Horror fiction

‘How do the features of a restricted narrative build suspense for the audience in Psychological Thriller films?’ I will be analysing the narrative structure of Psychological Thrillers, as well as the ideologies that distinguish thriller films from suspense films; by completing this research, I will gain an understanding of how texts are constructed in this genre to be effective at producing suspense throughout the narrative. The research I will be conducting will be referencing two films…

Thrillers, fantasy, and horror genres offer its audience a glimpse into the dark unknown where monster and violence thrive. Why do audiences love to be scared? Can those monsters be stand ins for other real life monsters that we seek to fight against? Two movies which use monsters and violence to capture their audience and spread awareness of Spain’s historical past in connection to these topics are Tesis by Alejandro Amenábar and Pan’s Labyrinth by Gullermo del Toro. Tesis appears on the…

screen-play in order to deliver a specific message to the specific audience group that I targeted. I combined conventions from the horror genre in order to emphasize my message about the vulnerability of children to crimes and the insecurities that we as adults provide for the children’s safety. My main genre would be considered as a bedtime story and a combination of the horror genre which in concept does not go along together, but was successful in orienting my main message towards the…

We all know what a horror movie or story looks or feels like and sometimes scares the living soul out of us. The suspense and the strategies that these writer create are really fluently interesting, but the question is how do they use these strategies for our own story. These two pieces of literature, How Do Horror Writers Create Suspense? by Percy D’Aco and including the short story August Heat W. F. Harvey, will tell and show the strategies that are useful in writing a horror story, in which…

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…

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…

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…

Shadow is Horror At Its Finest Under the Shadow is an Iranian low-budget horror movie from first-time writer/director Babak Anvari. It is about Shideh (Narges Rashidi) and her young daughter Dorsa (Avin Manshadi) who are haunted by an evil force during the 1980s in Tehran, Iran. It is similar in many ways to the 2014 Australian horror movie The Babadook. In fact, it is almost shockingly similar. But does that negate Under the Shadow’s right to exist? In short, no. It is no secret that horror…

What do laser beams and Transylvania have in common? What happens when mad scientists meet groupies? The classic cult production, The Rocky Horror Show, brings together elements of glam rock and Horror B-Movies. This winter, the University of Colorado Theatre Department brought the classic science fiction and campy humor to the University Theatre stage. Directed by Hadley Kamminga-Peck with musical direction by David Nehlsthe, the musical captured the essence of Richard O’Brien’s 1973 musical.…

I pondered, weak and weary…” Sounds spooky, right? This isn’t your ordinary horror film. It’s actually a poem, written by none other than Edgar Allan Poe. I know what you’re thinking; nothing is scary about a poet. Well, then you’ve never read an Edgar Allan Poe piece. You may be thinking that a writer from the 1800’s is not for you, but here is why you’re wrong: 1. Poe’s writing can be scarier than your favorite horror films today. His tales and poems start at scary and go to just straight…