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    teens‚ Playland’s Halloween extravaganza includes 8 haunted houses‚ 20 scary rides‚ and live performances. This is great for people who really like a genuinely scary fun time. Don’t go alone! (Select nights‚ October 6 – 31). 2. Scary Movie Marathon: Horror movies are most fun when seen in groups and depending on your age and ability to withstand a good scare‚ this can

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    home at twelve o’clock in the morning watching a horror film‚ or encountering their one or many phobias. When fear hits‚ the body will start to feel as if it is frozen‚ breathing becomes difficult‚ the heart races and batters to the point where it feels like it will burst from their chest. So‚ just what in the world does the word fear truly mean? Well based on my own experiences with fear‚ I believe that it is the feeling of extreme anxiety or horror towards an object‚ a person‚ a place‚ an event in

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    genres‚ “horrors” have been altered and manipulated over time in order to coincide with the time period. With this being said‚ two films particularly enforce this post-modern “horror” and yet both contain an array of sub-genres‚ mutating “genre” into a more complex idea. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho along with Mary Harron’s American Psycho are both post-modern “horrors” with a collection of sub-genre’s attached to them‚ leading the audience to question the originally believed “horror” genre. Horror-fiction

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    The Landlady Horror stories are intended to scare‚ unsettle or horrify the reader. This year I have read a story written by Roal Dahl called “The Landlady”. In my opinion‚ this story is a great example of a horror fiction. “The Landlady” is a short story about a young insurance salesman called Billy Weaver‚ who travels to Bath on a business trip. He arrives to Bath in the evening and looks for accommodation. While walking to the Bell and Dragon‚ a hotel recommended by the porter of the train

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    There is no doubt that the barrage of horror movies over the years as caught the attention of humanity‚ young and old. Movies about monsters so inhuman so beastly that they make us shake with terror‚ but our minds spark with an interest that we didn’t even know we had. One such monster is the vampire. The vampire has been portrayed for centuries as a blood-sucking‚ soulless and ruthless killer. A vampire has no other desire than to obtain it’s most base desires. This being human blood. A vampire

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    Stephen King: The King of Horror “The most important things are the hardest to say‚ because words diminish them. Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Monsters are real‚ and ghosts are real too. They live inside us‚ and sometimes‚ they win.” Some of the many themes Stephen King has provided to his audience‚ King has a way of making his readers feel as though there isn’t any good left in the world. He creates stories that draw in his audience and keeps them turning the pages in anticipation to

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    “Many people define horror by its subjects. But we all know that horror covers more than these monsters‚” Sharon A. Russell said in her article “What is the Horror Genre?”. For a story to be considered horror‚ it needs to have many elements‚ like a spooky setting‚ and supernatural occurrence. Some stories just are not considered horror. “The Landlady”‚ by Roald Dahl‚ is not a horror story because the characters are important‚ the setting is not spooky‚ and nothing is supernatural. First‚ the character

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    the sound of tumbling boulders from the Raiders Of The Lost Ark‚ flooding the bodies of adventure-loving movie-goers with adrenaline. Horror films pay their tribute to the classic razor sharp‚ etching noise of strings from the movie Psycho‚ causing the immediate rise of dread and suspension. The director-composer duo responsible for the acclaimed “all-time best horror film” Psycho‚ Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann‚ had previously worked on many films together‚ already having a close professional

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    Getter Have you never felt a sudden rush of panic when you saw something scary pop out of nowhere in a Horror movie? Have you never squirmed in you seat at the theatre or even in your living room chair because you saw something that was unsettling on the screen? II. Need Step Of course you have. All of us have. Every one of us has been afraid or startled by something or someone in the Horror movie medium. But‚ why? What make us so afraid of the ghoulish things we see in those movies? Have

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    is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows the exploits of seven children as they are terrorized by an eponymous being‚ which exploits the fears and phobias of its victims in order to disguise itself while hunting its prey. "It" primarily appears in the form of a clown in order to attract its preferred prey of young children wikepideia many people don’t believe in fairytale but sometimes your biggest fear can become true even at a young he or an adult age because of

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