Horror

The Movie “The Shining” was one of the best mysteries horror movies of all time. It’s about a family that stayed over the winter in a hotel in Colorado called “The OverLook Hotel”. A man named Jack wanted to write about staying there over the winter and how it will be a good vacation until things got to him and he went psycho. This film has a lot of allusions in most of the scenes, also towards the middle of the time being there Jack did a lot of violent things to Wendy and Danny. When unusual…

Horror can be described as an intense feeling of fear, shock or disgust caused by something frightful. This emotion is one that is used by the film industry to their advantage, by shocking and frightening the audience into being entertained. 20th Century Fox’s American Horror Story: Freak Show is the fourth season of the horror genre television show. The show premiered in 2014, and follows a struggling freak show in the 1950s trying to make money by acquiring the most unique freaks in town. The…

It is a German Expressionist horror film directed by F.W. Murnau. The film was an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula, thus the director had to change names and other details because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel. “Vampire” became “nosferatu” and “Count Dracula”…

who might be the bravest horse ever portrayed on film. It’s based on Michael Morpugo's 1982 best-seller. There's plenty of good action and the story is brilliant. It features the grand theme of war and drama, but it also is an intimate story. The horror of war is seen through the eyes of the horse. The story follows a horse through various owners and situations against the backdrop of World War I. A horse called Joey, who is bought at an auction. Their teenage son Albert trains him to pull a…

In “Practicing Medicine Can Be Grimm Work”, Valerie Gribben compares and contrasts the uses in which medical textbooks and fairytales have assisted her in the field. Gribben states that her technical, perplexing medical textbooks aided in treating her patients’ physical health, but lacked information to treat her patients’ metaphysical health. As an undergraduate English major who studied Victorian fairytales, Gribben revisited The Grimm fairy tales and found the answers she sought to help aid…

When it comes to comedy movies, what names pop to your head? Jim Carrey in Liar Liar (1997), Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun (1988), Will Ferrell in Anchorman (2004)? Or maybe if you have a more "sophisticated" taste, Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977) or Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski (1998)? All of these Hollywood films are fun and memorable in their own way, but there is a younger lad coming from the moores of England who has altered the understanding of comedy in cinema. In this paper, I am…

In the film Prometheus David is an Android, meaning he is not human. He is on board a ship with many other scientists trying to find their creator, David is there to assist them. Although he looks, talks and acts like a human he cannot feel the same way humans do but he can understand human emotions. Despite the fact he is not supposed to feel the way we do, throughout the movie he faces many obstacles dealing with his identity and who he truly is. Therefore, David battles an inner identity…

of the machete wielding madman in the house, or outside of their cabin. Slasher films also utilize these camera angles to make the audience relate to the victim. It puts the audience in a vulnerable position. They are no longer spectators to the horror; they are now in the shoes of the victim, forced to ride this roller coaster of terror. No scene exemplifies this technique of placing the audience in the victim's shoes better than the closet scene in Halloween. Laurie Strode, as the victim,…

example. He learned new experiences that he never had before. Auggie even learned some life lessons along the way. Some say Auggie isn’t like everyone else though, “because he’s different". Hey, we’re all different, unless you’re a creepy twin in a horror movie. Auggie has made some new friends on his courageous experience at Beecher Prep. Some of them are pretty nice, some are total butt munchers. It’s kinda hard to notice who is really your friend when everyone is forced to be…

Valentine, The Hills Have Eyes Part 2, Wicked Little Things, and now Beneath. All films that happen to take place in a mine, in fact I can't thing of a single film that takes place in a mine that I dislike. A lot of this stems from the fact I like horror films with a ton of ambiance with a claustrophobic feeling of being trapped to back it up, which is something Beneath has in spades. What makes this film even better is the tight script and well-balanced cast. Something that made this film…