Horror and terror

Is it thoughts of death? Or of a monster in your closet? I am sure it is not a monkey’s paw. Many readers agree that The Monkey’s Paw is a horror-filled piece that makes your mind spin with the dark side of humanity. I, along with others, believe that The Monkey’s Paw is a sorrow story filled with casual and tragic events that eliminate the sense of horror. Most of us will readily agree that it is a well written short story. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of…

It Follows combines coming of age with horror in an unsettling, almost claustrophobic tone. The film explores the inevitability of death as well as sex and adolescence using a creature they call "it". This film is about a teenager named Jay who has been told that she is the recipient of a curse that spreads through sexual intercourse. Only those who are infected can see the being that is following them. The opening image of It Follows captures the tense tone of the film perfectly; starting with…

portray the theme horror by using contextual visual and literary conventions. Both A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), by Khaled Hosseini, and Stranger Things (2016), by Matt and Ross Duffer, have the common theme of Horror. However, they employ different techniques in portraying this theme of horror. Horror themed texts create a sense of suspense and fear in the audience by utilizing visual techniques and descriptive language in visual and written texts respectively. This atmosphere of horror is…

When people imagine monsters, they think of mythical creatures, the fantasy of an old wise tale. As a matter of fact, some people believe in the life of mythical creatures. The monsters in Beowulf are described as demons, and represent horror. But maybe there are other than just mythical creatures in our world, that may even have the same representation as the monsters in Beowulf. While not physically destroying a memorial place like Grendel does to the Heorot Hall, but brainwashing a nation and…

It is a fascinating phenomenon that many people are fond of horror movies. To ascertain the underlying mechanism, Stephen King, the leading role in the field of modern horror fiction, indited this article “why we crave horror movies?” He analyzes with artful inditing skills from psychological perspective the possible reasons driving people to optically canvass horror movies. Some of his conceptions are very persuasive; however, it is hard to consummately concur with him on the points he made in…

Horror is a film genre designed to obtain a negative emotional reaction from viewers such as fear, panic and fright while captivating and entertaining us at the same. The conventions of horror films are an agreed set of standards enshrined within the cinematography, characters, mise-en-Scene, sound and location of the film to create a sense of fear and vulnerability for the audience to experience. I.e.: High and low, angle shots, dark locations, exaggerated diegetic sound to increase tension,…

determination rather than brute force. Which it absolutely isn't, which while initially disappointing Final Girl turned out to be worth every minute of its 84 minute run time. What it turn out to be was a well executed dark thriller with a splash of horror overtones. I say splash because there is a distinct muting of dread and revulsion, which are still there. OK, maybe not the revulsion. Where Final Girl truly shines is the visuals and the characterization. Final Girl opens with a man named…

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…

hauntings is very strong, the idea of a spirit lingering, cursed in this world, is evident in the common epitaph RIP, or Rest in Peace. The idea of ghosts and haunted houses can be found in many books and movies. One in particular, The Amityville Horror, a book by Jay Anson, and later made into a movie, is a particularly frightening story because it is reported to be true. The story I chose to read for this week’s assignment is, Letter to Sura, by Pliny the Younger. The letter is a request…

when the horror film genre was undergoing distinct changes. As Ernest Mathijs notes in a Flow forum post on the ritual of Halloween horror viewing, monster films and other classic horror were being replaced at the end of the 1970s with “stories about the ‘horror within’, the evil amidst the community.” Some predecessors of Halloween, such as Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976) and Charles B. Pierce’s The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) had begun this tradition of community based horror (or horror…