How to Prepare for Medical School

Medical school is one of the most demanding courses of study you can select. With weekly exams, mounds of diseases and conditions to memorize and a need to overcome some pretty deeply rooted aversions to blood and gore, there is a lot to do to prepare. Follow these steps to get yourself ready for medical school.

Instructions (Difficulty: Challenging)

Step1
Hone your studying skills. In many cases, medical students are given more material to study than there are hours in the day. This means that you not only need to learn how to maximize your time but also how to study properly. Get used to juggling classes, breaking up your day into study blocks and making condensed notes from your reading. Read more …

X-Files: I Want to Believe ; Review

Chris Carter’s writing style really hasn’t changed all that much. He writes for television, and his movies definitely reflect that experience: low budget, and stick to the formula. In summer science fiction blockbusters, the main antagonists are usually huge insurmountable objects of force, such as civilization threatening objects with lots of energy to blow up cities and monuments (more, please), overly ambitious oceans, zombie armies and the like, whereas in Carter’s stories, the bad forces are much more subtle, easily covered up, and as visual experiences, less memorable. Carter always wrote the first and last episodes of an X-Files season, so when watching this movie, that is definitely the impression you will get–you will feel you are watching either the close or an opening of a new season. But honestly, as long as you go into the theater knowing this, you more than likely won’t mind at all. This one is the equivalent of 2 new episodes, so enjoy. Read more …

Notte Horror, Pictures Horror Mixed

Early horror writings
Horrific situations are found in some of the earliest recorded tales. Many myths and legends feature scenarios and archetypes used by later horror writers. Tales of demons and vampires in ancient and more recent folklore were often quite horrific.

Modern horror fiction found its roots in the gothic novels[citation needed] that exploded into popularity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, typified by Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) as a prototype, and refined by Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). A variation on the Gothic formula that remains one of the most enduring and imitated horror works is Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein (1818, revised version 1831). Frankenstein has also been considered science fiction, a philosophical novel or a ‘novel of purpose’ by some literary historians. At the same time, John William Polidori devised the kind of vampire story that has since become familiar with his short story The Vampyre. This kind of supernatural character, combining evil with sinister charm, has since been much used and elaborated by horror writers.

The first published American horror story was Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Later gothic horror descendants included seminal late 19th century works such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. Early horror works used mood and subtlety to deliver an eerie and otherworldly flavor, but usually eschewed extensive explicit violence. Read more …

Can Entities Hurt?

Anthony North: Psychic entities can come in many forms, varying from incubi, to ghosts, to aliens, and even the ‘hallucinations’ conjured up by a magical adept.

Yet the most virulent tend to appear during poltergeist infestations. Occasionally such entities go further than simply being seen. There are attested cases of such entities actually hurting people, even leaving marks on the body. Does this suggest the entities are real, or can other elements explain the phenomenon? To me, such entities are basically hallucinations.:

The mind constantly interprets the data received from the senses, but should that data be interrupted, such as through tiredness, altered states, natural illusion, etc, a strange phenomenon occurs. Read more …

Quarantine (REC Remake) October 14, 2008; Postal, Synopsis and Trailer

SYNOPSIS

Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew’s videotape.

Release Date: October 10, 2008
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Writer: John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle
Starring: Columbus Short Jay Hernandez Jennifer Carpenter Steve Harris Jonathan Schaech Rade Serbedzija Greg Germann Bernard White Zulay Haneo Marin Hinkle Denis O’Hare Stacy Chbosky
Studio: Sony Screen Gems

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By: MrDisgusting

Shown earlier today at the San Diego Comic Con was Sony Screen Gems’ red-band trailer for Quarantine, which arrives in theaters October 10th. Directed by John Erick Dowdle from a script by John and his brother Drew, Jennifer Carpenter stars as a reporter who becomes “quarantined” in an apartment complex with a bunch of residents. Read more …

How to Make Fake Gore (Difficulty: Moderate)

Blood and guts make a haunted-house attraction or horror-film project memorable–the gorier, the better. While you can buy artificial blood products, you can also create your own bloody mess using items found in your kitchen.

Instructions (Difficulty: Moderate)

Things You’ll Need:

* Corn syrup
* Water
* Flour
* Red food coloring
* Yellow food coloring
* Blue food coloring
* Cocoa powder
* Grenadine syrup
* Cherries Read more …

Horror Movie Gifs: Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) (18 Gifs)

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.

The format uses a palette of up to 256 distinct colors from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame. The color limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for more simple images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color. Read more …