Reign of Terror

Have you ever watched a movie that left you jumping at every little sound? What about a movie that didn’t necessarily scare you, but left you with an uncomfortable feeling? After watching F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, I wasn’t scared, but more creeped-out. When he directed the movie in 1922, he used many different variables to give Nosferatu an eerie feeling. Murnau broke the typical vampire stereotype when he directed Nosferatu. Instead of making the vampire handsome, charismatic, and…

horror world to this day, if you were to ask your parents what scared them the most when they were your age they would most likely say Freddy Kruger or Jason Voorhees or even Michael Myers, and they had every right to be scared of these immortal terrors! These icons have stayed the tests of time for decades and have been rebooted more times than spider man but they still hold their integrity and…

Horror is a genre of gaming that most people don’t like getting into, but once they do, they can’t stop playing. They play many great horror games made by big companies and then start playing horror games made by smaller companies or one person. A game developer never wants to let down a player, but with so many great horror games out there that their audience has probably played or at least seen, it is hard to top them. They need to know what makes a good horror game. There are two “flavors of…

For whom is 1982’s “Conan the Barbarian” a guilty pleasure? There are some that wouldn’t openly admit to having it in their movie collection, as it’s a none-too-serious, sword and sandal action flick. I’ve watched this movie perhaps a dozen times since the mid 80’s and I think it holds up well despite its age. After another viewing, I became curious what other people thought of it, and read a number of reviews from around the time of its original screening, and more recent ones to compare. The…

It's always important to know yourself, your outer and inner self. No matter what happens there will always be a monster around you, no longer under your bed anymore it’ll be with you where only you can feel and see it. It could be your emotions or it could be the way something very powerful changed you deep down. My personal monster is the fear of not succeeding in life. Growing up we would always hear and believe in monsters under our beds, we would immediately get scared thinking something…

Everyone has a fear, no matter how big or small most people work hard to try and avoid their fears, but when a person fears something inevitable, something that no one can escape, it eventually catches them, because death spares no one. Although "Nothing in the Dark" and "The Masque of the Red Death" were written by two different people, in two very different time periods and appear to be very different from each other, they have many similarities. Edgar Allan Poe, author of "The Masque of the…

Selena Kitchener Huffaker English 4 1 December 2017 Fear Keeps You Alive Fear is something everyone experiences at least one point in their life. Whether someone’s fear is of public speaking, spiders, or the dark, it is all natural. The shaking, sick to your stomach feeling is often regarded as uncomfortable to many people. However, fear can also prevent people from getting seriously injured. The general uncomfortable feeling could actually be beneficial. Fear is not always a harmful emotion…

guaranteed to make you sleep with the lights on. Dead Space “One of the smartest takes on the survival horror genre, Dead Space took the oft-overused theme of zombies and made a really special style of game,” claims Telegraph. IGN believes that the terror of Dead Space comes from the monstrous creatures that are quite difficult to kill. The entire game takes place in a spaceship full of flickering lights, fog, and enclosed spaces. Enemy Zero This game also sets the player on a spaceship,…

The Nightmare Before Christmas. Have you ever watch the movie “Nightmare Before Christmas”,? Well I did, do you think it’s a halloween movie or a christmas movie? Some people think it’s a halloween because most the movie is very dark. Others thing it’s a christmas movie because Jack the main character and his town people make presents. Me personally I think it’s a halloween movie more. First, it’s a halloween movie more than a christmas because the main character is Jack The Pumpkin King.…

Have you ever watched a horror movie and thought about how bad those people's decisions are? Yea, I am pretty sure we all have at least once. Watching the movies just makes all of us cringe because their decisions just don’t make sense! We can help it though. All of those decisions could be prevented if those people just followed the rules of a horror movie. There are six important rules. Don’t go into creepy houses, don’t investigate the creepy noise outside, don’t talk to the murderer, hide in…