itself. It was a square house with perfectly cut grass…

The trial begun with me already standing on the gallows bound, with the noose already tied around my neck, If I was found to be guilty my execution would be swift with one pull of a lever. The charge put against me was heresy, this was a reasonable charge for in the past many months I had talked against and distributed the information distributed by our government to her people. This started nearly a month ago, when I and some of my colleagues uncovered files that revealed that our government…

The day began to die, and the men started the long walk to their death. Geb led the two men to the gallows on the mountains overlooking Sentinel Point, unaware if he was dreaming or awake. As the chief executioner to Lord McRoss it was his duty to carry out the sentences passed by Lord McRoss, however cruel they might seem. However, his mind had been playing tricks on him lately; but he was quite sure he was awake right now. Both the guards were young, probably having just completed their…

problems in this world such as drinking and smoking that can make people do things they normally won't do. These addictions can significantly modify someone’s mindset. In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Black Cat,” the narrator has a drinking problem that quickly changes him from the inside out. In the story “The Black Cat” Poe uses tone, inner thinking, and metaphors to create a dark mood in the story. In the story “The Black Cat” the author Poe changes his tone to cold and bitter to change…