Horror novels

Robert Zemeckis are similar in the sense they are both amazingly put together in a horror movie that the viewers loved. It takes a lot of effort to make a good movie that the audience will like, but it would take more from a horror movie so the audience would stay and watch up till the end. For the people who do enjoy the horror movies, there are many reasons why they watch scary movies. The elements that make the horror effective are that it creates tension; this had been accomplished through…

importance of camera angles and movies. Director Hitchcock himself said that “33% of the effect of Psycho was due to the music.” That is just the music alone, add in the camera angles and it makes up the majority of the movies suspense! Psycho, is a horror film in which a man named Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) runs a motel, but suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder. He was sometimes his Mother and other times partially his mother and partially himself. Bate’s father was dead and…

scenes, and suspenseful music are all the ingredients for a scream filled tormenting movie referred to as a horror movie or a scary flick. Horror films are movies that are created to provide a feeling of fright, unease and panic to the people viewing them. Some people love the adrenaline rush they get from the unexpected killer slicing his victims head off its body. Others love to watch horror films because of the love they feel from their partner while watching the movie. A certain scene in the…

cult horror film. With Everman’s proposal it gives some idea of what constitutes a cult horror film and what a cult horror film is not. Everman’s idea should be at least the basics that we use to identify a cult horror film and with them we can start to form a list of films. I believe based on what Everman proposed Texas Chainsaw Massacre should headline the list or at the very least be in the top three. Everman acknowledges that the term cult horror film is almost synonymous with “bad horror…

It was day 9 of the 12-day cruise. Sitting with my family at the dinner table, I interrupted the conversation and asked if I could be excused so I could go see some friends that I had met on our cruise. I got the go ahead and the time I had to be back in the cabin that night. Normally my curfew is 12am, but that night in particular I thought I could stretch it a bit because we had no obligations for the next morning. I went back to the room, changed, grabbed my phone then went out. The usual…

the horror film and literature discourse community. According to Swales, there are six characteristics that make up a discourse community. They are common public goals, mechanisms of intercommunication among members, participatory mechanisms to provide information and feedback, utilizing one or more genres in communication, a specific lexis, and a threshold level of members with a degree of relevant content and discourse expertise (Swales 471-473).…

Films that have high levels of tension and viewer relevancy while maintaining minimum unrealism will attract those who enjoy watching horror films. On the other hand, these characteristics could be the exact reason why some do not enjoy horror films. Watching horror films has both positive and negative effects on its viewers’ mental health, thoughts, creativity, and actions and reasons for watching them or not may vary. Some would compare it to a roller coaster ride. Heart rate increases, palms…

be very much an uneasy feeling in the literature, as in that of a supernatural horror movie. Films such as The Blair Witch Project will use mythical elements as part of magical realism, in trying to make the audience process mentally; what is happening in the film. Many other horror and thriller genres use magical realism and especially dramatic irony as part of their themes. The old stereotype of a character in a horror film, going into a room when the audience knows there is a horrible…

something that was superficially and customarily separate from “us” --the victims, and the audience--the same fear of our fellow man was created. No matter how “other” the tribal peoples were, they were human beings and therefore the horror instilled in viewers was that same horror and introspective confusion created by viewing Funny Games. Like Cannibal Holocaust, Funny Games calls to our attention the human capacity for needless cruelty but it also forces us to examine how we filter and…

the most purely entertaining zombie film. The writer and directorby Yeon Sang Ho produced the action horror railroad movie “Train to Busan” which is largely place riding aboard high seed KTX train travelling from Seoul to Busan in the middle of the zombie. Director of Yeon Sang Ho , who produced the famous animated feature “The King of Pigs” and “Seoul Station” transitioned to live action a horror thrill ride with the zombies in the train. Train to Busan is a zombie genre entertainment that…