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Families Reviews About Horror Movies (644 words, 1 pages)

Going over the same ground as the original 1975 cult classic and its many derivative offspring, this "Amityville Horror" provides enough of a shiver for novice horror fans to guarantee an opening-weekend audience but, for more well-versed fans of the genre, will feel like a redundant round of recycling. The ... Read More

A Paper on the Creature in Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein (729 words, 1 pages)

'All things truly wicked start from an innocence.' Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) The Creature was not born evil. Nor was his corruption his fault. He was born innocent, without fault or sin. The Creature was turned to a Monster after he learned of humanity, and what a cold, cruel thing it ... Read More

The Horrors of Nazi Germany in World War II (3134 words, 5 pages)

NAZI In December 1929, the German government faced a total financial crisis, facing a short fall of 1.5 billion marks in anticipated revenues. It occurred then that the world would lie in darkness, where deaths would override births dramatically, and where the lives of those of a different race, those ... Read More

Brandon Cook’s Paper on Frankenstein and Its Hollywood Adaptations (670 words, 1 pages)

Brandon Cook Humn 33XX 23 April 2002 Frankenstein vs. Hollywood The creature in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein is probably the most well-known horror creature in Western civilization. If one even mentions the name of Frankenstein, many people immediately picture the monster in their head. This is undeniably a direct effect of ... Read More

Edgar Allan Poe: A Master of Horror (1081 words, 2 pages)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Written and Contributed by SUGABUGA456 Edgar Allan Poe was one of Americas famous poets, fiction short-story writers, and literary critics. He is known as the first master of short story form especially in tales of horror, and mystery. The work he produced was considered to be ... Read More

A Report on Alligators: Magnificent Creatures of Our Planet (784 words, 2 pages)

This paper will discuss alligators. It will cover kinds of alligators, their habitat, their food and hunting, breeding, the value of their meat and skin, and the dangers of an alligator. There are two kinds of alligators. The first kind of alligator there is, is the Alligator Mississippiensis or the ... Read More

The Horrors of the European Colonization of Africa (472 words, 1 pages)

The European colonization of the continent of Africa was horrible for the African people, and led the way for their race to be discriminated against for many years to come. Each country in Europe wanted to be part of the imperialistic race, and this led to the decimation of many ... Read More

The Horrors of the Holocaust (509 words, 2 pages)

In 1942, the night was tranquil while all of Europe was soundly asleep, nave a lingering horror. Then, like the crack of lightning, lives were shattered as Germans burst into the homes of the Jewish people, stripping them from their peaceful lives and forcing them into existences of constant terror. ... Read More

Vampires and the Horror Genre (1191 words, 3 pages)

The horror genre aims to achieve fear, panic, and alarm to the audience. It is important in this genre to leave your audience in suspense. Thats why the horror genre is so popular because people like the thrill of being scared. The vampire sub-genre is all about undead creatures who ... Read More

Why Are Horror Movies so Appealing to the Human Mind? (492 words, 2 pages)

Stephen Kings essay, Why We Crave Horror Movies, lays out an empowering argument to explain why horror movies are so appealing to the human mind. After reading Kings essay, I have to agree with him that I am insane and to love horror movies. Kings statement, I think that were ... Read More

Why Do People Crave Horror Movies? (413 words, 1 pages)

Stephen Kings article Why We Crave Horror Movies is an enjoyable read. King discusses how some crave a horror movie and others could not imagine. How people must be slightly insane to want to watch a horror movie, and how others let their crazy out in other diverse ways. Most ... Read More

An Analysis of The Exorcist, a New Paradigm for Horror Films (1182 words, 4 pages)

ParadigmThe Exorcist is a timeless classic directed by William Friedkin, based on the novel by William Peter Blatty holding the same name. The film starts with Father Merrin in the Middle East, contemplating a demon he had beaten in the past through exorcism. There is a cut to a simple ... Read More

A Short Review of the Horror Genre in America (2245 words, 9 pages)

Diagnosing Crazy Inside the Minds of Those Who Like HorrorThe demented cannibal slithers out of his blood-stained cage, methodically murdering anyone who dares to step in his way. The emotionally damaged woman tasked with tracking down and capturing the cannibal is hot on his trail, but he continues to give ... Read More

The Different Qualities of a Horror Movie Genre (963 words, 4 pages)

Introduction A genre is basically a kind or a stylistic category of an artisticpiece of work. In movies, it refers to the categories in which the movie inquestion falls under and it has to develop in a specified way for exampleit must have the attributes of say horror, science fiction, ... Read More

The Different Characteristics of a Horror Film (1891 words, 7 pages)

If someone is asked the question, What does a happy ending look like in a film?, most would more than likely imagine bright colors, happy faces, and maybe even the usual clich kiss. In the horror genre, when there is a happy ending, it would always appear somewhat bloody, gory, ... Read More

The Appealing Characteristics of the Horror Genre (836 words, 3 pages)

Before researching the psychological appeal of the horror genre, I had only viewed the horror genre in cinema as something I enjoyed because I wanted to be frightened and never thought much afterwards. Upon researching the topic, Ive found out many things as to what makes the genre so pleasing ... Read More

