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The Art of Adapting Creepypastas (Featuring Dark Fire Productions and The Critical Android)

Download at Archive.org The Critical Android and I speak with Jacob Rohrbach, creator of The Creepy Pasta Episodes. Our original intent was to talk about the legalities of adapting creepypastas. We ended up talking more about the overall process of adaptation from the perspective of an independent filmmaker. Dark Fire Productions: https://www.youtube.com/user/DarkFireProd13 The Critical Android: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSObshFJ0f1V0PfRCyawBdw Works Discussed:  The Creepy Pasta Episodes Weird Al Yancovic Coolieo Slenderman Ghostbusters Jaws Amityville Horror Prom Night 2 Hellraiser: Inferno Doctor Strange Die Hard Simon Says Bird Box - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/arts/television/bird-box-netflix-explosion.html Beware the Slenderman Marble Hornets Frankenstein Candle Cove Channel Zero Tribe 12 Everyman Hybrid Ben Drowned Escape From Tomorrow Laughing Jack Snakes on a Plane FireFly Street Fighter 2 Cthulhu Abstractions The World End...

Color Theory in Horror Movies | Film Analysis

Download at Archive.org How does color theory apply to horror movies? Works Discussed: ► The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)  ► O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) ► The Matrix (1999) ► Children of Men (2006)  ► Vertigo (1958)  ► Rush (2013) ► The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) ► The Phantom of the Opera (1925)  ► The Tingler (1959) ► Sin City (2005) ► The Sixth Sense (1999)  ► Blindness (2008) ► The Evil Dead (1981) ► A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) ► The Sick Child, 1885 by Edvard Munch ► The Machinist (2004)  ► The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ► It Stains the Sands Red (2016)  ► The Hills Have Eyes (1977) ► The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984) ► The Hills Have Eyes (2006) ► The Hills Have Eyes II (2007)  ► Crimson Peak (2015) ► The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1952) ► mother! (2017) ► It Follows (2014) ► Don't Look Now (1973)  ► The Shining (1980) ► Suspiria (1977)...

The True Story of Compliance | Everyday Horror

Download at Archive.org We explore the real events that inspired the 2012 movie Compliance.  Works and studies discussed: ► Milgram experiment (1961) ► Hofling hospital experiment (1966) ► Stanford prison experiment (1971) ► The mindlessness of Ostensibly Thoughtful Action (1978) ► Compliance (2012) ► Don't Hang Up (2016) LIKE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE!! ----------------------------------------­­--- Merchandise ► https://www.redbubble.com/people/afterdarkanalys/ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/AfterDarkAnalysis Ko-fi ► https://ko-fi.com/afterdarkanalysis Social Media Links Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/pg/AfterDarkAnalysis Twitter ► https://twitter.com/AfterDarkAnalys instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/after_dark_analysis/ Google+ ► https://plus.google.com/u/1/102635285505884780395 Imgur ► https://imgur.com/user/bloodgutssc/posts Pinterest ► https://www.pinterest.com/afterdarkanalysis/ Tumblr ► https://www.tumb...

Well To Hell | Urban Legend Analysis

Download at Archive.org Did scientist drill a hole down to hell and hear the screams of the damned? Works Discussed: ► Baron Blood (1972) ► Nine Miles Down (2009) LIKE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE!! ----------------------------------------­­--- Merchandise ► https://www.redbubble.com/people/afterdarkanalys/ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/AfterDarkAnalysis Ko-fi ► https://ko-fi.com/afterdarkanalysis Social Media Links Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/pg/AfterDarkAnalysis Twitter ► https://twitter.com/AfterDarkAnalys instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/after_dark_analysis/ Google+ ► https://plus.google.com/u/1/102635285505884780395 Imgur ► https://imgur.com/user/bloodgutssc/posts Pinterest ► https://www.pinterest.com/afterdarkanalysis/ Tumblr ► https://www.tumblr.com/blog/afterdarkanalysisyt ----------------------------------------­­--- Sources: ► December 1984 article from Scientific American "The World's Deepest Well....

Why is This a Thing? STDs in Horror Movies

Download at Archive.org What do horror movies have to say about STDs and STIs and how they are spread? Films Discussed: ► Shivers (1975) ► Flesh-Eating Mothers (1988) ► Kids (1995) ► Crash (1996) ► Ginger Snaps (2000) ► Cabin Fever (2002) ► Dawn of the Dead (2004) ► Contracted (2013) ► It Follows (2014) ► Contracted Phase II (2015) ► Night of Something Strange (2016) ► She Kills (2016) LIKE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE!! ----------------------------------------­­--- Merchandise ► https://www.redbubble.com/people/afterdarkanalys/ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/AfterDarkAnalysis Ko-fi ► https://ko-fi.com/afterdarkanalysis Social Media Links Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/pg/AfterDarkAnalysis Twitter ► https://twitter.com/AfterDarkAnalys instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/after_dark_analysis/ Google+ ► https://plus.google.com/u/1/102635285505884780395 Imgur ► https://imgur.com/user/bloodgutssc/posts Pinterest ► https://www....

Share or Die: The Evolution of Chain Letters | Urban Legend Analysis

Download at Archive.org We explore chain letters and why they continue to endure. Why does your aunt Sue keep sending them? Who even makes them in the first place?  Films discussed:  ► Campfire Tales (1997) ► Chain Letter (2010)  ► Smiley (2012) LIKE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE!! ----------------------------------------­­--- Merchandise ► https://www.redbubble.com/people/afterdarkanalys/ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/AfterDarkAnalysis Ko-fi ► https://ko-fi.com/afterdarkanalysis Social Media Links Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/pg/AfterDarkAnalysis Twitter ► https://twitter.com/AfterDarkAnalys instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/after_dark_analysis/ Google+ ► https://plus.google.com/u/1/102635285505884780395 Imgur ► https://imgur.com/user/bloodgutssc/posts Pinterest ► https://www.pinterest.com/afterdarkanalysis/ Tumblr ► https://www.tumblr.com/blog/afterdarkanalysisyt --------------------------------------...

The Blair Witch Project and Modern Marketing

Download at Archive.org How did The Blair Witch legend get so big? How deep was its impact on modern marketing?  Films Discussed: Slacker (1990) Clerks (1994) Curse of the Blair Witch (1999) Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) The Blair Witch Project (1999) Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000) 2012 (2009) Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort (2014)  Blair Witch (2016) Sources: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41191/1/BLAIR_WITCH_Unpublished_Teaching_Case_Study_Jon_Silver_%281999%29.pdf https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/27281/what-was-the-first-website-to-be-created-specifically-to-promote-a-movie   https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/gyxxg3/they-wished-i-was-dead-how-the-blair-witch-project-still-haunts-its-cast https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/snapchat-360-video-ad-sony-dont-breathe-1201839237/ https://www.thedrum.com/news/2016/09/23/how-the-original-blair-witch-project-ushered-new-era-viral-movie-marketing ...