Reign of Terror

Audience Evolutionary psychology has ingrained are minds with fear triggers and survival instinct, fear of the dark, fear of being alone, fear of not being heard, and much more Aristotle apotheosized that humans where attracted to scary stories and violence because it helped them purge negative emotions we now call this catharsis by watching violent movies we as humans are meant to release the pent up feelings we all feel at some point I plan on playing with peoples built in survival instinct…

The first time a transformation truly scared me was in the fourth Harry Potter movie. In it, Lord Voldemort is resurrected in a grotesque scene where he rises out of a cauldron. One of his henchmen, Wormtail, slices open his arm, lets his blood fall into the cauldron, and Voldemort grows from infant to grown man in just a few seconds. The creepy computer-generated Voldemort fetus was utterly terrifying to a six-year-old (I got started on Harry Potter at a very young age). Because of this early…

What, if anything, do the monsters of horror cinema have in common, besides the fact that they are not real? They may be human—just think of Norman Bates, Leatherface, or Hannibal Lechter—but they are not real, in the sense of experientially real. They may even be non-fictional—just think of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990), a film about real-life mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas—but that still doesn't make them real (the Henry of the film is just an actor, Michael Rooker, pretending to be…

Watching television has become a big part of American culture today in society. There is a wide range of different shows not only on television but offered through other online services like Netflix or Amazon. Genre in television shows vary from comedy to drama, but horror genre has made a comeback on television and continues to be popular. The term "horror" to describe as a genre would not be used until after Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931. Cuddon (1984)…

Neil Jordan, in his interview “Life among the Undead: An Interview with Neil Jordan” from Cineaste contributor Declan McGrath (2013), discusses that presenting the female protagonists as monsters, rather than the victims of monsters, in his movie Byzantium creates a varying audience response to the exemplary depiction of vampires. Jordan supports his ideas by explaining the film’s female writer exploring a previously unknown viewpoint, the human emotion subtext in the perfectly cast characters,…

Fans of "The Walking Dead" have been treated with the show's spin-off and now "Fear the Walking Dead" Season 3 is renewed by AMC. Also, "Talking Dead: Fear" is also renewed for another season to complete the viewers experience. According to the president of AMC Charlie Collier, Dave Erickson and Robert Kirkman's efforts to create "Fear the Walking Dead" are invaluable, Den of Geek reported. The upcoming "Fear the Walking Dead" will offer its fans new, creepy and undeniable scenes that will show…

It’s official, the “Ghostbusters” trailer is out and the reboot looks epic with easter eggs ripe for the taking. It looks like Melissa McCarthy and the rest of the ladies have successfully rebooted the original film. The world has finally seen video footage of Paul Feig’s reboot of the classic “Ghostbusters.” If you’re a fan of the original then this all-girls version could just make the ghost hunting much more sweeter. Easter eggs were all over the place when the video was aired and Feig…

Haunted Stories In my culture the fear of hauntings is very strong, the idea of a spirit lingering, cursed in this world, is evident in the common epitaph RIP, or Rest in Peace. The idea of ghosts and haunted houses can be found in many books and movies. One in particular, The Amityville Horror, a book by Jay Anson, and later made into a movie, is a particularly frightening story because it is reported to be true. The story I chose to read for this week’s assignment is, Letter to Sura, by…

Gary Sinise brings steinbeck's classic book full of friendship and loyalty to life in the movie of Mice And Men. It is full of emotion just like the heartfelt book. the movie is recommended for fans of historical or realistic fiction. You definitely need to read the book before watching the movie. This movies hook was interesting and really draws you into the movie it starts with suspense because there is a lady screaming and if you have not read the book you would not know what was…

The supernatural affects everyone differently, whether it causes a person to go insane, mute, or kill themselves, it is obvious that the supernatural causes people to react in strange, often irrational ways. This is evident in both the American ghost story “The Tomb” written by H.P. Lovecraft and the Japanese ghost story “The Kibitsu Cauldron” written by Ueda Akinari. These two stories share many similarities one being the presence of an apparent mental illness, albeit at different severities.…