The Amityville Horror

Nightmares can live in your mind, but they can live in the real world too. Nightmare’s come in the form of people, words, opinions, games, and judgement. Everyone knows about the nightmare in the real world where people are laughing at you, judging you, for everything you do. Judgement is a weapon that happens in many ways- for example, grades. Studying for hours a night for a week, you feel prepared to take a big test, like a Common Assessment. When you get the results back, however, you failed…

Much of the Young Adult Literature written today, especially in the fantasy genre, involves death which is frequently used as a way to push the plot line further and motivate the protagonist, whether it’s the death of a loved one that they need to avenge or a villain they seek to kill. Often times, death is also used as a way to identify the villains in the story. It is something that is also used as a way to emotionally relate to its demographic. However, does a dangerous pattern emerge from…

1.) During the time I was in cultural media class I really liked the horror genre. I have never watched Horror movies in my life and for the first time watching the films in class it thrilled me. For example, when we watch the movie the silencer I thought that movie was going to be too scary for me to watch. I wanted to step outside but I didn’t I because for the movie brought my attention even thought it was horror film I thought that it would be a great experience. And it was, through the…

The magic of horror games is to make players watch every step, inducing a feeling of fear when they turn around a corner. Horror game designers use a variety of tools to encourage the sensation of fear. However, players should associate themselves with a character and attach meaning to their actions in order to experience a thrill while playing a game. A concept, known as presence or telepresence - 'a sense of being present in a remote environment ' (Held and Durlach, 1992) - helps to achieve…

Which concludes that for members of a social species, such as the human species, the horrors of being alone is very real and very rational. Moreover, the approach of isolation in I Am Legend not only resembles society’s biggest fears, but it also becomes very similar to a system that we have in the United States today and that has become…

Society and culture have a large impact on film. This can be seen most clearly in Science Fiction and Horror Films. Films are often based on real-life events, or in some cases, fears. Two examples of this are Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The Cold War and fear of the spread of Communism led to the creation of films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre were both based on the crimes of Ed Gein. Some common themes in these…

How many walls again? Hi, how’s it going? You’ve been reading these papers for a while I’m guessing. How have they been? Good, bad? I would guess a little of column A a little of column B. Well I hope they all go well, especially this one. Anyways, if you haven’t guessed this particular paper is about walls, a specific one though, the fourth one. Yes fourth wall breaks, it’s an interesting concept really, ignoring the format and talking directly to your audience? Well I think so at least.…

Kings argument makes a good case for the publics attraction to this essay why we crave horror movies. The essay tells why people like going to the theaters and spending money to watch a scary movie. It tells how people sometimes can try to show how brave they are and how some people can also just want to be a kid and just enjoy those kind of movies. Steven king also tells few names of his favorite horror movies. People always come across those who try to show off that they are not afraid of…

example. He learned new experiences that he never had before. Auggie even learned some life lessons along the way. Some say Auggie isn’t like everyone else though, “because he’s different". Hey, we’re all different, unless you’re a creepy twin in a horror movie. Auggie has made some new friends on his courageous experience at Beecher Prep. Some of them are pretty nice, some are total butt munchers. It’s kinda hard to notice who is really your friend when everyone is forced to be…

Great horror movies stick with us because they have a great story and a chilling underlying fear sitting under the surface to stick with us. Subpar horror films have the story, but lack the underlying fear. Bad horror films lack both. NIGHTMARE CODE is a subpar horror film. The same problem afflicted this this year’s highly acclaimed IT FOLLOWS, but in reverse order. It had the deep seeded fear, but lacked the storytelling chops to actually do anything with those. NIGHTMARE CODE lacks the deep…