Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Acronyms, Idioms, Wikipedia. horror horror or horror story, literary genre in which an eerie, tense, often suspenseful atmosphere typically builds to the discovery of something repugnant, such as cannibalism, incest, or the killing of children, or ...
In typical entertainment industry progression, several horror films were so memorable that they spawned video games. In fact, there have been “horror-movie-to-game” adaptations since the release of the Atari 2600 in the lat 70s to early 80s! Although the early horror games accomplished little ...
So, in a nutshell, the very best advice I can offer you would be to read upon the accepted traditions of cinematography, then watch a lot of films, contemplating that which the cinematography conveys in relation to what’s happening with the plot, characters, and themes of the film. What ...
Notes on a radical tradition: subversive ideological applications in the Hammer horror films Not to leave upper management out of the "bad guy" loop, this story based on an old EC horror comic features William Rogers as a former army major who becomes administrator of a home for the blind....
File this under "nothing I do is actually that quirky" (see also: findingAdam Driverattractive). It turns outI'm not the only one experiencing horror films through safer means. My medium of choice has long been Wikipedia plot synopses, but that's just the gateway to a w...
Talk To Me(2023) One of the most celebrated recent horror filmsby A24,Talk To Meis truly terrifying — like scarring. A group of kids stumble upon an embalmed hand that they discover allows them to interact with the supernatural. Turning the activity into a kind of thrill-seeking game, ...
The films were often low budget, and less realistic special effects combined with strict broadcast standards kept the movies from being too terribly frightening, so it all became something of a family tradition, and one I've cherished throughout my life.These programs hit their peak in the ...
Having seen a lot of vampire films I probably expected brain candy, instead we were confronted a subtle, yet intensely powerful, coming-of-age narrative in which the monsters of the narrative are not always clear. I was working with Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of “ideological becoming” and ...
Robert Poyton joins us to discuss Gustave Flaubert’s “Salammbô”, October horror films, the etymology of Hygaxian words, Howardian prose, varied treasures, the French “oh là là”, the literary influences of Clark Ashton Smith, the diversity of intersecting cultures in North Africa, Afri...
Certainly classic films by masters of the genre, but they did not originate the horror movie. There is, of course, F.W. Murnau’s terrifying silent Nosferatu from 1922 (and the real life horror of its deceased director’s miss...