Horror novels

“When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself”- Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg was very inspired by filmmaking while he was young. He took this inspiration and made his dream come true. After dropping out of college, he worked as an intern at Universal Studios. Then,…

have been cautioned from it as people believe that it is evil. There are so many religious groups in the world and it requires one to be keen on which religion they will be attached to. In this paper I will discuss about how the Halloween has become horror in USA. I will give my opinion on the same and support my statements. Halloween is duration of celebration and superstition, it is believed to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Sambaing when people would put on fires and wear…

scholarly works on film remakes as a cultural phenomenon. The contributors to this collection focus on the multiple ways in which horror, science fiction, and fantasy films have been remade and analyze them through a range of perspectives from the philosophical to the technological elements that reside in them. The compilation of these essays all argue that the remakes of horror, science fiction, and fantasy films reveal our recurrent fears, anxieties, and hopes for the future, while offering…

I pondered, weak and weary…” Sounds spooky, right? This isn’t your ordinary horror film. It’s actually a poem, written by none other than Edgar Allan Poe. I know what you’re thinking; nothing is scary about a poet. Well, then you’ve never read an Edgar Allan Poe piece. You may be thinking that a writer from the 1800’s is not for you, but here is why you’re wrong: 1. Poe’s writing can be scarier than your favorite horror films today. His tales and poems start at scary and go to just straight…

The Big Sleep is an film noir, which was pioneering in crime drama tropes and style. The film utilizes editing techniques and camera work to convey a intricate narrative. One of the most interesting scenes to me was in the opening of the film when Marlowe is talking to General Sternwood which really introduces the main character through his interactions with the old man. The scene also makes good use of the 180-degree rule, shot/reverse shot, and eyeline matching which makes the dialogue between…

The opening first few minutes of a film do a lot to tell the audience what kind of experience they have just sat down to watch. The opening sequence can set up the main characters, the location of the film, time period in which the film is taking place, or it may simply just be a place for credits to go. The opening scene also does a lot in setting up some of the films themes. Comedies for example may start off by a main character telling a joke, or being put in a humorous situation. This gets…

The cinematography is one of the things that stands out most in the movie Vertigo. Not only is the vertigo effect (dolly zoom) fun and intriguing, but even from the beginning of the film, the shots really stand out and are very different from anything we’ve seen in Hitchcock’s earlier films. I liked watching the way the film transitioned from sepia to red and the various zooms to different parts of Madeleine’s face, then to the rotating symbols. All of this seemed very symbolic to me. The sepia…

the film pleasing to his audience’s senses. Another style unique to Tim Burton is the use of motifs such as re-animation and death. Tim Burton uses these styles to not only allude to his fascination of the macabre, but to also maintain the classic horror tradition and imprint his cinematic fingerprint on each of his films. Overall, his manipulation of these two cinematic elements, color and theme, is responsible for his reputation as an astounding film director. Tim Burton uses dark coloration…

desolate. Now that we have a decent set of examples of what The Creeper is and what he can do, we can definitely give him a comparison to the other classic monsters and antagonists out hitting the charts. The Creeper is truly an underdog of horror films. Although, he does make few appearances on screen and the anticipation kicks in for us watchers, he leaves an imprint and making the viewers long for…

Diegetic sounds are sounds that come from the movement or actions seen on screen or in the world of the movie. Diegetic sounds help draw the viewer into the film so that they think they are actually part of it. In films we hear familiar sounds that we hear every day and we can make a connection to them. The sounds that I will add will make the viewer feel suspense as well as a feeling as though they are actually in the film itself. The first sound I will add is known as an ambient sound. An…