Horror fiction

Zombie Project The very first day was going great. My friends and I were on our way home from school. My friends name our Riley and Jaylin. On our way home to work on a project we saw this strange thing coming toward us. We thought it was another kid trying to pull a prank on us. We were dead, I mean Dead wrong. Like the thing was limping and saying weird things. We tried to ignore it, but it keep following us. Riley (trying to be brave) started to head toward the weird thing. He came back…

What is it about suspense that makes us all so jumpy at the sound of a creaking door or at the sight of an unidentified figure? Is it the darkness or is it the unknown? Suspense is simply a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. In the newly released film Don’t Breathe, director Fede Alvarez does a terrifyingly terrific job at placing his audience at the edge of their seats and holding them there. Don’t Breathe isn’t just a motion picture that’ll have you…

Cult horror films are set apart from traditional horror films for a number of reasons. Unlike traditional horror films which propel the story in a specific direction and can provide a general hunch as to how the plot as a whole will develop, cult horror films are notorious for having little to no civilized plot development. Cult horror films are equipped to take the story in ridiculous directions, and generate a specific audience at midnight showings that consists predominantly of film experts…

theater room that is hosting the newest horror movie, sitting patiently waiting for that moment that is approaching fast, but why is it that this feeling always seems to occur when watching a horror movie? Many wonder the same thing, this is why Stephen King has answered a lot of many wondered questions. Three great claims that are brought up in his essay “Why We Crave Horror” mentioning the reasons why people dare to enter the theater room to watch the horror film: one, being to have fun;…

I, like my fellow companions am an artist, an innovator, a person that one of the plebeians would identify as a psychopath. People believe that I am one to be feared, one to be caged, one to be killed. I don’t understand why they feel this way, but they fear us all the same. I believe that this is mostly because of the poor depiction of what a psychopath is on television. Actually people like myself are present everywhere. If you look left we are there, if you look right we are there, and if you…

Real or Not? Alejandro Amenabar’s thrilling movie The Others, is a haunted mystery, it would be similar to the movie Shutter Island, the shock of the waiting game. The evidence of a Christian mother protecting her children. The suspense of fifty doors that will not open or lock, rippling staircases, graves of ghosts, blood clotting specters with a little subtle romance. But the question is would you say is “This haunting enough for you! Something…Wicked!” It’s intriguing to watch the twist and…

Have you ever seen the Nightmare Before Christmas is it a Halloween movie or Christmas movie. I think it is a Halloween movie. This essay talks about it being a Halloween movie because most of the characters are Halloween, the setting is in Halloween town, and they ruin Christmas. First I’m going to talk about most of the characters being Halloween like. The main character is Jack which is a skeleton which are scary and Christmas isn’t scary. Also the society are monsters, and trick or treaters.…

Fear causes people to do bizarre things. In literature, fear can be used to make the reader feel sympathetic towards the protagonist. In Edgar Alan Poe’s book, The Pit and the Pendulum, Poe uses fear to captivate the reader into wanting to know what happens next. In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, fear is used in two ways, overcoming fear and letting fear ruin your life. There is always some sort of fear in literature, even if it isn't obvious. You can never escape fear, you can only overcome it…

In “Why we crave horror movies”, Stephen King gives several points on why it is people like watching horror movies. In the first part of the essay he says, “I think that we all are mentally ill; those of us outside of the asylums only hide it better – and maybe not all that much better after all.” (378) In this statement, King is simply explaining that in everyone there is a little crazy. Some of us can maintain a clearer head then others. When people go and pay money to see horror movies, it…

In many ways, individuals often struggle against their fears. The time I experienced this was when I used to ride steers a couple summers ago. It was a hot July day and my dad and I had just finished helping my Rodeo queen sister get ready for carrying flags to start off the rodeo. After when we walked over to the stands to get ready for their riding, I was gearing up to ride one of those beasts they call steers, thinking I was going to get killed. After the national anthem, the rodeo began. I…