Stephen King

Night at the Museum is an adventure/comedy/action film directed by Shawn Levy which was released in 2006. The storyline boasts an unemployed and divorced Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) who seeks for a job in the Museum of Natural History where he discovers an ancient curse which causes historic exhibits to come to life. In this adventurous yet frightening film, the protagonist saves the museum with the help of his son Nick and other historic monuments such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Jedediah, Octavius…

Everybody loves a good horror story, Gothic Literature has been around since the late 18th century. Gothic genre refers to a style of writing that is characterized by elements of fear, horror, and death. In this essay I will compare and contrast Poe’s Gothic Literature to Modern Gothic Literature. For Poe’s Gothic Literature I will be introducing “The Fall of the House of Usher”. For Modern Gothic Literature I will be initiating “Sunbleached”. I will be pointing out the supernatural…

Charlotte Bronte’s literary piece Jane Eyre has established its name as one of the most skillfully written Gothic romance works in the Victorian era and now in present time. Delving deeper into the world within the novel, Bronte reveals a tale where love is perpetuated as the last step to self accomplishment along with thematic elements of gender criticism, feminism and love vs. autonomy. The contrast between Bronte’s novel and Franco Zeffirelli’s cinematic piece Jane Eyre (1996) is clearly…

Why is American in love with fear? There is a certain genre of movies called “Horrors”, which when a director creates the intense shock, fear, or disgust in their movies. These so called horror films include murders, ghosts, demons, monsters, and creature. Horrors get people’s hearts racing, and a movie like, The Children of the Corn, could leave some with the eebie-jeebies. Most people want to know why American’s enjoy the serial killing, ghost hunting flicks, but it all directly relates…

Being stabbed is something that, by the consensus of everyone everywhere, is not considered even remotely pleasant. Why would anyone want to be stabbed? Or to be placed into a situation with the possibility of being stabbed? Unfortunately for some people, as with the author of this article, are thrust into the situation without any warning and must deal with the consequences of the situation for the rest of their lives. In Emily Bernard’s article Scar Tissue, the author recounts the events of…

The Age of Revolt Recently, United States citizens swarmed to the cinemas for a chance to watch in horrified fascination as fictional dystopias were projected in front of them. One must ask themselves, where does this obsession originate from? What is the appeal? Some may conclude it is just fascination at the idea of such a horrible society. After reading Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World, the reader might wonder: is the fear stricken into said movie-goers coming from the fear that we could be…

As they secured my seatbelt my heart began to be faster and faster my palms were sweaty and my stomach has butterflies. My first time riding a roller coaster terrifying at first but an absolute black. My adrenaline was pumping and I was overcome by excitement. So, what is the allure of fear? It’s that rush of adrenaline that flood your body. People around the world seek that feeling that creepy scary feeling that can even be found in literature! In many pieces of literature you can see humans…

Occurrences that cannot be related to our scientific understanding or the laws of nature may also be defined as supernatural. The combination of fiction, horror, and romanticism that make up Gothic literature often lead to these paranormal events. Explaining the reason for this, a high school teacher stated, “Gothic literature aims to show that the fixed binary oppositions that operate in reality are actually a construct, and there lies a middle, blurred ground between what we like to think are…

The next morning, Jared was ushered to a different part of the jail, because he was such a dangerous inmate, and the guards shoved him into what would be his home for 4 days a week. Being about the size of a king size bed, this cell had all the amenities anyone would ever want. A wood bench, light, and metal door. The next 23 hours were for just to him, with peace and quiet, and those little voices that are in your head. No one felt bad for Jared, he was a…

Imagine being placed in a horror story full of dread and isolation, would one be able to remain sane throughout their whole experience? Horror stories in all types of media from novels to films often focus on a protagonist eventually losing their mind, as well as their grasp on reality. This same idea is presented in each media; The Real Bad Friend written by Robert Bloch, The Others directed by Alejandro Amenábar, and I Am Legend directed by Francis Lawrence, where the protagonist slowly loses…