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    Created by Ryan Murphy and written by American broadcaster Fox‚ Scream Queens is the new horror comedy dripping in death and diamantes. The show has already began to gain a cult following here in the UK. With the first episode of the series airing the week of Halloween‚ it set the tacky tone of terror quite nicely. Based on the 20th anniversary of a 1995 sorority pledge which went very‚ very wrong‚ Wallace University campus is rattled by a series of murders. Kappa House is the most sought-after

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    All of the very base elements of horror are certainly still present inThe Shining. There is a villain‚ who (or that) is out to destroy someone (it is arguable whether the hotel wants to destroy Jack or his family‚ or both). There is certainly a supernatural element‚ made all the more intriguing by the mention of the Indian burial ground‚ and the ambiguous ghostly ending. Kubrick even alludes to the supernatural or ghost element through his use of cutting. When Stuart Ullman (Barry Nelson) and Bill

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    Andiswe lures men from nightclubs for organ harvesting but Matthew ends up killing them and having sex with the dead bodies so the mood of our movie is scary SOUNDSCAPE Soundscape is the space in which characters live Night shift being a horror the sound is supposed to bring out the scary element‚ tension and fear. Through sound we have to bring out Andiswe’s fear‚ tension‚ pain as well as Matthew’s beasty nature. The sound has to evoke the audience’s emotions of tension and suspense. Music plays

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    combination of different genres. In this article the focus is on only three main genres: Comedy‚ Horror and Action. One of the main and most popular genres is “comedy”. A comedy movie is intended to make the audience laugh and contains comical events or funny dialogues. Comedy is considered as an open genre because it contains many different subgenres such as Comedy of manners‚ Parody‚ Romantic comedy and Comedy horror (which contains Black comedy and Zombie comedy). Comedy of manners satirizes manners and

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    importantly‚i’m trying to tell you that they should bring out edger allen poe’s great stories. In my opinion‚another reason is because people like the thrill of horror. People around everywhere like horror stories. Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are mainly about horror. He wrote lots of them for example “the raven” is one of his stories.we also watched many horror stories that kill like “the purge” or either “jeeper creepers”.What i’m trying to tell you is that Tell Tale Heart is not a bad book. Tell Tale Heart

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    Supernatural Films Horror has been one of the most popular categories of films in the movie industry. Horror movies are divided into genres with different subgenres. Horror movies are defined by the emotional status of the person focusing on people darkest secrets and fears in relation to other genres such as science fiction or crime films that are defined by setting and narrative context (pdf). However‚ the problem with most horror movies is that disgust and fear can be interchangeable. Horror movies evokes

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    depth about the aspect of horror and gothic. The film starts off with the mother‚ Grace‚ screaming when she woke up. Many things went through my head when that happened. As I thought about it more and more after the movie‚ I began to think that Grace woke up after killing herself and her 2 children. After she woke up‚ they began to tell the story of how they got to the end‚ where they are all dead. Something in the movie that really interested me was the psychological horror involved in the film. Psychological

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    fun of zombie movies‚ it also kept the elements that made any zombie films as scary and disgusting as it could be. Watching Shaun of the Dead‚ I didn’t see anything that could have ruined the film in the parody horror genre that it is. I think it kept every aspect with the focus of horror to scare the viewers‚ while making them laugh at the same time. Scene example of mockery: One of the best scenes to me is when Shaun and his friend Ed finds out the first time that they were dealing with zombies

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    When dozen of people are asked what makes a good horror film‚ their answers will most likely vary. While some may claim that a horror film needs to be scary and intense‚ others may claim that a horror film needs to have special effects and illusions. Despite the multitude of varying horror film traits‚ one thing is certain‚ these traits are what allow makes horror films so spooky. In one of George Melies’s film‚ The Trip To The Moon‚ there were many examples of it being scary and having crazy cool

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    instantly by considering different criteria: their physical effect‚ setting‚ and target audience. Williams (2003‚ as cited in Grant‚ 2007) stated that melodrama‚ horror‚ and porn are “body genres” because they all have certain effects on human physical state. As explained by Grant (2007)‚ melodrama can make audiences cry by exagerated tragedies; horror can elicit screams‚ chills‚ goosebump‚ sweating‚ and other symptoms of fear; and porn can cause arousal. Whitlock (2011) pointed out that some kinds of melodramatic

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