Night terror

I’m living proof. My name’s Jason. I work the night shift at Argento's food store, with my best friend Luke. Luke’s been my best friend since as long as I can remember. We both got a part time job working the night shift at Argento’s food store. We start every day at midnight and finish at five in the morning. I call it the graveyard shift. Me and Luke were working one night, and it became boring.There barely any customers during the night, so we mostly sit behind the checkout counter,…

Drawing in this target audience, how well does the game stack up to horror films in the industry? In many ways, to say the least. A classic way to tell a story is by drawing ideas from real life legends. An example of this would be Bigfoot, Boogeyman, I Know What You Did Last Summer, among others. The legend in which Until Dawn draws on is that of the Wendigo. The atmosphere created is also very important. An underlying atmosphere which creates a sense of dread is also present in both. Along…

homeward toward dawn. "I implore you, unwavering cloak. Let her be," The Night sky would moan. Its unearthly-meander spilling into the earth below. "Tell me I do not love the evidence of dawn!" but the wind's mouth does not converse, it only whispers the truth--should you listen. Should you have ears to hear,"tell me she doesn't love me!" Limbless. Formless. As if a breath! The fragmented light threw her arms about the night sky! Spilling her luminosity into form... Bleeding, as the wind…

Hungry for Horror: Based on the Works of Stephen King What aspect of horror makes it such a popular genre of story and film? Are the large viewing crowds attracted to mysterious plots or maybe the bloody special effects? Or is there an ultimately deeper reason for the intrigue? In Stephen King’s article, “Why We Crave Horror Movies” he accurately asserts that it is the fear-facing elements, the establishment of normality or safety, and the peculiarly evil sense of satisfaction that is derived…

Halloween Horror Nights which I will be attending later this year. According to a 2004 paper in the Journal of Media Psychology by Dr. Glenn Walters, the three primary factors that make horror films alluring are tension, relevance, and unrealism. I, myself, feel I generally like horror because of the really cool looking monsters and badass serial killers. However, the first factor mentioned by Dr. Walters: tension, may also play a role in my fondness for horror. Suspense, mystery, terror, shock,…

You can always find a little touch of realism that is essential in any exceptional horror story, without it there would be no thrill factor, nothing to keep readers up at night wondering if the events in the book could happen to them. He has the right mix of scary events, like corpses rising from the dead or children of gods sucking away a person’s life, and realistic events, like accidentally choosing someone as your partner…

create what he thinks to be the “perfect” human. Instead of creating what he believes to be the “perfect” human, he ends up creating a monster. This monster sees himself in a mirror and is terrified of his own reflection. On Frankenstein’s wedding night, his monster of a “perfect” human visits him and his fiance. The monster is jealous of anyone who becomes close with his creator and attacks them so he tries to go after Frankenstein’s fiancee. The monster is portrayed to be someone who is feared…

Holy Terror "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear, is fear of the unknown."- H.P. Lovecraft . Fear can make a man do anything weather it be suicide or to wage war on another nation. Fear is the most powerful weapon in every society and time and time again people have shown their true colors when faced with fear, for better or for worse. Possibly the most devastating, eye opening event in American history, 9/11 made international…

Conflict and tension are necessary for all well written stories, interesting movies, and even great music. One genre of literature that relies heavily on conflict and tension are horror stories, which are narratives that provoke fear in the audience. Conflict is when there are two or more forces opposing each other. Tension, or the rising action, can be defined as the building of the established conflict until it reaches the climax then resolution. The climax is when the opposing forces resolve…

knowing what we see is purely vicarious. As a culture, Hollywood has been able to push the boundary of “acceptable” in horrors and thrillers over the years as viewers, directors, and actors grow desensitized to the subject matter. The fainting and terror experienced in the first screenings of Nosferatu are no more; the 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange, as directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on a novel by Anthony Burgess, features gruesome scenes of gang violence, murder, rape, drug use, betrayal,…