A Personal Reflection on the Horrors of the Holocaust (760 words, 3 pages)

The Final Solution to the Jewish QuestionDiscussions of strategies, operations, and warfare aside, this class has been hard to sit through. Throughout middle school and high school, the Holocaust is taught practically every year. Though it may sound insensitive, when you do not learn the realities of such a horror, ... Read More

The Doppelganger Motif in the Characters of Victor and the Creature in Frankenstein, a Novel by Mary Shelley (1456 words, 5 pages)

The Dopplegnger Motif as Demonstrated in Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus The Dopplegnger Motif, as demonstrated in Romantic and Gothic literature, allows a character, to be split into two non-literal halves. This concept is usually manifested through the hero and can be shared with a multitude of characters. It is used ... Read More

A Review of the Canticle of Creatures, a Composition by St. Francis of Assisi (498 words, 2 pages)

A Lifetime of Being Inferior Cant(icle) Hurt The Canticle of the Creatures transcend the values and beliefs of Saint Francis. He writes a story compiling many aspects of nature while assigning them to a gender. Some of these assignments correlate with aspects of how that gender acts today. The relationship ... Read More

The Captivity of Killer Whales and Its Detrimental Effects on the Creatures (4935 words, 16 pages)

To what extent does captivity have a detrimental effect on killer whales?This refers to explicitly listing specific aspects of orca life, identifying the contrast of these whales in and out of captivity, and therefore to understand and interpret what extent these aspects have on their mental state. This also refers ... Read More

The Controversial Topic of Owning Exotic Creatures as Personal Pets (1130 words, 4 pages)

Humanity has always had a particular relation with what is viewed as exotic from the time frame where anglo-saxons maintained zoos for individuals of dark skin to the period of the 1800s, where elephants were highly desired as personal pets, kept for pleasure, there has been the controversial topic of ... Read More

The Human Fondness for Horror Movies (504 words, 2 pages)

The Art of MacabreIn reading Stephen Kings work on our craving for horror movies as a deep seeded desire for seeing violence, hate, and the menacing of others, an alarming number of agreeable points were made. Each paragraph and every sentence is well condensed into a work that analyzes the ... Read More

The Horrors of War in Slaughterhouse-Five, a Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (891 words, 4 pages)

The Destructiveness of WarWar not only destroys buildings and kills many people, but also gives a tremendous impact on the rest of the world and the people who had to endure the journey. In Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut best demonstrates this by the bombing of Dresden, Billys interactions with the Tralfamadorians, and ... Read More

A History of the Horrors of the Black Death in Europe (1086 words, 4 pages)

The bubonic plague also known as Black Death was an epidemic that spread throughout Europe. It was known as the black death due to the color of ones infected skin and tumors. This plague was the worst epidemics in history and it spread from Mongolia to Europe when a Genoese ... Read More

Genuine Peace and Friendship from the Creatures in Walden, a Book by Henry David Thoreau (1281 words, 7 pages)

Snakes and Other Creatures in Thoreaus WaldenIn Walden Pond, Thoreau certainly describes animals from an observatory standpoint more so than an integrated standpoint. While Thoreau does seem to gain genuine peace and friendship from the creatures around him, it is more apparent that they serve as representations of his relationships ... Read More

The Role of Horror Elements in Shaping the Beloved Holiday of Halloween (378 words, 2 pages)

Halloween is one of the spookiest and most intriguing of the holidays that is celebrated in western countries, with traditional oddities such as dressing up in costumes, going door-to-door asking for candy, and scaring ourselves with horror movies and haunted houses. An all-around celebration in everything dark and scary. But ... Read More

A Review of The Strangers, a Horror Film by Bryan Bertino (378 words, 3 pages)

The Strangers Movie ReviewThe Strangers, directed and written by Bryan Bertino, is a movie about a young couple (Liv Taylor and Scott Speedman) terrorized by three strangers in an isolated cabin. The movie begins with some great cut scenes of the aftermath of the brutality that takes place during the ... Read More

The Elements of Horror in Beowulf and Dracula (893 words, 4 pages)

In the modern day, we as horror genre fanatics dont think about what makes a good horror story. We simply watch or read for the pleasure of being frightened and simply blame the villain for making it horrifying. We dont consider the elements of horror within the medium in which ... Read More

An Analysis of the Series American Horror Story (1594 words, 5 pages)

American Horror StoryAmerican Horror Story has become a very popular television series over the past few years. Since its release in 2011, the show has proven that a gothic television series can become a great blockbuster hit. For various reasons, American Horror Story has accumulated a large and intense fan ... Read More

A Comparison between the Psychological Horror Film Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock and the Black Comedy-Horror Film American Psycho by Mary Harron (2238 words, 8 pages)

Just a Couple of Psychos An EssayI decided to do my final film review on Hitchcocks classic thriller Psycho, and the 2000 thriller, American Psycho. I chose these films because they both focus on characters that have mental problems that lead to them having killer tendencies, and they both fit ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013