Masters of Horror

no matter how interesting, I always end up falling asleep somehow. However, one of my favorite genres is dramas with suspense. Something about mystery-based movies makes them so compelling and riveting; they always leave you guessing. Above all, horrors are my absolute favorite, but I can never watch them, due to my anxiety and extreme paranoia. After watching The Human Centipede II, I was drowning in sleepless nights; subsequently, I was suffused with regret. Most of the time, I watch films…

Halloween is around the corner and this is such a major holiday for so many children. Though it may be filled with talks of scary ghosts and goblins, most children are excited about the costumes and loads of candy they'll receive. Since the fun costumes are a major part of the holiday, it's important to find an awesome one. However, the prices for a typical costume in the costume stores can run pretty high. Thankfully, there are different tricks and tips to get around the high price tag.…

When a supernatural figure is brought up, either one is scared or curious to explore that creature. However, monsters that appear from the earlier years seem to fear more readers than others, with an unclear background, many tales are told to scare off the audience. We are left with a history of this object, leaving us to stereotype them. We aren’t positive if the information given to us is fiction or true. Therefore, this leaves one clueless of what the characters are getting their selves into,…

from love, then there are the few who like to be scared. We like to feel the adrenaline running through our veins our blood pumping, and our heart racing just from being scared. Somehow we find joy in being scared whether it through a scary movie or horror novel that we are currently reading, we have to give thanks to the man who started this genre with a single book. That man is Horace Walpole a British author who in 1765 he published his book “The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story”. This…

Task one Horror is a sub-genre of film there are three main sub-genres to horror 1 psychological horror – the story will be about the character’s fear, guilt and beliefs 2 supernatural horror – these films have ghosts and demon’s aliens etc. as the villains with impossible abilities 3 slasher horror – they have a psycho often in a mask killing high school kids in an isolated buildings or towns they often set ate night time to made it scarier. Often the villain will jump out of closets and…

A Study of Popular Horror Films through Feminist Lenses There has been some feminist work on horror films and most contemporary feminist studies of horror films are psychodynamic. Within the psychodynamic theory the films may be considered as artifacts where such aspects as plot, narrative or point of view may be recognised, however the chief interest lies in the viewer’s motives and interests in watching horror films and on the psychological effects such films have. Horror as a genre has…

at least the first recorded stories. But before we continue, when spoken of horror it is not all that frightens man, but all supernatural fiction with a dark side; witches, werewolves, etc. Folklore and religious traditions contain the roots of horror because of fictional characters, for example vampires, whom can be found in even the oldest of folklore. But the first horror literature that can be related tot the horror we have today can be traced back to the inquisition. In the early 1200s the…

Kallie Hall Professor Peltier Literature 100 10/28/2015 Midterm Exam Group A: The poetry we covered from the Renaissance was “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer Night” and “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” by Shakespeare, “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, and “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe. These writers confront the idea of “carpe diem” by not entertaining the thought of what tomorrow may…

the creativity of their minds to make believable monsters that will strike fear in the young and kids. Monsters exist till this day because it not only represents the fear of the unknown but it’s also a big part in the Hollywood movies such as the horror movies like The Conjuring, Annabelle, Mama etc. According to Stephen T. Asma, professor of Philosophy at Columbia Collage Chicago, explains humans are vulnerable therefore monsters are a representation of the fear of the unknown (par.6). We as…

see horror films is a mystery. The question as to why a person would put themselves through the psychological tortures that horror films create does not have a simple answer. However, it is evident that throughout time people have had a morbid attraction to the unknown and unexplainable. The reasons behind a person continuing to seek the thrills of a horror film is subject to the individual. Any film can seem scary to certain people, so the real question is in regards to how successful horror…