The Mist [draft]

This work has been done by Eva Pérez and Marta H.

We're going to talk about a movie called "The Mist" written by Stephen King:

This movie plot is about a paranormal phenomenon which happened in a small village in the US. It starts with a hard storm, which has a high material damage and also brings a strange fog. The film main character lives in the town limits and he, his son and a neighbour go to a store leaving Dave's wife alone at home (Dave is the main character). At the supermarket they'll be trapped by this unnatural fog or "mist" that conceals otherworldly monsters. There, they and the rest of the people will try to survive and get out from there, but it won't be easy because of the monsters. Staying there won't be easy either because there's a woman who's crazy that, as time as the people were there listening her, they'll will become crazy too. When people are frightened they do things that if they weren't under pressure and thinking about it they'll never do, and this movie's trying to show us that.

This "mist" was the product of a experimental experience in the military forces called "the arrowhead proyect". At the end of the film Dave, his son and two frinds could went away from the store in a car, the main caracter and his friends went to Dave's house but his wife was alredy death. They heard strange noises at the car so they belived that the monsters were after them and they haven't any way of scape. Dave had a gun but only with three bullets, so one of them will die painfully by monsters. The main caracter killed his son and friends and when he get out from the car discoverd that the noises weren't monsters, it was the military forces.

The Last House On The Left

The film begins with a girl that goes to one house in the mountain with her parents. She hasn’t been there since she was a child because the lake next to the house was where her brother died. The second day in the morning the girl went to her friend´s shop. In the shop they met a boy who told them to go with him to his hotel to smoke a cigarette.

Suddenly three thieves entered the bedroom (they were the boy’s friends) and abducted the two girls and took them to their car to drive to the forest.

When they were in the car they had an accident and thanks to this accident one girl could escape through the forest but one of the thieves shot her.

After that, the thieves found a house but there were 2 people, these people were the girl’s parents that they had killed one hour ago. One of the thieves was hurt in the arm and the father of the girl helped him because he was a doctor, and the father didn´t know who the injured man was.

Meanwhile the other thieves saw a photo in the house. In the photo was the girl that they had just killed and he decided to kill the parents too, but the girl wasn´t dead and so she could go to the house and tell her parent who these people were and the parents killed all of them.

Why is this film so scary?

For us, it´s scary because that situation could have happened in our lives because it was based on a real event..

The Orphan

This movie is about a family that adopts a young orphan who is called Esther. Esther who aparently looks kind and friendly. The family is formed by Mother and Father and a son and a daughter who is deaf and dumb. At the beginning Esther makes best friend with the girl, they learn to talk with the hands. As time passes through, the mother realises that people around her are getting accidentally hurt and she has a suspicion that it’s Esther’s fault! Finally she starts to investigate on Esther and calls the orphanage and discovers she isn’t the cute little girl she appears to be, she is a woman! The orphan makes a ruin of the family making the kids kill themselves and try to have sex with the father who doesn’t want to, so she makes the mother think that he is abusing her!

Will Esther be capable of making more disasters with the family or will the mother be able to make things change?

The creepiest scene is when the orphan breaks her own arm to make the mother think that it’s her step-father who attacked her.

There is another creepiest scene when she takes off her costume and tries to kill her step-father. In that scene you can observe her real face that is like a little devil and is very spooky !

Let Me In

The film is about a vampire girl that needs blood, and her babysitter kills people to get the blood for her.

She moves to a new house and there she meets a boy, and they make friends with each other. The boy lives with his mother, and he suffers school harassment .

The vampire girl and the boy go out together and finally he discovers the real identity of his girlfriend.
The vampire’s babysitter tries to kill a boy, but when the boy’s friends are going to discover him, he throws acid on his face and it becomes deformed. Later, the man is sent to a hospital and the girl goes to visit him and he kindly lets her absorbs his blood because he is going to die.

The girl goes out of the city, but she returns when the boy ‘s classmates try to kill him, and she saves him by eating them up.

OPINIONS

· One of the creepiest scenes is when the babysitter, with his head in a black bag, appears behind a driver and he attacks and kills him.

· The other creepiest scene is when the girl is sleeping in a bathtub, and a policeman enters the bathroom looking for her. When he get out of the bathroom, the girl jumps over him and bites him to death.

Andrea Gil, Alba Benito, Vicente Mas, Amparo Sáez.

The Blair Witch Project

Some students go to a forest in search of data on the legend of the Blair Witch. They carry a video camera and record everything that is happening. In the first place they interview ordinary people to determine the location where the tragedy they are investigating took place.

Then, they go to the forest to look for clues and they get lost. They try to return to their car but they can’t find it and they are forced to sleep in a tent in the forest. Then, they begin to hear noises of children but don't see anything.

The next morning they found three piles of small stones around his tent. They try to return to the car in the morning but they cannot. Then, they see pictures of voodoo in the woods, and hear more sounds of children.

They don't get out of the woods and they have to sleep there again. The next day one of them disappears, the others try to look for him but they cannot find him and they hear his screaming at night. The next day, they found remains of him. At night, they listened to him again and finally they found the abandoned house where he was. And when they arrived they were caught while the camera was still recording.

Quim, Paula, Aléx and Nacho

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In class, brainstorm, talk about "scariest movies", to see if we can produce a list of, say, 10 to 20.

See if we can agree on a rough ranking for them.

At home get information on the Internet, and use a collaborative process writing approach to produce a plot summary plus what makes them really, really scary

Go through various drafts, getting the other learners to commit on each others' work, and saving as Word documents

Post the final version on a blog

Students will read the finished products, and will use the "comments" feature to "vote" which they now think are most scary.

Time sitting facing the PC screen...? Around 40 minutes in all.

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