Night terror

Suspense thriller is one of the subgenres of a film that is popular for its excitement and tension. It usually includes crime scenes that trigger audience’s curiosity. Not only that, it also has been known to give a sense of tension that can cause the audience to feel uneasy and disconcerted. One film that can be taken as an example is a film titled Fracture (2007) by Gregory Hoblit. This film tells about an attempted murder case of the wife of an aeronautical company owner named Ted Crawford…

Turn off the sound while watching a horror movie. Watch the asinine teenager investigate the door, creaking open by some haunting force. Scared? Probably not. The horror movie genre feeds off of brilliantly unsettling soundtracks to terrify the audience, peeking through their hands as the creature emerges from the hollow darkness behind the girl. Even the great director Alfred Hitchcock alloted much of his movies’ successes to the clever use of the soundtrack, like the screeching violins in the…

When people imagine monsters, they think of mythical creatures, the fantasy of an old wise tale. As a matter of fact, some people believe in the life of mythical creatures. The monsters in Beowulf are described as demons, and represent horror. But maybe there are other than just mythical creatures in our world, that may even have the same representation as the monsters in Beowulf. While not physically destroying a memorial place like Grendel does to the Heorot Hall, but brainwashing a nation and…

Violence is a commonly used theme that has various ways it’s represented in fiction and film. Brutality allows films and stories to move forward through endless suspense as each part is a surprise. However, when you add violence and comedy together, you get a suspense-filled story with random moments of comical relief before or after a violent moment. “No Country for Old Men” and “Good Men Are Hard To Find” showcase an up-and-coming genre filled with both violence and comedy that creates a new…

7 best psycho-thriller movies from Hollywood that are can make you go inquisitive. Psychological thriller movies tend to fascinate a lot of viewers with developing a feeling of suspense, moods of anxiety, fury and confusion at the same time. The audience of the film are trying to figure out what’s next and then there’s a twist where comes a feeling of exhilaration. The extent of creating intrigue and mystery in which mind-games are involved leading a person to become inquisitive about what’s…

Black Mirror is a psychological thriller and science fiction anthology series created in 2011 by Charlie Brooker. An anthology series depicts a different story and separate characters in every episode, making each one a standalone plot by itself. It ran for two seasons on Channel 4 before the show was made popular for its latter two seasons when it was purchased by Netflix. This dystopian series quickly became a hit through its focus on the controversial truths of modern society, as well as its…

Horror films are cherished throughout the world. The thrill and adrenaline rush horror films provide cause audiences to scream at the edge of their seats. Watching frightening motion pictures, for entertainment, is quite acceptable, provided you do not emphasize the situation depicted in what you are watching. There are a lot of cases in which the terrifying scenes may affect individuals mentally and physically. It can often produce uneasiness, restlessness, fear, and mental trauma that may…

“The Terror” or the “Reign of Terror”, as it is sometimes known, was an event that started on the 6th of September 1793 and lasted until the 28th July, 1794. It can be considered to be the first example of modern industrialised killing through the wide spread use of the guillotine…

“Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me” - Tim Burton. In Tim Burton’s films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edwards Scissorhands, and Alice in Wonderland he uses low key lighting, high key lighting, and non-diegetic sounds to create suspense and suspicion, bright and open looking scenes, and happy or spooky moods. For people to feel the suspense and suspicion in the movies, Tim Burton uses low key lighting in the scenes to create a spooky mood. For example, In the…

The Nightmare That Came Alive On October 31th at 2:44 A.M., I just awaken from a horrifying nightmare. I am Magnolia Reeser, my friends call me Maggie, I have always loved haunted places, but my nightmare was a little too eerie. I never had such a strange horrifying nightmare, like this before. I was with my two best friends, Kylie and Akira. Kylie, always scared and never up for much entertainment, was already dreading the exciting trip planned. Together we walked through the corn field…