Horror Story Essay

The horror genre is a severely underrated and neglected literary zone that not many writers choose to call home. Stephen King is an author who dares to face the odds, writing about what he truly enjoys, which has paid off for him in the end. If you have read any amount of King’s books, you can see a similarity in both tone and style. With over fifty works under his belt, including books, movie adaptations, and short stories, King has worked his way to the top, becoming one of his generation’s…

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there not In most of the stories in the book the majority of them of the are all different type of monsters. One of them is by Stephen King, and he thinks that we allow the monsters to get in our head by watching horror movies. Some people believe in vampires and they could be considered a “modern monster”.…

Alien is an original, extraordinary visual film that has the ability to terrorized moviegoing audiences by rather what they don’t see, combining the dread and fear of the unknown, and the idea that something is lurking just around the corner, waiting in the darkness made of pure evil. The film’s own tagline reads, “In space no one can hear you scream.” Is hauntingly fitting as the doomed space travelers are trapped aboard their own spaceship in uncharted space with a hostile alien stalking them.…

Peter Cornwell and written by Stephen King, is like an open book. It has potential and great music that intensifies the thrill as the scenes pass in the life of George B and his mystical grandmother. This is not like the average horror movie, blood and guts, but a horror movie that is categorized by its thrill. It has an everlasting thrill that will have one grasping to a pillow from the beginning to the end; however, the movie flies by so fast due to the amount of information put within an hour…

change how we are meant to think, this is nowhere more apparent than film. Music adds energy to stories and characters, it elevates a films sense of reality and enables us as the viewer to better connect with the visuals we see (Rona, 2000). Film is a visual medium that has been shaped by the soundtracks that adorn them. Since the days of silent films music has been the driving force when it comes to story, pace and the building of tension. The latter being particularly true when it came to…

exactly that in all his movies. Never did he once give his audience a break. Even if the movie is at a calm scene, he always makes something crazy happen to scare the audience right back in their seats. Alfred Hitchcock was able to create a new kind of horror film that was able to get into the audience 's minds and make them experience unforgettable suspense and fear; this is seen and mimicked in many films, that future directors would make after his iconic and legendary movies. Many of his…

Ferris talks to the viewers as if he’s known them his entire life. He continues to do this throughout the entire film, creating an intimate relationship between himself and the viewers while maintaining a good story and flow in the film itself. His monologues don’t in any way detract from the plot that is unfolding in front of us while Ferris narrates. This as well is a kind of emotional connection that you can’t find in other movies, you couldn’t stand if anything…

In the article “Spectacles of Death: Identification, Reflexivity, and Contemporary Horror,” Jeffrey Sconce compares two wildly different films (“Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” and “Freddy’s Dead”) as a way to explain how self-reflexivity and identification make the films all the more appealing to its demographic audience. In all films, the “enunciator” crafts a window of “psychological reality” where the spectator identifies with the visual field as a bona fide reality through the use of…

The allure of a scary movie comes from the thrilling and oddly addictive terror of the unknown. Watch your deepest fears on screen, and let your imagination run wild with these Netflix scary movies. “Sleepy Hollow” (1999) Scare scale: 6/10 This is a movie that’s based on Irving’s’ tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, in which Ichabod, played by Johnny Depp, is a NY detective who is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate multiple murders of people who are found headless in the woods.…