Horror Story Essay

Every year, Halloween is different when it comes to the costumes and outfits that are considered "in" and "out." This year, zombies - or "walkers," as they're known on the AMC series "The Walking Dead" - are all the rage, while Elsa from the computer-generated animated feature film "Frozen" is yesterday's news. But one thing that every Halloween has in common is candy - lots and lots of candy. And the only way kids can get their hands on their precious loot is by going from door to door. That…

When I went to the YWCA afterschool program in my old school, my best friend Simone went with me every single day. We did fun activities there like play outside, watch scary movies, and doing our homework. One day at the YWCA I’ve seen a really scary movie but I forgot what it is called so I’ll just explain it. So it’s about a family and the mom whose name is Charlotte she has a new born baby. Then for some reason Bloody-Mary kept on bothering her family. One day when Charlotte was putting…

Silence Drip, drip, drip tears fall into my lap "I don't want to be here, I just don't" I mutter to myself. Nobody knows were I am what am I going to do? Aliens are trying to take over the world and they finally got me. My mamma she doesn't know were I am. Were are they taking me? I keep thinking. Finally the ships doors opened these blue egg looking creatures grab me by the arm and start dragging me down a green carpet. I look up and see a large creature just like the blue aliens but bigger,…

I was in school the seventh grade class just doing the normal things you know,like science , math, reading about fictional stories . So people said that Santa and aliens other things were real.So I told them they are not real. “You people just making fools of yourself,Nick said. We went to our wierd class that all the nerds will come with facts about things like science, after that I felt like I was a lonely planet like pluto. I felt lonely because there was a lot of kids that were kind…

around the world seek that feeling that creepy scary feeling that can even be found in literature! In many pieces of literature you can see humans change form houses in objects transform and setting transform. Transformations is often used in scary stories to elicit fear. In Gothic literature you really see a lot of human transformation for example in “the fall of the House of Usher” many humans…

Fatal Attraction Personality Disorder Fatal Attraction the movie is based off of the personality disorder known as fatal attraction syndrome. The definition of fatal Attraction is defined as an attraction that can and sometimes and does lead to death. The death may be of the one who is attracted. The targets of the attraction also are in danger of dying from murder when the full, deadly attraction disease is at work. Sometimes both people die, as all too often happens in a murder-suicide…

Movie Review: Monsters, Inc. It was so fun getting to re-watch one of my favorite movies of all times, while looking deeper into the plot to find ethically wrong issues. I never really noticed these issues before and it honestly left me feeling completely different about the movie once I was done. Monsters, Inc. is the biggest “scare factory” in the city Monstrapolis. At this factory, they generate power for the city through the scares of children. The biggest and scariest monsters in town go…

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” (Franklin D. Roosevelt). There are many things in this world that people fear, some fears are big and some fears are small. There is a wide variety of the things people fear, heights, people, and getting hurt. Why do people fear heights? people fear heights because maybe they were high up, and they fell off, or maybe they have never been high up and they are afraid to go up on something high. One kind of height that someone may be afraid of…

The information provided by the articles annotated below all relate to the concept that the recent increase of zombies in media (movies, tv shows, and games) all demonstrate the fear and repulsion people have towards death as well as how their usage have also intersected with other pervasive anxieties of people towards disease, globalization, and other phenomena. Each of the different sources helped with providing some evidence in regards to how zombies have affected society through media and…

arguments and points on if the horror genre is appropriate or inappropriate for the middle school age. Many people have different reasons on if students should be exposed to horror or not and I think they should not. I think so because being exposed to horror at a somewhat young age can have bad effects like aggression and violence, sleep disturbances, and even extreme things like symbolic catharsis. There could be lifelong effects involved with being exposed to horror which is why I think it is…