Edgewood High School, El Corral, 1987, Page 19

Description:	i%ft. «Too Scared To0 \ne^Cj^^Sdffi%,bcream ts««^>^2>?M«><**&-The clock flashes 9:25 p.m. as you walkup to buy a ticket for the movie thatstarts in five minutes. Then after gettingthe appropriate refreshments you slowly and causiously make your way downthe aisle to your seat. Then as your stomach begins to churn with a forbodinganticipation the movie starts, and whatmovie is that Well of course its the newhorror movie thats guaranteed to scareyou to death.It seems that audiences love to bescared. Every day thousands of peoplewatch horror movies whether its on cable, videocassette or at the theater.Huge audiences make horror moviesone of the biggest box offices draws.But why do people love to scare themselves? A lot of the attraction of horrormovies comes from the return of a previous killer; such as Michael in Halloween, Jason in Friday the 13th, and Freddie in Nightmare on Elm Street. Apersons in luck if their favorite horrormovie hits it big because if there was akiller who was taken care of guestion-ably in the end, it is possible youll seehim return for another movie. There isalmost always a sign at the end of a movie that leaves a person to wander if therewill be another, such as the light comingon in the model house in Nightmare onElm Street 3, which by the way is theschools second most favorite movie ofthe year.Horror movies have been around fora long time. However, they have drastically changed. Dracula movies, aresome of the oldest horror films. It wouldalso seem that Dracula movies startedthe idea of using the save menace overand over. On the other hand, that is oneway that horror films have changed.Dracula movies were independant ofeach other, with different looking vampires, and different methods of killing orhurting the vampire, while the serials oftoday are meant to follow one anotherso they are some what dependant onthe one before.Effects, however, are the biggest difference between old horror movies andnew ones. If a person who watches todays horror movies watched an oldone, most likely that person would bedisappointed. It wouldnt be exciting orscary enough. This is most probably because of all the new effects that moviegoers are used to seeing, such as someone turning into a werewolf in front ofour very eyes or Freddie popping outfrom someones insides. Its necessarythen to use these new technologies tocreate effects that keep audiences onthe edge of their seats.As long as audiences feel the need tohave their hair stand on end and theiradrenalen flow the movie industry willcontinue to feel the flow of box officecash. So heres to todays horror movieswhich leave the audience too scared toscream.•«qo\Tst>ofc«°V*b>iytep;<&<3t«>>^<«op. „A Pass to the WorldA vacation is a big part of a persons rememberance of aparticular year. A person might often be confronted with adate and have to start trying to think back to what happenedthat year. They might come up with the answer Oh thats theyear I went to Florida. Many students go to Florida so thatwould be a common answer. Why is Florida such a commonanswer? Well maybe other foreign places are out of a studentsgrasp. So lets eliminate all boundaries and give the studentstotal power to choose. Therefore we will pose this guestion.If you could go anywhere for a weekend where would you go?Mike Stierwalt—HawaiiWhere Are TheyNowOne day in class a few classmates sat down and started totalk about things in their past. Then as we kept asking eachother Do you remember this, we started to wonder whathappened to all these people and things. Where are theynow?Jon Lane—AlcopocoJoanna Sexton—BahamasMichelle Teague—TahatiAmy Deckard—DenverAmy Bohall—ParisKelly Ellett—New OrleansChris Porter — NewYorkDawn Anderson —FranceMelissa Macek—LondonKatie McRae—VirginIslandsLeah Taylor—CaliforniaBell BottomsHula HoopsSlinkysShaun CassidyVillage PeopleBatman and RobinFamily AffairBrady BunchFriendship Pinsthe^th^uCHiPsCaptain KangarooMr. MagooValley TalkDiscoRollerskatesClogsScooby-DooSpace Dust— fry0tee <%v, %It %to<4St^af3ft\cr/.nl%»<ftoyr%M£!;ce>Ml»Amms-m% ybJi^: ^(f/^s ~?\. WjJ/^e;y+&&$%• 3Z*»4^NS2&1 C\ tf}e 1
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