Reign of Terror

If you are interested in becoming a ghost hunter, it is important that you know how to identify the signs of a demonic haunting in the real life haunted houses that you will investigate. Throughout the history of ghost investigations, there have been several scary ghost video clips, real photographs of ghosts, and even ghost sounds recorded that seem to reflect that of a demonic haunting. Popular televised series such as the Ghost Hunters TV show and even movies such as "Paranormal Activity"…

As a child, the motion picture that frightened me more than anything was Candyman. The minor notice of the film sent me into a progression of trembling whimpers. Despite being a child at the time, I was not fearful and apprehensive of most thrillers. Truth be told thrillers and blood and guts films charmed me and dragged me into their plot with its groveling tentacles. One scene I will always remember was a man who was haunting apprehensive of honey bees, in his washroom, getting prepared, he…

The first horror movies are mostly surreal, disturbing pieces, owing their visual appearance to some extent to expressionist painting, spirit photography of the 1860s, the story styles of the Grand Guignol Theater Company and Gothic writing. They draw upon the fables and legends of Europe, and render creatures into physical structure. Spirit photography is the act of utilizing double exposures or superimpositions to portray apparitions on film. It was mainstream from the 1860s onwards not just…

In today’s world, many people live near the threat of terror and violence, whether they know it or not. Literary works will often create the anxious feelings of the characters by using a setting where terror is unlikely to occur, making characters frantic to find safety. The setting in Rod Serling’s play, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”, and his Twilight Zone episode, “The Shelter”, both provide a sense of security where the least bit of disturbance can force the people to become…

Halloween wouldn't be Halloween without the scare factor. Trick-or-treating is fun, getting candy is super sweet, but getting scared tops every quality that encompasses Halloween. There are five Horror movies with the creepiest kids that scare the pants off of us. It's time to get scared and most likely lose some sleep. Do you have your popcorn ready? Sure, Gage Creed is super adorable when he's alive, but afterwards... not so much. In the renown horror movie, Pet Sematary Gage Creed, a young…

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…

The history of horror is an interest of some, but not all. It is a genre seeking to rattle a negative emotional reaction by playing to the audience’s fear. Henry James became fascinated by the horror genre and used the fear tactic to craft many of his writings. One of his tactics is the usage of Ambiguity in his writings which included mysterious horror stories. In the Turn of The Screw, Henry James uses ambiguity in his writing to try to convert readers to critical thinkers based on his use of…

Everyone can appreciate a good jump scare, whether it’s from playing five minutes of Five Night’s At Freddy’s or if it’s your best friend coming up behind you moving with the stealthiness of a ninja. Horror films can offer a wide variety of frightful scenes that make you shiver in too much anticipation. Whenever a film, horror or not, is successful in capturing an audience's attention, you can bet your buttons that there will be sequels and remakes down the road. Sometimes, the preceding movies…

“Do you like scary movies?” – Ghostface, Scream Who can forget those classic horror lines that still give you the creeps at night? But like every other genre of film, horror movies have progressed over the decades, adjusting to each new generation and preying on or catering to their fears. My name is Joee Granato and today I will be selling to you my new cutting edge horror film but before I get to that I’d like to talk about how I came to the idea of this movie. As I said before, horror has…

Monsters in horror film are used for purposes such as scare people, arouse audience's interest, represent danger element in the movie and give prominence to show who is positive characters and who is negative characters in the film. Also, monsters need to have a metaphorical connection to the theme and upset the expected relationship between predator and prey. Without a good scary monster, the horror film could just become a fantasy film. I have chosen to focus on Count Orlok, Xenomorph and Pale…