Horror fiction

Horror fiction films are designed and created to bring fear and panic to it’s viewers and get a physiological response. These types of movies are created to depict the more darker sides of life in a form that still entertains its viewers. They are meant to be nothing other than scary. Horror films have been typically “off-limits” to children because of the contents within it. Now, horror films from the early twentieth century have adapted to become suitable for younger children. But how has the…

Not only does the monster well represent the idea of horror and monstrosity, but the film also portrays horror and monstrosity. The film does this not just through the actual creature, but through the societal role it plays on both parents and children. It scares the children because children’s sensitivity towards fear is quite high…

past several hundred years, horror and monster themes have become very popular in every medium available. At any given time it is not uncommon to find three or four horror movies playing at the same theatre. Arguably starting with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, there has been no shortage whatsoever since this explosion of a new genre. This raises the question of why are we so in love with scaring ourselves? What part of the unknown is desirable to the point where horror dominates the movie screen…

“Goosebumps” is a movie that includes science fiction, monster, horror and fantasy content. It also can be classified as a comedy which has conflict of interest, expectation and reality. Most of the people who like science fiction, mystery and fantasy content will enjoy this movie because this film is filled with monsters, zombies and creepy dummies. The special effects are very good as real and the monsters are looking real, so the audience would not feel that the effects are unreal and fake or…

should try it sometimes. This may be an unpopular idea although Stephen King, well established horror fiction writer alludes to it in his article “Why we crave horror movies.” The article written in 1981 is King’s take on why people crave horror movies as well as pointing out that we are all mentally insane it just varies in degrees of insanity. Edgar Allen Poe’s writing, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” is a fiction story in which a man unaccepting of his insanity, kills an elderly man for the simple…

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 media like literature and television, the horror genre has dominantly relied on audience’s emotional and physical reactions. In the book “The Philosophy of Horror, or, Paradoxes of the Heart,” author Noël Carroll recognizes the particularity of horror…

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…

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…

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was a short story horror fiction writer, born in 1890 and died in 1937 (Halpern and Labossiere 512). His unique style of writing, “...follows a rather nontraditional approach to horror, fitting more appropriately into the sub-genre weird fiction” (Hull 10). Lovecraft’s stories feature many strange creatures from the unknown, such as Cthulhu, Hastur the Unspeakable, and Yog Sothoth (Kutrieh 44). These monsters, and the style of horror they were presented in, were a…

In David Mitchell’s novel, Cloud Atlas, we see a series of six stories. As we read these stories we began to see that each of them were connected to each other in one way or another. We began to read deeper into things, like what certain objects in the novel represented, if they had a deeper meaning than just being presented to the reader. Specifically in the very first and last parts of the novel we are introduced to is The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing. In this story we see Mr. Ewing go…