The Movie Scream

Both Stephen King and Chuck Klosterman believe that many people watch horror movies for the thrill and excitement, however Klosterman uses horror movies as a metaphor while King uses horror movies as a sense of relief. Horror movies have always been such a popular genre that people watch. The horror genre is one of the top genres to watch other than comedy and romance. Many people may enjoy horror movies, while many others may not enjoy horror movies. Horror movies are always so intense and suspenseful, the music slowly playing in the background making you more anxious for that one scene that is about to scare you out of your chair. You know you’re

Perras is a Mexican drama film directed by Guillermo Díaz on 2011. It’s based on a play with the same name.

Jennifer’s Body, to some people, can be looked at as a joke or as a film that slightly changed the horror genre with its different way of story telling . This film took certain tropes and flipped them in order to make the audience think differently about how women are portrayed in horror films. It is very common in horror films to see a woman as a damsel in distress or as the final girl that somehow survives the mass killing. However, there are classic tropes that are inserted in this film like the pretty girl has a best friend that is less pretty than her. Their friendship is put to the test when something strange happens to Jennifer because her sexuality was questioned and she becomes a hot demonic creature. Jennifer’s Body can be seen agreeing with the statement that female sexuality is monstrous by how the female characters become fleshed out

The family is a bizarre institution. Families are where we receive our cultural education, learn to walk, and internalize the rules of the world. At the same time, families are where we receive trauma that leaves us with dysfunctional personalities traits and maladaptive behaviors. The family at its core is where we are initiated into the best and the most brutal of what humanity has to offer. The Eastwood family in the film Crucible of Horror is a prime example of the nihilistic potentiality of the family institution.

In the excerpt, “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” written by Stephen King, he argues that that we all have a little bit of insanity in all of us, and we all express it in different ways, from the chills to the guilty pleasure. It’s like we are attracted to horror movies, but we never really knew it. So, King uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to support the allure of horror movies. He uses these strategies to describe what horror movies make us feel like and it’s impressive.

People watch scary movies to feel normal, but some feel odd for enjoying those type of movies. Many people enjoy watching scary movies, others like to think that they shouldn’t watch them because they think they’ll be outcasts from their friends. People want to be frightened, they want what they wath to affect them in some way. Some scenes

When vieweing horror media, there are many different techniques used to build the suspense. The technique of using artistic elements is used greatly when creating a suspsenseful mood. This technique is especially used iin “If Cornered, scream” and in “Lights Out.” In “If Cornered, scream” Thurmond uses the act of foreshadowing events to develop the mood. However, Sandberg uses sound effects to build the mood, in “Lights Out”. In “If Cornered, scream” when the protaginist is dricing home from the mental institute she reviews the safety lectures given to the nurses, every night she drives home. These actions by the nurse leaves the reader feel suspcious and unsure of the story. “Each night during the drive home, she relieved the safety lectures

In some of my favorite films, I like the use of horror because it makes the story interesting and mysterious by creating an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust. In

“I never had a brain until Freak came along.” This is a quote from Max who is one of the main characters in Freak the Mighty. The two main characters in Freak the Mighty are Max and Kevin. Kevin is also known as Freak. Max is a boy who isn’t very smart but is very tall and strong. Unlike Max, Freak is a boy who is physically disabled and has trouble walking. Freak is very intelligent. In the story when Max and Freak are together Max usually carries Freak on his shoulders. In the exhilarating novel “Freak the Mighty”, the author Rodman Philbrick uses plot and conflict to express one of the books themes, mental and physical forces can work together. Throughout the story Max and Freak use their differences to get themselves out of many different

Can there be any good if there is no evil? No. Similarly enough, can there be a hero if there is no anti-hero? These anti-heroes, or villains, are one of the many examples used in almost any piece of fiction. These examples are also known as archetypes. Archetypes are a group of categories that are used to show a typical kind of character in a story. Each archetype has certain qualities a character must have in order to embody the archetype. The shadow, for instance, is the archetype of the typical villain. The shadow is a critical archetype for any story, especially in the myth of Demeter and Persephone, the story of Oiwa, as well as the movie Scream 4.

As a child, I always wanted to scare other people by creating my own haunting fantasies. Now that I’ve matured, I face nastier creations compared to my juvenile stories. Although frightening, I develop a craving when watching horror. I face some of my fears that develop while watching horror, I redevelop my average self, and experience a different kind of fun. All it is is the dark side of our Human Condition. These childhood experiences supports the claims that Stephen King made in his essay, “Why We Crave Horror”. Stephen King claims that humans crave horror to face our fears, to re-establish our feelings of normalcy, and to experience a peculiar sort of fun due to our human condition.

Like, when Malcolm is seen communicating with his wife at their room with the window open. Here we can observe that there is an amusing use of camera angle to present the interaction between the one living and another dead person. Interestingly, both are unknown about their realties. The symbol of the open window also can be represented as Malcolm is ready to leave for the other world. Also, there is a rich use of varieties of colors in the movie. Like, we can see that the use of red and black color adds suspense and thriller elements in the movie. Mostly, the characters in the movie can be seen wearing red color dress and when Cole gets thrilling experiences of ghost it is mostly shown under the red light. Some of the scene of darkness and low-light are also shown to further thrill the viewers. Mostly the picture of fear and terror can be seen through Cole's eyes. In most of the part of the film he can be seen scared and nervous. He is shown to be communicating mostly with the dead peoples and also, he is sandwiched between reality and fiction too. Even though this movie belongs to the horror genre and suspicious drama, it has kept its screenplay with in the boundary and limitations. Cole, who is a major child character in the film is the center of attraction for the viewer's due to his both intelligence and innocent portrayal in the movie. A camera work during the (50:38 minutes) of the movie where

In the introduction to Kendall Phillips’ book, “Projected Fears,” he discusses “horror films that made such an impression on American culture that they became instantly recognizable and, indeed, redefined the notion of what a horror film is.” (Phillips 3). This list of movies includes many favorites, such as Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Scream. Phillips later states his thesis, “...my argument in this book is that these [movies] are the most ‘successful’ and ‘influential’ in American history and that their level of success and influence can be correlated to broader cultural anxieties into which they somehow tapped” (Phillips 3). These movies on this list mimic real-life fears and allow some viewers to find catharsis in the mimicry.

The story of The Haunting of Hill House is a horror classic. The book and movie depict this terrifying story in vastly different ways. The movie uses cinematic techniques that a book can not portray: music, acting, and props. The book uses imagery, internal monologue, and suspense to peak fear in the readers. Movies are a different way of portraying a story, but movies aren’t always able to depict everything in the book. The movie depiction is able to elicit fear through cinematic techniques, and the novel uses fear in a different way than the movie which is more effective in frightening the reader.