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Trevor Hammack
@tjh · 4:50

The Swell Horror Movie Marathon

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Welcome, everyone, to the swell horror movie marathon. It's almost October. It's time, right? It's time. Every October, it is time to turn off all the lights, find a scary movie, watch it, get scared to death, have horrible dreams. Everything wonderful about horror movies. It's that time of year and we're going to bring the movie marathon right here to Swell. And we invite you to participate. I'll be choosing a movie

Join us for the Swell horror movie marathon!

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Taylor J
@Taylor · 0:52
I feel like doing something similar. Well really, I just like talking about movies and whenever I watch a movie, I tend to post about it and the most recent one that I saw is Barbarian. I don't know if you've seen it yet. It is wonderful. I'll probably post a swell about it over this weekend. I hope to hear from you soon. Looking forward to your next entry in here as well
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Trevor Hammack
@tjh · 1:37

Movie Poster Interpretation

Okay, to everyone who's participating in us. US. US. Swell. Horror movie marathon. First assignment I know you're like, wait a minute. I didn't sign up for a class. Well, you did. Okay, here's your first assignment. Since our first movie is Candy Man From, I want you to look at the movie poster. I don't want you to see if you have any interpretation of what it's possibly trying to say. You have the I okay
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Trevor Hammack
@tjh · 2:43

Opening Scene

But right there from the movie poster, a B really the opening because you've got kind of a credit sequence. Once the credit sequence is over, boom, it's bees. And then once it shows the city, again, there's bees again, there's something with the bees. So that's what we have to work on. Right now, we are analyzing the opening scene of the Candy Man. Feel free to participate. Feel free to join in
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Trevor Hammack
@tjh · 2:17

Myth and Urban Legend

Really what we're doing is we're taking the horror of reality and we're transferring it over into a mythical horror, a mythical evil, some kind of a myth that personifies that pain and suffering. And we do so maybe even a subconscious way. Is that what horror movies do? We see all of the horror around us, but somehow we create these horror films? Is that where we can take the horror of reality and put it into some kind of fictional horror and that separates us from it
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Trevor Hammack
@tjh · 5:00

Slavery and Interpretation

I'll just at least throw it out there. Now, if you look at the concept of Candyman, candy man really is the ghost of slavery. He was the son of a slave. He ultimately suffers for his race and pregnating a white woman. He ultimately is tortured and killed. So KennyMan really represents the ghost of slavery, and the bees really represent the pain, the suffering, the evil inflicted upon the slave. In a sense, Candy Man, he's the ghost of slavery
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Heather Reynolds
@HeatherR · 2:11

The bee.

So that's interesting because is there's a lot of stuff between now and the 90s that I could be interested in watching. So thank you for peaking my interest in that and I will be sure to watch it and give you my thoughts
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Heather Reynolds
@HeatherR · 2:56

Finally Watched

It's been a long time since I've probably engaged in a horror film. There were parts of the movie that were scary. There were parts of the movie that were just flat out creepy, so definitely had some fear in it. The story itself was interesting. As far as who the actual killer was, here's the thing about this movie
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