The Horror

willingness to watch horror films. Some people get a thrill out of watching horror films while others avoid the experience altogether. Humans try to eliminate fear from their lives, but fear in moderation is beneficial. While fear is often an emotion people tend to avoid, some actually embrace it as a result of fear creating feelings of joy and a rush. Fear motivates one to keep moving forward, creates the feeling of invincibility, and forces a person to live in the moment. Horror stories have…

in every dark room, the face that appears every time one closes his or her eyes, that is the type of traumatizing fear that will never disappear. What is so attractive about this horror? Why do we feast on the releases of new monster phenomena in all types of art? Science shows us that this process of indulging in horror actually makes humans more violent, so it is not a process of catharsis as Aristotle once thought (The Psychology of Scary…

symbols are used everywhere. They are read on people, paintings, books, television and even films. The main focus of this essay will be on films, focusing on the horror genre specifically. The use of semiotics within films is something that has been happening from the birth of films, even if we didn’t know about them, they were still there. Horror films in specific take advantage of signs and symbols, which mean different things to different people. Writers and directors have a vision for their…

There are two famous directors of horror genre, who contributed so many valuable movies to Horror world. The first one is Wes Craven, the writer of The Hills Have Eyes, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream series. People, who don’t have a chance to watch these movies, must somehow, heard about their stories or at least their name. According…

Not only does the monster well represent the idea of horror and monstrosity, but the film also portrays horror and monstrosity. The film does this not just through the actual creature, but through the societal role it plays on both parents and children. It scares the children because children’s sensitivity towards fear is quite high…

An enjoyable horror story gets our pulses racing and our skin tingling. The horror genre often revolves around the chaos of death, evil, demonic nightmares that tends to keep us up at night. When a story keeps us in suspense, we feel almost as if we are suspended in midair. We may even hold our breath without realizing it as we read on eagerly to find out how the story ends. Authors construct their horror stories to leave a great feeling of suspense as you continually read on. The author wants…

movie, my friends and I joke around trying to spook each other, or talk about how the movie was too scary to be real. Watching horror for fun is one of the reasons that Stephen King points out in “Why We Crave Horror”. Stephen King has pointed out as a human we crave horror to have some fun, get a feeling of normalcy, and to be able to face our fears. Humans crave horror for another way to have some fun. In Stephen King’s story, “Strawberry Springs” , despite the morbid fact that multiple…

hauntings is very strong, the idea of a spirit lingering, cursed in this world, is evident in the common epitaph RIP, or Rest in Peace. The idea of ghosts and haunted houses can be found in many books and movies. One in particular, The Amityville Horror, a book by Jay Anson, and later made into a movie, is a particularly frightening story because it is reported to be true. The story I chose to read for this week’s assignment is, Letter to Sura, by Pliny the Younger. The letter is a request…

cult horror film. With Everman’s proposal it gives some idea of what constitutes a cult horror film and what a cult horror film is not. Everman’s idea should be at least the basics that we use to identify a cult horror film and with them we can start to form a list of films. I believe based on what Everman proposed Texas Chainsaw Massacre should headline the list or at the very least be in the top three. Everman acknowledges that the term cult horror film is almost synonymous with “bad horror…

Films that have high levels of tension and viewer relevancy while maintaining minimum unrealism will attract those who enjoy watching horror films. On the other hand, these characteristics could be the exact reason why some do not enjoy horror films. Watching horror films has both positive and negative effects on its viewers’ mental health, thoughts, creativity, and actions and reasons for watching them or not may vary. Some would compare it to a roller coaster ride. Heart rate increases, palms…