Horror

In Loving Memory of Philip K. Dick SOMA is a sci-fi Horror experience developed by Frictional Games. They are the developers responsible for creating Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the Penumbra series. I don’t typically play games that are in the Horror genre, and this is the first game I’ve played by this particular developer. Now sci-fi games, that’s completely different. I can deal with a little bit of horror in that case. At first, I thought I was stepping into a space station. It was a very…

Movies are what get people through their day. Movies are a way for lonely people to cope or for depressed individuals to become happy again. Without movies, the world would be a terrible place to live. Movies are judged by the way they make a person feel. Movies can make people laugh, cry, or get scared. Some people would not know how to function without a movie or two a day. Movies help people experience their emotions in a totally different way. There are three types of movie watchers in this…

It Follows combines coming of age with horror in an unsettling, almost claustrophobic tone. The film explores the inevitability of death as well as sex and adolescence using a creature they call "it". This film is about a teenager named Jay who has been told that she is the recipient of a curse that spreads through sexual intercourse. Only those who are infected can see the being that is following them. The opening image of It Follows captures the tense tone of the film perfectly; starting with…

There are few films that can boast the credit of having revolutionized a genre, and for horror, Psycho is one of those films. The 1960s horror classic directed by Alfred Hitchcock is considered one of the first movies in the slasher sub-genre, and is responsible for moving horror films away from the increasingly corny Universal Monsters of the earlier decades to a more serious threat. The film follows Marion Crane, a secretary who runs away from her home town after stealing a large sum of money…

Louis Stevenson’s novella the “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is an interesting story set to originally be published around Christmas time as horror stories instead of Father Christmas was popular during the Victorian age. Stevenson’s story however was quite popular for exploring a topic that no other novelist had covered yet in a horror story. Stevenson wrote about the split personality of Dr. Jekyll, who encompassed both himself as the original and the worse qualities that he…

all brains think differently in a unique way to bring their imagination to life. One thing most authors share in common is that they all go through many rejections and failure attempts till they become successful. Stephen King is an author of many horror fiction books. The way Stephen King wrote books was to believe that fiction was the truth inside a lie and that’s what made him a unique successful author. On the other hand, Wally Lamb was also a very successful author who got his books…

Stephen King’s novels The Shining and It are incredible examples of the exploitation of children in the 20th century horror-gothic genre. As American cultural historian David Skal notes, King’s novels “brim with fantasies of sacrificial children” (1993: 362). In The Shining and It, children play a significant role as victims who are being threatened by terrifying monsters. These monsters take very different forms but are nonetheless horrifying. The presence of the child in King’s novels must be…

violence, while his psychic son sees horrific apprehensions from the past and of the future. The "Danny's tricycle" scene is one of the most famous scenes in modern cinema history. Director Stanley Kubrick uses different film techniques to convey the horror and terror from Stephen King's novel. In this scene, camera angles and sound elements are used to create suspense, anticipation, vulnerability, and terror. In "Danny's tricycle" scene, director Stanley Kubrick uses different…

give “The Purge” a rating of 1.5 stars. The concept of the idea was original and fresh but due to the lack of directing staying true to the plot’s theme, poor script, bad acting, etc, this movie really plunged. This movie takes away from a true horror film and is miscategorized and is more true to a…

Psycho is a classic among the entire horror movie genre with many memorable iconic scenes by the only Alfred Hitchcock in the history of Cinema. Tense, horrific and a superb lesson in filmmaking, it offers complex characters and revealing dialogue with a huge regard for details. Psycho also features glorious use of mise-en-scene, a fancy French term for all of the visual elements in the frame used to infer meaning. Hitchcock famously uses this concept in the parlor scene, where Marion and Norman…