The Horror

Postmodern horror films became relevant to the public eye sometime after the 1960’s, these films exhibit a lot less conventional ideas that weren't necessarily shown in classic horror films. Overtime post modern horror has become more visually graphic due to the higher tolerance for violence that has relatively been acquired, this is caused by the frequent exposure of violence , either it being from television programs and movies, to games and, wars, it has been an unavoidable sight Brandon,…

documentaries, fantasy, musicals, gangster films, and my favorite horror. The horror genre can be broken into many subgenres which can include the ghost story, vampire film, monster movie, the slasher-thriller, and zombie picture. (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014) In this paper I will focus on the horror genre, specifically the gory horror film, Saw and how it helped change the shape the boundaries of the horror genre. Tim Dirks describes horror films as unsettling films designed to frighten…

Ghostface, Scream Who can forget those classic horror lines that still give you the creeps at night? But like every other genre of film, horror movies have progressed over the decades, adjusting to each new generation and preying on or catering to their fears. My name is Joee Granato and today I will be selling to you my new cutting edge horror film but before I get to that I’d like to talk about how I came to the idea of this movie. As I said before, horror has evolved over the decades for…

American Horror Story is an American series of horror seasons on FX, that tell a new story season to season. The producers of the show are Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. The series is meant to reach out to a wide range of ages, I would say it mainly targets teenagers and people in their early to middle adulthood. The Asylum is the second season of the series American Horror Story. Asylum begins in the 1960’s at a mental institution named Briarclif Manor, which happens to be in the hands of a…

What, if anything, do the monsters of horror cinema have in common, besides the fact that they are not real? They may be human—just think of Norman Bates, Leatherface, or Hannibal Lechter—but they are not real, in the sense of experientially real. They may even be non-fictional—just think of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990), a film about real-life mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas—but that still doesn't make them real (the Henry of the film is just an actor, Michael Rooker, pretending to be…

and horror. One specific type of movie I like is alien horror, so I’ve decided to review my top 3 alien horror movies. The aliens have so much room for interesting design, and means of being scary, these movies can be very diverse. Often times, these movies are set in space, which allows for more suspense to be packed in. The movies I chose to review are; Alien, The Thing, and Europa Report. I chose these three movies because I think they are much-watches for people who like alien or horror…

frightened to even go to bed, until, I made the mistake of putting on Amityville of Horror and began to watch the horror film by myself late at night with no one home. Amityville of Horror still gives me nightmares when I think about it lying in bed. I’m not one to get scared easily, especially scared of a film. When I was around 10 years old or so, my parents did not allow my siblings or myself to watch any horror or scary films based on the rating of the film. So one day when no one was home,…

try to scramble away only to be met with the eyes of your ultimate doom. …Sherlock Holmes? It’s more likely than you think. Whether one loves them for their creepiness, hates them for their cliches, or laughs at them for their silliness, tropes in horror movies are not uncommon, and one of the biggest tropes…

we all pulled it together. After a long debate about the topic of our assignment, we finally agreed to use the Horror movie, Saw. The reason why we picked Saw is because it uses suspense, scare tactics, horror and many more other features to display the underlying themes in the movie. The director of Saw, James Wan created a series of movies with crime, mystery, and psychological horror. The main character, Jigsaw is the man behind the mystery of people going missing. He plays a game in which he…

Stephan King Stephan King is a extremely well known author and has been always known for his horror stories. His most well known stories include IT, The Shining, Salem's Lot and several other books and stories. His horror writing is credited to him seeing his friend get hit by a train. He has no memory of the event but he came home scared and the next day the parents found out about the boy. He was inspired to write also when he found a HP. Lovecraft book that was his dad's. He said “I knew…