Halloween II

“In my restless dreams, I see that town…Silent Hill.” As one of the first monologues in Silent Hill 2 from the deceased character Mary Sunderland, the quote is important in foreshadowing its horrific and complex narrative. As one the most popular and critically-acclaimed games in the Silent Hill 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…

If viewers thought that “Cache” and “There Will Be Blood” were slow movies, Daft Punk’s Electroma will surprise audiences. It will leave some fans in awe, while having others bored out of their minds. Daft Punk’s Electroma is a slow pace movie, but it is anything from boring. Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, the two founders of the electronic band Daft Punk, wrote and directed the spectacular Electroma. Daft Punk has been known to get out of their comfort zone to try and make…

Monsters in Society The concept of monsters, villains and the thrill of being terrified has been around for a very long time, but why? Society loves bad guys, because there’s so many things we are drawn to about them. To take it even farther, should we make movies about monsters? Does it encourage violent behavior or quench our thirst for violence? The world of terror, monsters and evil is one society can’t live without, the elements of fear and power, mystery and violence. All of these…

Mercy, directed by Peter Cornwell and written by Stephen King, is like an open book. It has potential and great music that intensifies the thrill as the scenes pass in the life of George B and his mystical grandmother. This is not like the average horror movie, blood and guts, but a horror movie that is categorized by its thrill. It has an everlasting thrill that will have one grasping to a pillow from the beginning to the end; however, the movie flies by so fast due to the amount of information…

Ulrich Seidl’s new documentary, “In the Basement”, is mordantly funny, creepily outrageous, and boldly raw. The film gathers a set of suburban Austrian people, who expose themselves by allowing us to peak on what’s going on in their basements. Clearly, the whole is weaker than the sum of the parts, however, my voyeuristic side was awaken by the intimate little secrets it keeps unveiling, even if a couple of unnecessary scenes are there only with the purpose of shocking the viewers. The idea and…

In today's world wiccans and other Neopagans have Samhain and it is the biggest Sabbat that they celebrate. Samhain is also known to many as Halloween, Samhain is a time to remember your ancestors and is when their spirits to come to you. Samhain is a time when the veil between worlds are thin and the other world meaning the dead can pass through such as your ancestors,before this is just a stop for them before they head of to the summerlands.As the day comes family extra chairs we put in place…

With only previews and reviews, publication for the movie It hit through the roofs. All over social media, fans waited with enthusiasm for the premier; and once it came out, many were pleased but not in the way they were expecting. The creative story behind It is that every twenty-seven years the clown, Pennywise, makes an appearance in the town to abduct children; so, this is basically the background of the story to set up the plot, yet it is not the attention grabber throughout the movie.…

The arguments in this article are presented clearly, and they follow a logical organization. Kord uses ample evidence to show how horror film are a payback for people’s failure towards feeling responsible for social, economic, political, and ecological horrors that they themselves inflict on other people, and the world around them. This offers a unique way to analyze the audience of horror films, and understand how horror film elicit guilt by dividing alignment from allegiance or, visual…

The rush… the thrill… the excitement… the relief, many people go through those types of things when going and watching a horror movie. The adrenaline rush you get starts pumping through every part of your body. That has an effect on our emotions in the human condition we have this positive feeling after watching it. In the Stephen King’s essay, he claims that we to watch horror movies for the pursuit of our emotions. Not to mention, we also go to watch horror movies for the fun of it. King…

While listening to Serial, I enjoy the fact that it lets you observe an event from both sides, without being biased. I like how it flips back and forth between guilty and innocent, keeping you on your toes. Just like everything, there are no black or white, just shades of gray. Sarah Koenig constantly gives you points that support each side with each new episode and it keeps me wanting to listen to the next episode. Hearing this mystery has awakened my desire to read mysteries such as the…