The Horror

Why do we Crave Horror Films? Why do we crave horror films? Some say it’s to overcome fear, some say to understand fear, others say just for the excitement. Yet, author of the novel Why we Crave Horror Movies, Mr. Stephen King seems to think differently. Mr. King believes that we all love horror movies because of three specific reasons: to prove that we can sit through an entire movie, to reassure ourselves that we are normal, and oddly just because people love seeing others in…

Horror films are cherished throughout the world. The thrill and adrenaline rush horror films provide cause audiences to scream at the edge of their seats. Watching frightening motion pictures, for entertainment, is quite acceptable, provided you do not emphasize the situation depicted in what you are watching. There are a lot of cases in which the terrifying scenes may affect individuals mentally and physically. It can often produce uneasiness, restlessness, fear, and mental trauma that may…

Frankenstein and Dracula are stories of monsters that cause destruction and stress for other people. Both stories are classic horror stories that present similar, yet different characters. The main characters in both fight to defeat the monsters. In Frankenstein, the protagonist Victor Frankenstein studied at a university in Ingolstadt, and became fascinated with the creation of life. Victor Frankenstein was very smart, yet very foolish. Trying to be godlike, he discovered how to bring…

sensation called fear? Why does the brain react to certain circumstances in such a way? Fear is the brain's reaction to abnormality, not recognizing what it is seeing. Fear is commonly aroused by scenarios such as: paranormal events, spiders, and horror films. Looking at these scenarios in depth, you can’t help but to notice the abnormality of them all. For example, the paranormal is not a recognizable topic to the brain, therefore…

The article “Why Horror is Good for You and Even Better for Your Kids” perfectly narrates this in a few sentences. “If we take it further and make the children both the object of terror in these stories as well as agents for surviving the monsters… well, now you’re onto something magical. Plainly put, horror provides a playground in which kids can dance with their fears in a safe way that can teach them how to survive monsters and be powerful, too. Horror for kids lets them not only read…

The first horror movies are mostly surreal, disturbing pieces, owing their visual appearance to some extent to expressionist painting, spirit photography of the 1860s, the story styles of the Grand Guignol Theater Company and Gothic writing. They draw upon the fables and legends of Europe, and render creatures into physical structure. Spirit photography is the act of utilizing double exposures or superimpositions to portray apparitions on film. It was mainstream from the 1860s onwards not just…

My absolute favorite movies are The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. I know that these are two vastly different movies but what they have in common is that they are both comedies and musicals. I love musical comedies, mainly because I grew up in the era of High School Musical but also because I love music. Music is one of my passions (even though I can not sing or play an instrument for my life) because it is so expressive. Some of my favorite musicians are Marilyn Manson…

Tod Browning’s Freaks flings itself in-between the different categories of Terror, Horror, and Revulsion, sometimes splicing and mutating the different categories into indefinable, unrecognizable, terms. Browning’s aim for his film is not to clear anything up, using the themes of: us vs. them, good and evil, humans and monsters, etc. to create understanding or enlighten people; and it certainly is not a film promoting the message, “Freaks! They’re just like us!” His intentions, rather, is to…

the horror film and literature discourse community. According to Swales, there are six characteristics that make up a discourse community. They are common public goals, mechanisms of intercommunication among members, participatory mechanisms to provide information and feedback, utilizing one or more genres in communication, a specific lexis, and a threshold level of members with a degree of relevant content and discourse expertise (Swales 471-473).…

Do You know why most of horror stories are alike? Most of them have suspense ,fear ,point of view, and the themes are scary .I will include four criteria how the Tell-tale heart and Monkeys Paw can be categorized in the horror genre .they can be categorized in horror genre because they have fear ,suspense, and intensity. First, all horror stories have intensity . for example ,in the tell-tale of hearts the story start out with intensity.it says ,True – nervous- very ,very…