The Amityville Horror

America has become infatuated with this Western-born monster over the years, most of the interest has been, in part, due to author Stephen King. His monstrous catalogue of novels almost entirely consist of the horror genre. One of his most famous and recognizable creations is Pennywise the Dancing Clown from the 1986 novel IT. Pennywise is an extraterrestrial lifeform that manipulates humans by disguising itself as a clown. After he has drawn someone close enough…

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) was a horror/science fiction film that responded to the Cold War and Atomic Age anxieties of the 1950s. On the surface, this was a typical 50s B-movie (low-budget commercial film), but it became one of the best science fiction thrillers of the period because it highlighted contemporary fears. The movie’s title was taken from Jack Finney’s source novel, The Body Snatchers (1955). Under Allied Artists, Invasion of the Body Snatchers was directed by Don Siegel…

Movies are an internationally adored form of entertainment, however sometimes they can bring unforeseen consequences from the very nature of movies that makes us love them. Viewers can become so emotionally affected by films that it brings them to horrific actions. Take a look at the following five movies that caused fatal events, because the next time you walk into a theater, it may be your last. Number Five: Scream. The movie Scream debuted in 1996, featuring the frightening killer Ghostface…

What is horror? Horror is a type of extreme feeling of being afraid, disturbed and disgusted by something or a intense feeling of fear and shock. I believe that Frankenstein was written as a horror story, but when compared to all scary movies today by our standards today the movie is not really what we think as scary. Back when the movie Frankenstein was originally created horror was not to the full potential as it is today so then it was a extremely scary movie. Mary Shelly’s novel is mostly…

You may have seen or read a scary, gruesome, , gut wrenching movie or novel, but nothing compares to the novel or film of “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy. This horrifying fiction is above anything you can imagine. This fiction really portrays humanity as dark and pessimism throughout the whole thing. To start it off, The whole first page of the novel instantly reveals its deep and dark sense. Like one of the first sentences in the first page start out with “nights beyond darkness and days more…

The focus on aesthetics, or more commonly known, the admiration of beauty, might seem abnormal when discussing monsters, after all, a monster is known for its lack of beauty. Early myths portrayed the monster as something to be killed, a brute that may have resembled humankind, similarly as their divine beings did, however as opposed to being worshiped, they were consistently kept in the cemetery of crushed enemies. Over the years, the monsters of myths have moved from the iconic literary works…

I was fully prepared to love “Full Metal Jacket.” I just watched Kubrick’s “The Shining,” and was hungry for more from the ingenious director. Plus, the genre of war films is one of my favorites, so I was excited to see this landmark. “Full Metal Jacket” isn’t the high mark of the limited oeuvre I’ve seen from Kubrick, but it’s still a very good movie. “Full Metal Jacket” is told through the eyes of Pvt. J.T. ‘Joker’ Davis (Matthew Modine), a Maine Corps recruit. Viewers see Joker go through a…

Do fans choose their "team" based on preference for vampires or for werewolves? What comments lead you to believe this? I think that they do not choose their team based on characters because they like some things to attract them. I saw many people watch movies to see what happened and love to watch. I thought that not dependent on based on preference for vampires or for werewolves What attributes of vampires and werewolves lead to this choice? Alternately, do fans choose their "team" based…

Sound, color, deep focus, and other techniques enhanced the style. Genre in Hollywood Almost every Hollywood studio was associated with a specific type of genre; MGM had musicals and dramas, Warner Bros. Had gangster films, Universal had its share of horror films. Although different genres, they fallowed the same classical narrative structure. Problems arose in the beginning of the film and they must be solved in order to restore the balance in the world. To identify a genre we must look at…

The documentary Holy Hell is interesting in how it comes from a different perspective and angle than most cult documentaries. Many cult documentaries are usually formed as a historical overview of a specific large cult or the history of cults (Van Horn). These documentaries mainly consist of experts detailing the events that happened with the cults and giving facts about them and will maybe present a few former members to share their stories. The documentaries will usually have little to no…