Essays on Horror

This post contains full spoilers for Silent Hill 2. If you have somehow still not played through it then rectify that immediately and then return here. October is here dear readers; the month that everyone’s minds begin drifting towards the slew of horror games on…

Genre is the type or category of a media product. Each genre has its own set of codes and conventions that are recognisable to audiences. They are what place the product in that particular genre. Fowler argues that the audiences learn these conventions overtime through…

Horror is a genre that has startled our psychological thoughts and frightened us for centuries. The author allows the readers to embrace themselves in another reality with a horrific twist to leave the readers trembling with fear. Like a lot of other genres, the author…

Edward Munch’s painting looks as if it’s a scene from a horror film. One of his most famous paintings, The Scream, is a well known painting for the amount of expression given in just a single piece of artwork. The main image shown in the…

How does Algernon Blackwood use the conventions of Gothic Horror to create a sense of fear and horror in “The Kit Bag”? INTRODUCTION Gothic Horror is a genre which tries to create a sense of fear and horror in the reader. Writers of gothic horror…

Silence of the Lambs is a movie released in 1991 whereby the major casts are a new student detective (Clarice) with a psychology background following in her deceased father’s footsteps in law enforcement, and a serial killer (Hannibal the Cannibal) who is helping aid her…

Viewed as a great post-911 horror film Drew Goddard’s Cloverfield (2008) is a great representation of what horror films became post the September 11th attacks from 2001. The film contains scenes similar to those taken place during the 9/11 attacks, where two planes crashed the…

High On War In his journalism book Dispatches, Michael Herr develops his coverage of the war by writing in a discontinuous manner to reflect how he experienced it, employing his perspectives through dreams, drugs, and war scenes. Each are filled with their own torment but…

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 cliché kiss. In the horror genre, when there is a happy ending, it would…

The movie poster I have selected is from the film Insidious Chapter 2. The film’s releasedate was set for September 13th which fell on a Friday also cleverly referred to as Friday the 13th .The date serves multiple purposes when it comes to this poster….

The recently published novel, in May 2018, by Stephen King, The Outsider does not disappoint. The book includes all the qualities that should be in a horror novel. Ralph Anderson is about to arrest Terry Maitland and put him on death row for the murder…

“It drives you crazy, doesn’t it? To be the smartest person in the room with no real power because of that smelly clam between your legs. ” (season 2, episode 2) This is arguably the best line in the whole season of American Horror Story:…

In “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” Stephen King claims that everyone has monstrous inclinations, and horror movies allow viewers to purge the negativity without consequence. According to King, everyone has internal dark desires that should not be acted upon. Rarely are these urges as awful…

Horror Fiction Horror is in many ways a unique genre. It has the ability to make us feel frightened, disgusted and fascinated at the same time. During an intense scene in a horror movie or book you often feel tempted to look away, but at…

A fear or paranoia of pain, vulnerability and death, the feeling that someone is watching you, the feeling that your life is in jeopardy. Aesthetic horror is the same feeling as horror but through what we see. It is similar to horror because it is…