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    the horror in movies

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    The Horror in Movies Life is full of common and expected but yet‚ very frightening situations‚ events‚ or circumstances such as natural disasters‚ wild animal attacks‚ been aggravated by violent individuals‚ strange and chronicle illness or situations that threaten the safety or people’s life. There are also other events that rarely occur in people’s lives but are even more frightening because there are mysterious and dark beings involved. Humans know very little about these entities and the

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    Children in Horror

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    consider the role that kids have played in the horror genre. Other groups have fairly consistent‚ even ritualized roles in films. Men as antagonists are usually the threat of aggressive male sexuality‚ wielding phallic weaponry and chasing down hapless female victims. Women are either the sexualized teenaged victim‚ the virginal survivor‚ or in some classic horror‚ the threat of female social and sexual empowerment to male hegemony. But children in horror movies have not had such a stable role. There

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    horror conventions

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    by Samuel Bayer are both classified as being in the horror genre. Directors use specific Narrative conventions such as the soundtrack‚ special effects and the monster itself to create suspense and fear within the film. Horror films have progressed over time to offer more conventions to make the films more thrilling to the audience. The sound track played in the film Nightmare on Elm Street differs only slightly to Jeepers Creepers. In horror films the sound track tends to include suspense building

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    The Horror Genre

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    of the top rated horror movies of 2016? The horror genre is a genre that seeks the fear of viewers or readers by capering with ones intuition. The two types of horror are supernatural and parallel. These horror genres can have demons‚ghost‚unknown creatures‚suspense‚mystery‚murder‚zombies‚insanity‚internal/external forces‚vampires or just anything that is out of the norm.These are just some basic figures and elements that can be put in a horror story.Two examples of horror stories are “The Monkey’s

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    The Amityville Horror

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    The Amityville horror is my chosen topic which I am going to write about for my report. I have chosen this particular topic as the field of criminology is one I find really interesting and hope to study it further at university. I have recently seen the film of the ‘Amityville Horror’ and found it intriguing so I thought I would study it further. In this report I intend to cover ‘the murderer’‚ ‘the murder’ and the theory behind the crime. Ronald Defeo JR was born and raised in Brookln. He

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    horror movies

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    Why Horror Films Rule the World? More and more horror seekers are willing to line up to buy tickets for a scary movie and sit in the front of the screen to watch with blood and terror‚ all to enjoy the intense experience of being afraid. Scary films provide a terrifying experience of fear in many moviegoers; however‚ not everyone is willing to take time to enjoy the feeling of being scared and such‚ instead viewers reject horror movies because they do not want to spend money to feel afraid‚ threatened

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    Horror is a film genre intended to receive a negative emotional response from the audience. Comedy‚ on the other hand is intended to make the audience laugh. Horror films and comedy films‚ both attract sizable audiences every year; beside the simple fact that horror films were produced to scare people‚ and comedy films were produced to make people laugh‚ both genres share plenty of differences‚ but also some similarities. Horror films are those known to create fear by depicting gore‚ ghosts‚ killers

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    However‚ is being afraid always a bad thing? Given people’s high demand for horror these days‚ this would turn this problem into a paradox‚ creating some room for pleasure within horror’s spooky content. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the reasons why some people like horror‚ despite its repulsive features. My argument will be based on the idea that people like horror because of the curiosity it awakens and also because horror films allow us to believe in the existence of unnatural beings‚ like

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    Amityville Horror

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    The Amityville Horror has turned from a real suburban American tragedy into a horrific myth. It has become the source of bestselling novels and the subject of several movies. These are some of the facts as they are known. On November 13‚ 1974‚ in the house at 112 Ocean Ave.‚ Amityville‚ 24-year-old Ronald DeFeo murdered his family. DeFeo used a high-powered rifle‚ shot to death his father‚ mother‚ two brothers and two sisters. All six members of Ronald DeFeo’s family were killed as they slept

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    Horror Trailer Evaluation

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    that are similar to yours in any way. what are the similarities? 5. What are some of the key characteristic effects of horror that you wanted to incorporate into your trailer: Clue ... psychological effect on audience /  creating fear / adrenalin / tension - mention teen brain 6. According to the Uses and gratifications theory? What are the pleasures available to the horror audience? Clue ... diversion = escape from normal life thrills such as fear identity - you find out about yourself‚ as an

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