Horror films

“Why We Crave Horror Movies,” an article by Stephen King, he explains his view on why we enjoy horror films. He chooses to say we go to fill a somewhat morbid taste for watching someone suffer, as well as using it as a method of triumph, showing others we simply can bare it. King says that if we aren’t feeling quite ourselves or are just feeling off all we really need is a good horror movie to set us right again. He claims that we all have a part in us that craves the gory, horror in films for a…

This paper investigates the utilisation of film scores, in particular in the horror/fantasy category, as an Instrument to evoke a persons, emotions, repercussion states (E.g conjuration) and other phenomena, when these are not introduced on screen or need emphasis by the score. On this subject I will fundamentally concentrate on the putative achievement of new musical dialect and common assumptions made on the affectional impacts of film music, frameworks a few observational studies that could…

For what seems like forever, I’ve had the same complaint about the state of the horror genre. One film after another follows a nearly identical premise, depicting a small group of people wandering around a dark, confined area (typically a house or forest) - haunted by a member of the supernatural community. The ghule in question varies based on the story, taking the form of ugly shadow figures, women draped in black, children, and dolls - all focused on causing chaos. That said, this is a…

The films American Movie and It Follows serve as great examples of realistic and formalistic aesthetics, respectively. Realistic aesthetics deal with the idea of objectivity in film making, and any aesthetics implemented serve to continue the narrative or theme of the film. The idea of formalistic aesthetics directly contrasts this; these films works in the realm of subjectivity and regards aesthetic form just as high as the plot. This strong contrast between the two aesthetics can be seen…

Horror. Not many will think of this and be relieved. Some may stress at the thought of sitting and watching a scary movie. However, some get excited. They enjoy watching and getting scared. In Stephen King’s essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies”, he states that people like horror films because they are “mentally ill”. He says that by watching these movies, people feed into their darker side so they can continue to be normal. People are then some what suppressing the negative side of the human…

The movie “I Am Legend,” a post-apocalyptic science fiction film, directed by Francis Lawrence in 2007, is regarded as one of the most popular modern vampire-like creature films. It is also credited as the main influence to portray vampires as the characters we know nowadays. Of course, it is not the first time that the concept of a ‘living vampire’ is used in the film industry, and this is actually the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend in 1954, which was published after…

There are many differences between the book The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and the 1999 film, The Haunting, directed by Jan de Bont. The main characters in the film are, Lili Taylor as the timid Eleanor Vance, Catherine Zeta-Jones as the beautiful, frisky Theodora, Owen Wilson as the deceiving Luke Sanderson, and last but not least, Liam Neeson as Dr. Marrow (Montague in the book). Many argue that this movie barely follows with the book at all. Lisa Schwarzbaum, writer for…

shown on the screen, and the cinema workers themselves, guilty in the defilement of young minds and morals, are victims of those who they have raised. Roman Polanski in his work has specialized in bloody paranoid "horror movies", and his wife Sharon Tate consistently starred in these films. The audience often had the opportunity to contemplate the naked body of the actress, generously smeared with red paint of simulated blood. These pictures were left very few people indifferent. However, this…

Horror is a genre of films and literature which stimulates negative emotional reactions of its viewers and readers respectively. The reactions would primarily be fear, shock, terror, anger and pure agony. “The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the…

locally produced horror and supernatural films was lifted, marking an era when the number of supernatural film screenings skyrocketed in local cinemas. Much of this was due to the efforts of Shuhaimi Baba, as she managed to convince the censorship board to reconsider the ban so that local films could be financially competitive with the influx of foreign horror films (Hassan, 2013, p 228). It is useful to note that before the censorship was being lifted – for few decades, overseas horror films…