Horror film

describes “uncanny” as a term that brings a feeling of “dread and creeping horror” (Freud 1) to a person. Freud further explains in his description that the “uncanny” can be undefinable at times. Throughout the rest of his essay, Freud tries to define and describe what the “uncanny” is. The journal articles written by Robin Lydenberg, Howard F. Stein, and Roswitha Mueller help to expand Sigmund Freud’s interpretation…

imagined it crawling out of our neighbor’s dark-water irrigation pond, staggering into our backyard, scratching a hole in my bedroom wall with its barbed-wire claws and snatching me while I slept. Of course, I had an excuse; I had never seen a horror film before. Even Old Yeller terrified me when the lovable golden retriever was mercy-killed after his encounter with a rabid wolf. OK, so I frightened easily when I was young. I had no excuse today. 60-year-old men are not supposed…

The Babadook is a truly scary horror movie from 2014 directed by Jennifer Kent. The “Babadook” is a scary boogie man that a single mother just cannot seem to shake. At one point in the film the mother, Amelia played by Essie Davis, goes to the police station because she believes someone is stalking her. She, however tells the police at the station that she burned the book and they say they cannot do anything about it because she burned the evidence. She turns and sees clothing arranged in a way…

Socialization The following socialization agents have contributed to my social development: family, nature, nurture, gender socialization, school, peer groups, and mass media. Family has contributed a lot to who I am today. Family has shown me how to behave in public and how to behave at home. It always has shaped my personality. I grew up in a home where my mother didn’t really take care of me and my siblings. I had to mature much quicker than other children and learn how to take care of…

as a horror film by Stanley Kubrick in 1980. The summary of the film is of a family that heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Kubrick takes the study called phenomenology, which is the development of human consciousness and self-awareness as a preface to or a part of philosophy to the big-screen. The Shining camera motion mimics this film…

try to scramble away only to be met with the eyes of your ultimate doom. …Sherlock Holmes? It’s more likely than you think. Whether one loves them for their creepiness, hates them for their cliches, or laughs at them for their silliness, tropes in horror movies are not uncommon, and one of the biggest tropes…

T If there is one thing in this world that I just can say that I absolutely cannot stand, it would be people who talk for no reason. I understand that majority of the time talking is your way of expressing yourself and getting through everyday life, but it irks my soul when someone just starts an irrelevant conversation about nothing for no reason. One explanation on why I don’t get along with talkative people is because sometimes when they’re getting too hype on the conversation they…

From their dead eyes to their rotting bodies, the image of the zombie has become an icon in today’s society. Surpassing other horror characters, zombies over the years have become prevalent across a multitude of medias and genres. Although these brain-eating creatures are a work of fiction, author Chuck Klosterman argues that the life of the zombie apocalypse does not stray as far away from today’s society as some would think. Through his essay, My Zombie, Myself, Klosterman discusses the…

racism is alive and painful giving the audience a bleak look at American life. He speaks of the corruption and his personal fear of unjust and unethical treatment by others simply due to his skin color. George Romero directed the modern zombie horror film “Night of the Living Dead”, the main character is a Black…

years with new and old characters and new zombies. Not only have new movies been made and old continued, but recent movies have put historical figures at the forefront of this dilemma; one such movie is Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies. To balance out the horror of many zombie apocalypse movies, many producers have made movies that were meant to make the apocalypse seem a bit humorous. One famous movie like this is Sean of the Dead, a movie in which the main character does not even realize there is a…