Horror

The film is a dark horror comedy and it centres on the encounter of secretary who ends up at a secluded motel after stealing money from her employer and the motel’s distributed owner-manager and its aftermath. Truly an impeccable film that manages to match the standards that…

John Carpenter Pans AMC’s Zombie Series ‘The Walking Dead,’ Says He Didn’t Like it ‘The Walking Dead’ is one of those rare shows that boast of a cult status and massive fan following. It is a rage among horror show aficionados but it looks like some prominent icon from the horror world is not impressed with the zombie series. According to reports, John Carpenter, the man behind popular and successful movies ‘Halloween’ and ‘The Thing,’ has said that he did not like it. He stated that it was just…

I never personally tackled reviewing The Thing on this site before, because I just don't see the point. Us horror fans know that The Thing is a masterpiece, so what exactly can be said about it that hasn't been mentioned a million times before? Nothing, to be perfectly honest with you. If you by chance live in a tiny, tiny hole and have not had the luxury of witnessing this brilliant horror film, well, then now is your chance! Scream Factory releases the definitive version of The Thing on…

Horror has many sub-genres, while Jaume Collet-Serra’s House of Wax (2005) can be called a horror film, it may easily be classified as a slasher film. Slasher films typically revolve around a twisted serial killer molded by adversity faced throughout life. They usually target young, attractive adults in desolate areas. Throughout the movie, Jaume Coller-Serra effectively uses these common characteristics in his film along with a few others. After 1978 people began to view horror films…

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…

Sound, color, deep focus, and other techniques enhanced the style. Genre in Hollywood Almost every Hollywood studio was associated with a specific type of genre; MGM had musicals and dramas, Warner Bros. Had gangster films, Universal had its share of horror films. Although different genres, they fallowed the same classical narrative structure. Problems arose in the beginning of the film and they must be solved in order to restore the balance in the world. To identify a genre we must look at…

In the article “Spectacles of Death: Identification, Reflexivity, and Contemporary Horror,” Jeffrey Sconce compares two wildly different films (“Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” and “Freddy’s Dead”) as a way to explain how self-reflexivity and identification make the films all the more appealing to its demographic audience. In all films, the “enunciator” crafts a window of “psychological reality” where the spectator identifies with the visual field as a bona fide reality through the use of…

Hellraiser is a horror film written and directed by Clive Barker. This movie is about a man who has been recently resurrected by his brother’s wife, who seeks out mortality despite the underworld creatures coming for him to return to hell. This movie was made in the United Kingdom, but found it’s way to the United States to scare it’s way into our hearts. Hellraiser is very gorey, spellbinding, and unique. This movie has impacted the horror film community greatly with this iconic movie.…

The Age of Revolt Recently, United States citizens swarmed to the cinemas for a chance to watch in horrified fascination as fictional dystopias were projected in front of them. One must ask themselves, where does this obsession originate from? What is the appeal? Some may conclude it is just fascination at the idea of such a horrible society. After reading Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World, the reader might wonder: is the fear stricken into said movie-goers coming from the fear that we could be…

Why does the Ouija board get a bad rap? The Ouija Board is known as a talking board from the late eighteenth century for a novelty toy. It is merely a large board that has the alphabet, numerals, and a planchette to guide over the board. It has been known by many names throughout its history, but when the Parker Brothers' at Hasbro coined the named “Ouija” it stuck ever since. Its purpose from the early beginning of its journey was to decipher messages from the mysterious beyond through its…