Horror films

When analysing Hitchcock’s Psycho, it is clear why it has been labelled as a horror. Although Norman Bates is not a monster in the physical form, his monster-like nature is within his human psyche. There are many reasons for this film to be regarded as a “horror”, the imagery of the old dark house is typical of “horror”, being set in an isolated place, off the beaten track presents a clearly gothic setting where as little as the appearance of a single woman unleashes forces of sexual assault,…

place in just as much as they depend on the actual horrific event happening. In addition, the presence of other characters during the haunting can determine how the event is scary because their reaction or lack of reaction can determine whether the horror stems from an unstable main character or an actual creature or monster. Henry James and Shirley Jackson understand this well; in both The Turn of the Screw…

The shining is a horror fiction novel by the author Stephen King. Stephen King is famous for his novels in the horror genre and The Shining is just one of the many thrilling books he has written. The Shining tells the story of a family of three: Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy Torrance, and their son Danny Torrance and the winter they spend at the Overlook Hotel. The Shining tells a great horror story, but what makes it a memorable book is the amount of detail that Stephen King provides the reader…

What holiday is the Nightmare Before Christmas to you? People think its is christmas because they're trying to make halloween town to christmas town. Personally I think the Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween movie. All the presents were very creepy, the characters were scary and the decorations were still like halloween. This paragraph, will explain how all the decorations were scary. In the movie the reindeer were dead while flying. The fountain had a scary green color of water. It is…

Fear has a way of controlling what we do what we say and how we react to different things. Like if you watched a scary movie and you are told to take the trash out or turn the lights off at night then you are going to say no because you are going to be too afraid that something is going to come out and get you. The way that I have shown fear is when I was about 9 or 10 and I went into my mom’s room and watched Friday the 13th at night. I was really scared because I thought that he was going to…

With companies such as Blumhouse, watching a horror film is never the same experience as each film produced by the company has its own taste in narrative as well as production techniques. My creative project will examine the new approaches and put them into practice, specifically focusing on a new approach to the horror genre, known as ‘Choose your own adventure’. This technique requires multiple scenes that allows the viewer to choose the path which the film will take, by deciding what happens…

Imagine being placed in a horror story full of dread and isolation, would one be able to remain sane throughout their whole experience? Horror stories in all types of media from novels to films often focus on a protagonist eventually losing their mind, as well as their grasp on reality. This same idea is presented in each media; The Real Bad Friend written by Robert Bloch, The Others directed by Alejandro Amenábar, and I Am Legend directed by Francis Lawrence, where the protagonist slowly loses…

Year, Kudos… I think that we can all agree that, for a long time now, the word “horror” has been losing its meaning throughout all kinds of media and entertainment, mostly because of the incredibly infamous “jumpscares” and lack of creativity when it comes to build up tension with the player/viewer. So, when I saw Albino Lullaby (a game that brags about its inventive methods of horror, and how it promises to be a horror game without jumpscares nor gore) I was pretty excited, thinking to myself…

The Beast of PTSD H. P. Lovecraft wrote: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” Fear is a chemical reaction that takes place in the same part of the human brain as excitement and happiness; that is what makes it so addictive to some (Javanbakht & Saab 1). However, fear is not always a good thing; it can compel people to do things that in normality, they would not do. Lord of the Flies is an allegory written by…

Everyone has a fear, no matter how big or small most people work hard to try and avoid their fears, but when a person fears something inevitable, something that no one can escape, it eventually catches them, because death spares no one. Although "Nothing in the Dark" and "The Masque of the Red Death" were written by two different people, in two very different time periods and appear to be very different from each other, they have many similarities. Edgar Allan Poe, author of "The Masque of the…