Horror Story Essay

Most of color harmonies consist of combination of two or more colours within a specific relationship on the color wheel where one of them is dominant. For example in horror films if we use orange and teal, blue will be the dominant because we want to show more of the cold side and because we want it to look scary. Sometimes a red colour is shown to represent blood, while a blue represents an effect that makes the audience calm. To achieve orange and teal orange is pushed to highlights and…

series, Silent Hill 2, is widely considered to be the best horror video game of all time, and among the best video games ever created (GamesRadar, 21). From historic horrific imagery to its use in media like literature and television, the horror genre has dominantly relied on audience’s emotional and physical reactions. In the book “The Philosophy of Horror, or, Paradoxes of the Heart,” author Noël Carroll recognizes the particularity of horror…

starting to shift to science fiction and horror films. Many fans of the superhero movies look up to the heroes in the films and want to be just like them. Depending on the gender the viewer their hero most likely the same. There have not been many female heroes in the past films but have becoming a popular theme in the newer films, like Mad Max and Star Wars VII. Surprisingly there has not been as much research done on female roles in the science fiction horror films. This made researching…

When I was little I always hated horror movies and I also hated the show Goosebumps especially “the night of the living dummy” 1, 2, and 3. Today I will be talking about an Author whose books made it on the screen. Stephen King is an Author who made history over the past 40 years. Stephen King was born on September 21 1947 in Portland Maine. Before he started writing when he was a Teacher when he wrote the book ‘Carrie’. King married Author Tabitha Spruce in 1970. So basically King’s life is…

Horror is one of the most multifaceted genres in the entertainment industry. There are many defining characteristics that describe horror and there are people who may have a question on whether a movie is truly considered a horror. Alfred Hitchcock is a director who captivates, and confuses the audience with his movies. One of the more confusing stories in the Hitchcock universe is “The Birds”. This is because the monster does not appear for the first twenty to thirty minutes of the movie, and…

Juan Carlos Medina’s debut fantastic horror movie combines two narratives - a contemporary thriller plot with flashbacks to the Spanish Civil War and running through to the 60’s. Intriguing script and the way the story unravels leave no chances to predict what will happen next on the screen. The opening sequence starts with a flashback to rural Catalonia in 1930s featuring a small girl Ines (Bruna Montoto and Liah O’Prey) playing…

Hands clenched tight, clammy with sweat, eyes glued on the screen in disbelief as I begin to watch the red haired curly headed twin be eaten by a masked man in the uncanny visceral horror movie Dark Ride directed by Craig Singer set in New Jersey. This movie is about five friends, Cathy, Steve, Bill, Jim, Elizabeth and Jen, who while on a road trip take a slight detour to check out the infamous Dark Ride. A ride that has been closed for fourteen years became the blood dripping playground for the…

It’s no secret that the horror genre has often been criticized for the over-sexualization of female characters. For the last 30 years, film critics and the general public alike have been criticized the ways in which the female characters are depicted in horror films as either the stereotypical virgin or the nymphomaniac sex kitten. The virgin girl notably lives, while the deviant sex kitten ultimately suffers a brutal, yet seemingly deserved death. This strange dichotomy has not so subtle…

comedy to drama, but horror genre has made a comeback on television and continues to be popular. The term "horror" to describe as a genre would not be used until after Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931. Cuddon (1984) defined horror in The Penguin Book of Horror Stories as “a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing” (p. 11). With many popular horror shows on…

popcorn always seems to be a popular choice. Deciding to have a movie night is easy trying to decide which type of movie is the hard part. Movies are categorized by Genre’s a few being horror, thriller, and romance. Anytime I get a chance to sit down and watch a movie I typically choose horror. The Genre horror comes with plenty of sub categories for the viewer to have a better selection of what type of movie they want to watch. My top three favorite subcategories are slasher, mystery, and…