Horror and terror

seek out to strike fear into a player’s heart. Some horror video games claim to be terrifying, but in reality, don’t do much more than play scary music. However, the list below includes only games guaranteed to make you sleep with the lights on. Dead Space “One of the smartest takes on the survival horror genre, Dead Space took the oft-overused theme of zombies and made a really special style of game,” claims Telegraph. IGN believes that the terror of Dead Space comes from the monstrous…

of sweat falls off of a nose and into a world full of terror and evil. Yes, there are good feelings and pleasurable moments of life as well, but fear will never be forgotten; fear can never go away. The moments that people relive in every dream, the image lurking in every dark room, the face that appears every time one closes his or her eyes, that is the type of traumatizing fear that will never disappear. What is so attractive about this horror? Why do we feast on the releases of new monster…

Finding a good horror movie is a lot like shucking oysters in search of a pearl; one must weed through disgusting and disappointing messes until a true treasure is discovered. Unfortunately, Scott Derrickson’s Sinister is more of a mess than it is a pearl. The film follows the life of washed-up horror writer Ellison Oswalt, who moves his family into a home where a grisly murder has taken place. Oswalt believes that writing a novel about the murders will help reboot his career. After discovering…

A Nightmare on Edgehill Road When I first selected The Nightmarys by Dan Poblocki from the horror section in the media center, my immediate reaction was, “Oh great, another tacky story about creepy girls that kill people while they sleep that will scare you even though it’s kind of stupid, have fun going to sleep tonight, Charlie!” I soon, however, realized that my first assumption was wrong; The Nightmarys, although being slightly difficult to follow, is actually a well-written, meaningful book…

Drawing in this target audience, how well does the game stack up to horror films in the industry? In many ways, to say the least. A classic way to tell a story is by drawing ideas from real life legends. An example of this would be Bigfoot, Boogeyman, I Know What You Did Last Summer, among others. The legend in which Until Dawn draws on is that of the Wendigo. The atmosphere created is also very important. An underlying atmosphere which creates a sense of dread is also present in both. Along…

from a evil possessed doll to a super strong momma's boy with a machete, the horror icons of the 70's to the 90's and early 2000's have made a deep bloody impact on the horror world to this day, if you were to ask your parents what scared them the most when they were your age they would most likely say Freddy Kruger or Jason Voorhees or even Michael Myers, and they had every right to be scared of these immortal terrors! These icons have stayed the tests of time for decades and have been rebooted…

contains a handful of emotions that the viewer will be feeling. The genre that can be described as both loved and hated is the horror genre. The first horror movie to ever be created and shown was Le Manoir du Diable, french for the Manor of the Devil written and created by Georges Méliès in the late 1890s. This film forever changed cinematic creations. A new genre was created: horror. If…

mental trauma, and behavioral changes that may even evolve into aggressive or self-dangering behaviors. These effects are prevalent to anyone who watches a horror film, but because children are more impressionable than adults it is much more likely that they will suffer from these side-effects. The insomnia that plagues many watchers of horror movies results from paranoia. One researcher describes it this way, “It all begins with the mind. If you saturate your mind with things you don’t want to…

based, many humans love the feeling of being frightened. Horror films serve one purpose: whether the film is based off of the supernatural, a masked murderer, or even just a serial killer, the emotions that come from frightening movies can be thrilling. The fear that comes along with frightening movies and scary stories is a fictional type of fear. When individuals watch these horrifying movies or read books that are classified as horror, they know they are not in actual danger and there is no…

Juan Antonio Bayona’s El Orfanato (2007) is a Spanish horror film that illustrates the Spanish ghost story while also representing the tragic loss of childhood. Laura returns to the orphanage where she was raised, hoping to re-open it. Instead, her son Simón goes missing seemingly at the hands of ghosts from her past. The disappearance and subsequent death of her son, as well as her reunion with her ghostly childhood friends symbolizes significant aspects of Spain’s traumatic history. This can…