Movie Review and Horror Theory

Write a 200-word movie review of Barking Dogs Never Bite, in which you examine specific examples from the movie that apply to the horror theories discussed in class. Please contact me if you need access to the film on Netflix.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Yoon-ju is an unemployed grad student who hopes to become a professor. He lives with his pregnant wife in an apartment. Mostly the middle class people live in this apartment building. He is so stress because he doesn’t any job. He has no stable income, and his wife is only earning member in his family. He needs ten thousand dollars to bribe the dean. Yoon-ju disturbs by the dogs’ bark and wants to kill them. Also the place he lives is a noisy mess. One day he kidnaps a little white dog to kill. On the first attempt he feels really bad, and then keeps the dog in a wardrobe in the basement. Carroll said, “Horror films stimulate and excite positive emotions like curiosity and fascination.” I find something that makes me curious to know about the movie. When the security guard says about “Boiler Kim”, I thought really there is something still alive to kill them. And the sound affects make it real. Also when Yoon-ju hides in the wardrobe, after that it makes us curious when the security guard steps forward with his knife. All of these scenes make questions to audience that what will happen in future? Then we as audience more focus on movie until it finish.

2 comments:

  1. I think Mitchun spends too much time describing the events in a movie. Ironically, he fails to convey the whole story or the theme of the story. He abruptly starts talking about his experiences, which was interesting to read, but it would have been nicer to somehow connect these two parts of the review. I just think this movie review lacks coherency.

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  2. I like how Mithun connects the movie with Carroll's theory which was ignored by me while watching it. However, I also agree with Liana, he fails to describe the dark comedy part which are the unfair and injustice of power. But the way he interprets Carroll's theory is pretty good, I did not notice that before.

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