Halloween

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…

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…

In the first year of our relationship, my boyfriend, Jason, and I started having a few disagreements about decision making and communication. We would often watch movies together, eat dinner, or do something that I had planned. I was making all the decisions. Even if Jason had planned something for us to I would veto it for my own ideas. This lead to a little bit of animosity surrounding how we spent time together. A typical conversation we had would progress as follows: Me: Let’s watch a movie…

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…

The human brain is certainly the most magnificent organ; it gives us the capacity to imagine things that haven’t happened and make us be conscious of things that might happen in the near future while watching a movie or series. Simply by making a switch in how the shot is taken or the sounds that can be heard in the background. This is what makes scary films so successful, the usage of certain techniques that stimulates our brain to interpret sounds for actions we can’t see and makes us feel…

M. Night Shyamalan’s suspense thriller The Sixth Sense (1999) scrutinizes the unusual and unseen relations between the living and the deceased whilst exploring the unknown world of the afterlife. Cole Sear (9 years old) struggles with understanding that he is a medium and finds closure and help within Malcom Crowe- a child psychologist who is unaware of his own death. The Sixth Sense was the first of many thriller films that Shayamalan wrote and directed. M. Nigh Shayamalan uses a variety of…

In Loving Memory of Philip K. Dick SOMA is a sci-fi Horror experience developed by Frictional Games. They are the developers responsible for creating Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the Penumbra series. I don’t typically play games that are in the Horror genre, and this is the first game I’ve played by this particular developer. Now sci-fi games, that’s completely different. I can deal with a little bit of horror in that case. At first, I thought I was stepping into a space station. It was a very…