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Ju-On (The Grudge) – 2002 – Dir. By Takashi Shimizu The Grudge is a remake of the 1986 film of the same name which would then be remade again in 2004 for a more western audience by the same director. It follows the story of various characters that fall prey to the grudge in the film. However unlike our more modern films in which the audience is introduced and is expected to empathize with a character that is introduced early on as the protagonist the Japanese version bucks that trend and instead goes to make the Grudge/monster itself the main character of the film. This in effect makes it so that there are a multitude of characters in the film that would be later revealed to be the victims (as opposed to a titular character in the American remake being the focus of the film) This in a sense gives the film a shroud of mystery as the viewer must think as to why the people are being killed and what circumstances makes it so that they are the victims. The approach to the horror

Interview with a vampire by Anne Rice “Every Moment must be known then savored” – Louis These words ring true for almost the entirety of the book. Throughout much of the story we are introduced to two viewpoints on the. However, during the beginning of the book/interview with the vampire named Louis it is quickly shown that this trope of vampire is one that goes against the common modern/post-modern types of vampires that we as an audience witness today. Like the title suggests this book is structured as an interview, with a vampire, from a 3 rd person point of view starting with a nameless character who is eager to know the secrets of the vampire. Right from the start before the interviewer is able to set the tone and time of the interview Louis is adamant in answering his questions and says that he will answer them but on his own terms saying that he wants to “tell all of his story form the beginning” He starts this simply enough by shattering the conventional vampire