Horror fiction

The Finale “Who are you?” this is the simplest question in this world, which everyone can answer it; meanwhile, it is the hardest question that it does not have a correct answer. In other words, it is not that difficult to identify someone, but you would may a hard time to describe him or her. You can use any subject to call someone, if match, but you cannot go further that you try to describe someone you never met at all. However, time can help you to overcome it, which is the same as you…

The tension builds up with fear on what’s going to happen next. Horror movies have become so realistic; it puts characters into real life situations. Don’t worry, you’re safe in your own environment because after all it is just a movie, right? Just experience horror movies vicariously and witness other people get tormented and killed. What is the deal with horror? It is disgusting and gruesome, so why do people crave it? Horror films have grown and developed over the past decades. Our society…

October, 2008. The film was also promoted, and effectively distributed in another form. The Horror Punk band Misfits’ song “Shining” was also based on the film with the chorus singing “Carol Anne, Carol Anne” which is the name of the main character in the film. This promoted the film as when people listened to the song they would associate it with the film which further made it recognisable. As the band is a Horror Punk, the song they released is targeting the same audience because they have the…

Introduction Look around you, does where you are look uniformly ominous. Are you being chased by an unusually powerful or intelligent being. Well congratulations! You are in a horror film! It may not sound that great because it is not. You are probably going to die, but if you read this guide you might not. So let’s get started! The most important thing I could tell anyone in your situation right now is “don’t be stupid”. It has been said in so many television shows and movies. “Dont go in there…

Fear is incapacitating, it holds you back and holds you down. As you grow older, you see more of the world. You see it thought the news, people and books. As you grow older and see more, the more you know what to fear. When you come out of childhood you learn that the monsters you feared under the bed may not be there, but you learn that they lurk in the streets and the halls of your life. As time passes you discover not only to fear monsters but also emotion, failure, change and loss. How do…

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…

2. Drugstore Cowboy I mention in one of my pages that I appreciate truth in film. This film is a shining example of that. This film explores the lives of people addicted to serious drugs. It opens with the ending of the story. Bob is seen in the back of an ambulance, then we go to the rest of the story through flashback, showing us how he got to this point. Bob and his wife Diane like to do drugs such as morphine and cocaine. To keep their drugs coming in they end up stealing prescription…

Horror Movies: What Causes Our Cravings? In “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” Stephen King deliberates on the motives behind people’s craving for horror movies. Some of the reasons he analyzes are simple and obvious, some have a deeper psychological meaning. King writes that we watch horror movies in order to experience the same level of fun as riding a roller coaster. He also suggests that we watch horror movies to experience the set of emotions to which we were conditioned to deem as wrong. King…

producer of Paranormal Activity and Sinister. If a person were familiar with examples of scary movies, they would know that Paranormal Activity and Sinister are both horror films. Mentioning those two films causes a person to feel the same scared, emotional response watching The Purge as if they were about to watch the other two horror films. Another way the text is used to create an emotional response is by including the phrase, “survive the night,” in dark lettering beneath the main title of…

exactly that in all his movies. Never did he once give his audience a break. Even if the movie is at a calm scene, he always makes something crazy happen to scare the audience right back in their seats. Alfred Hitchcock was able to create a new kind of horror film that was able to get into the audience 's minds and make them experience unforgettable suspense and fear; this is seen and mimicked in many films, that future directors would make after his iconic and legendary movies. Many of his…