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    Horror Movies

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    We have all experienced those feelings we get when we sit down to watch a horror movie. We feel that little adrenaline rush when we see a character in a movie trying to escape a knife-wielding-psycho that is endlessly chasing them and we feel that jump out of your skin feeling when the evil guy suddenly pops into the scene from out of nowhere. Then the movie ends‚ you sigh a breath of relief that it’s over and there is nothing to be scared of. But did you know that there are a few movies out there

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    The Horrors of Poe

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    In the early 1800s‚ Edgar Allan Poe introduced a new type of literature to the United States. He introduced gothic horror and other horror stories to the US. His stories inspired many to write new literature like Stephen King and many others. His entire career had shaped created a new style unknown to the US. Poe creates an atmosphere of horror with plot‚ setting and internal dialogue. One way Poe puts fear into the readers is his use of internal dialogue. In the story “The Tell-Tale Heart”‚ the

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    Horror in the Maing

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    Changes in the Genre THE HORROR GENRE HAS DEVELOPED OVER TIME The types of content being presented in films has changed significantly over time as a result of advances in technology and changes in society. The horror genre is one of the oldest ones‚ dating back to the early 1920s. From day one to around the 1960s horror films were almost always just about your typical horror monsters- Count Dracula‚ the Frankenstein Monster‚ Mummies and occasionally zombies- notable such films including Nosferatu

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    The Horror Genre

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    one 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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    Horror Story

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    Maya Zelaya Hour 6 10/30/12 King’s Horror Dark and cold‚ those were the two words that described the room. The only illumination was from the faint moon‚ a tempting ghost for a young and anxious soul. The room‚ though‚ held two souls‚ was accompanied by the lingering smell of pepperoni from a pizza. One of the souls was resting on the wood floor of the room and the panels creaked beneath his body as he shifted in his dreams. Although‚ creaking of the flooring was not the only thing to be heard

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    Horror Movies

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    We Crave Horror Movies" by Stephen King examines the popular trend of attending horror films and he explains several explanations for this craving behavior. King claims that attending these gory films is not just a trend; he believes that it is a necessity. As a result‚ King claims that we need/crave horror movies for various basic reasons. First‚ he suggest we need to view these horror films to fulfill our basic need for entertainment and excitement. Also‚ we need to view these horror films to

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    Horror and Thriller

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    the edge of your seat‚ but a horror move pushes you past that and scares the heck out of you. Horror usually has more gore‚ and the villain generally escapes to scare you in the sequel. Horror movies usually feature ’overkill’ and are usually further outside the range of probable than movies of the Thriller genre. They’re usually aimed at frightening the viewer rather than exploring why a particular phenomena exists. For example‚ in the case of a serial killer‚ a Horror will feature multiple victims

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    Psychological Horror

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    Psychological Horror Genres of psychological horror are stories or movies that fall under the view of horror that include a few essential elements: a villain or one seen as evil to create an initial story line. The foil is the next element; a foil is a person who tries to stop the villain from going through with the evil plan or plot. These two elements naturally lead to conflict between the two persons or groups and then from this conflict – suspense‚ the last element is added. Suspense is

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    Paradox Of Horror

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    KATERINA BANTINAKI The Paradox of Horror: Fear as a Positive Emotion With its roots in the English gothic novel of the eighteenth century and a body of work that spreads across different media‚ the horror genre has persisted in art for more than a century‚ gaining gradual popularity among audiences. Its success has been particularly pronounced in cinema‚ where horror films like The Exorcist‚ Jaws‚ Alien‚ Silence of the Lambs‚ and numerous others rank among the major box office hits in cinematic

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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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