Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

movie of The Conjuring, it foreshadows a witch which is considered as a dark presence. In the movie, there is a new family of seven, five daughters and their pet dog that moves into an unfrequented farmhouse which took place in the '70s. Strange things have been happening to the house as well to the family, they call investigators to look at the house to find out why weird things have been happening. The reason for the dark presence, appearance in the house is because someone had died at the…

Connell is trying to establish a mysterious and scary mood in the beginning of the story, he does with by including different phrases such as "Ship-Trap Island", "Thick warm blackness", "Superstition", and he included the phrase "Crew's nerves seemed a bit jumpy today." The author added all this to really bring out the mysterious and scary mood in the story. One use of figurative language the author uses in the story is on the first page the story reads "But even you can't see four miles or so…

troubles with being different and his childhood make large impacts on his style and the way he directs his movies. He uses a variety of cinematic techniques to portray ideas about being different through his dark, yet childlike, style. Burton’s plots ring with child fantasies and bedtime stories, but he is no Walt Disney. Instead of happy endings and songs about wishing on stars, Burton horrifies his audience with darkness,…

Romanticism is an intellectual movement of the late 18th century to the mid 19th century. It focused on imagination, the supernatural, individualism, nature, and emotions, especially horror, awe, and terror. Romanticism valued achievements of the “heroic” individuals who would raise the quality of society. Romanticism was mostly a reaction from the Industrial Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment, which was a time of reason, science, and self-government. Some literature novels that contained…

Both stories are similar in certain ways but the movie just doesn't show Irvings Dark Romanticism side. Besides you can differ the movies plot and the books plot very easily. Both stories have the same characters and setting, but they just simply don’t have the same personification Washington intended them to have. They act very different when compared to each other. In the original version of 1820, Ichabod Crane is presented right at the beginning. The author tells a short brief story of…

It is the middle of the night in a dark-unbending meadow, there is a roaring sound that led some kids out and about. In the small town of Salisbury, there was always a rumor about a grimy, unnatural, tall-shadowed alpha. that steals kids prized possessions and the kids never believed these “scary nightmare” stories when they were told by their parents, till now. A shoebox, filled with stickers and movie tickets to every place and movie he has ever gone to or seen, was Tommy’s prized…

She said, “My mom said go outside and play, but when I’m outside I get bored so I just dance.” Nadia shows that she is an artistic kind of person because she loves to draw and dance. Sometimes she likes to read for fun, but realistic fiction and scary are the kinds of books she is interested in. There are too many pictures in comic books and they are all about super heros, that’s what she doesn’t like them. Her favorite movie is Bad Hair Day because “it’s funny to see them run around and get…

of the main protagonists. ✔ In the film Edward Scissorhands, directed by Tim Burton, appearance and reality was a main idea and how this impacted on the character of Edward. The film reveals the story of Edward, an abnormally looking human ‘creation’ who has scissors for hands. The story tells the story of Edward, who is invited to join a suburban family and leave his home of an abandoned mansion. Features such as costume, lighting, and dialogue help the viewers to learn understand that we can…

Frankenstein is “Technology”. The main character Victor Frankenstein creates a monster by reanimating a dead body. As he says in the story, “Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?” (Shelley, chapter 4). This goes with another interconnected motif in the story, which is “Science Fiction”. Once Victor created this “monster” it brought its conflicts and horrors. He ends up…

The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a short story of an unnamed narrator that claims he is nervous but not mad, and takes calmness for sanity. The narrator tells about a certain old man, that he loves, who has never hurt him, but he could not stand the sight of his filmy, blue, vulture eye. The narrator is so afraid of the eye he decides to kill the man so he would no longer have to see it. Poe reaches the greater theme in “The Tell-Tale Heart” by using three literary…