Horror films
Pleasures of the Spectatorium: young people, classrooms and horror films
... So their reception of it is a mixture of puzzlement (Nicky's face) and the confident performative readings of the semiotics of popular horror we've seen in response to the earlier tr[r] ...
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What do we do with vacant space in horror films?
... a horror film and not an arty classic, such as Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg 1973), but a fairly typical example of the low-genre productions that emerged from Italy in the mid- twentieth century, which were ...
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The children's horror film : characterizing an 'impossible' subgenre
... and horror might be key attractions and elements of horror for children, some children’s horror films operate principally on a subtler form of horror where what is most frightening or ...
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The feminine appeal of British horror cinema
... this horror film is that it is about women, for women, where the séances function as a space for women to explore ...Similarly, films such as Bunny Lake is Missing, The Innocents and Night of the Eagle ...
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Asian Horror: The Factors Driving Thai And Japanese Horror Film Industry: An Analysis Towards Ringu (1998) And Shutter (2004)
... Thai films to the filmmakers‟ ability to present horror as a combination of natural and supernatural ...(2011), horror films in Asia also act as representations of the local citizens‟ ...
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A brutalized culture : the horror genre in contemporary Irish literature
... some horror films are not subversive—the monster might be a little more disgusting than we can easily accept, or the monster might not be killed off at the ...with horror as long as we can see the ...
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Uncanny behaviour in survival horror games
... a horror game soundscape that ‘operates within a framework of uncertainty that constantly holds the player between knowledge and ...survival horror games borrows many of the conventions and clichés of ...
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Murder Music: Horror Film Soundtracks Throughout History
... for horror movies, we can understand how the composers of the generations afterward were influenced in their ...earliest horror movies to hold mainstream success were created during the silent ...other ...
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Yuletide terror: Christmas horror on film and television Indiegogo campaign
... Paul: Forget about a substitute, the idea of Santa itself is pretty terrifying when you think about it. Here’s a total stranger who, late at night when you’re sleeping, sneaks into your house down the chimney, eats your ...
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Drink Full and Descend: The Horror of Twin Peaks: Season Three
... of horror that is deeper than mere thrills and ...the horror films of that period. This form of horror, which expresses states of cosmic imbalance as well as personal trauma, continues in ...
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Survival horror games - an uncanny modality
... conceptual peculiarity for the viewer, thus setting them apart from other horror films. Frankenstein was proclaimed by critics as ―timeless‖, with a visual icon for a character that continues to endure (p. ...
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Does Anyone Really Like Horror Movies? Personality and Automatic Affective Reactions to Frightening Films
... of horror, and was admittedly limited in its ability to illuminate the underlying processes ...of horror films, provide a unique insight into why people like what they ...of horror movie ...
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Green Horror: The Use of Environmental Themes in Modern American Horror Cinema
... green horror films reviewed show that this subgenre of eco-horror has established itself as a dominant theme in the contemporary American horror scene and as such has covered significant ...
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Article The Horror of the Anthropocene
... full horror of his situation, to accept ‘that there is nothing to be done, that there is no cure to hand, no more story to tell, no deus ex machina, no statement that It Was All a Dream’ (Clute, 2014: ...of ...
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Horror, dread, awe and disgust: revisiting Durkheim and place
... 10 symbolises horror, dread and in some cases death. Using empirical evidence from secondary data on ritual discourse at Gallipoli, it was shown through Hertz’s (1960[1909]) discussion that both the pure and ...
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“Horror, guilt and shame” - Uncomfortable Experiences in Digital Games
... The first theme is focused on the different ways in which games utilize uncertainty to apply persistent or repeated forms of pressure on players. The dominant emotions reported in relation to this theme were fear and ...
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Something Wyrd: Folk Horror, Folklore and British Television
... folk horror can be observed extending beyond boundaries of genre and medium to include science fiction, fantasy, television plays, television series and even public information ...'folk horror' does not ...
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Death, disintegration of the body and subjectivity in the contemporary horror film
... SUMMARY This thesis is an attempt to account for the contemporary American horror film's increased reliance upon images of bodily dismemberment and decay.At the core of this exploration [r] ...
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Playing with Fear: The Aesthetics of Horror in Recent Indie Games
... As helpful as Garda and Grabarczyk’s reconstruction of the discourse surrounding the term “indie game” certainly is, though, this focus on nostalgic “retro style” as a core element of indie aesthetics seems quite narrow. ...
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The audio Uncanny Valley: Sound, fear and the horror game
... the horror computer ...the horror computer game, that both sets of authors choose to report or use terms such as „zombie‟ or „brain- damaged‟ when talking of a mismatch of ...
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