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In eleven pages this paper the significance of haunting in these films and how it is developed by each thematically and aesthetically. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.
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memories and their impact upon the human psyche. The most memorable cinema involves situations that evoke haunting memories in viewers through various visual techniques. For most individuals, there
is nothing more frightening than death, and according to communications professor and renowned film historian Bernard Dick, the making of films is tantamount to a resurrection. Professor Dick contends,
"Movie-making is necromancy; it is literally bringing the dead to life" (qtd. in Wolfreys 209). Two significant examples of how filmmakers thematically and aesthetically employ this philosophy are Austrian-born
Hollywood director Billy Wilders over-the-top classic 1950 film Sunset Boulevard and French filmmakers Chris Markers stark 1962 short film that is comprised solely of still photographs, La Jetee. The
former is, from start to finish, everything that outwardly defines the quintessential haunted house or ghost story as described by critic and Time magazine film reviewer Richard Corliss, who observed,
"Sunset Boulevard is the definitive Hollywood horror movie. Practically everything...is ghoulish. The film is narrated by a corpse that is waiting to be fished out of a swimming pool.
Most of it takes place in an old dark house that opens its doors only to the walking dead. The first time our doomed hero...enters the house, he is
mistaken for an undertaker... Outside the house is the swimming pool, at first filled only with rats, and the ghost of a tennis court. The only musical sound in
the house is that of the wind, wheezing through the broken pipes of a huge old organ" (qtd. in Wolfreys 210). A review of La Jetee acknowledges its creative debt
as the inspiration for The Terminator series and Terry Gilliams disturbing film 12 Monkeys, but adds, "Most serious critics acknowledge that Markers film is vastly superior to any of its
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