Bad Physics In Wes Craven's Scream

In 1959 Miss Jackson wrote a novel called The Haunting of Hill House. In 1963 it was made into a film called The Haunting, starring Julie Harris and Claire Bloom. In this story a group of researchers gather at an old estate house as part of a psychic investigaqtion to see if the building is haunted. One of the women invited to participate on the project because of her sensitivity to the supernatural becomes obsessed with or possessed by the house.

“Who you gonna call ?” In this 2016 remake of the pop culture favorite Ghostbusters (1984) directed by Ivan Reitman, Actor and producer Paul Feig directs the new Ghostbusters with a handpicked all Female lead cast. With the association of men playing the part of the strong and masculine role, by default Actresses are expected to play the loving, caring, and nurturing role expected by society. In this film, Dr. Abby Yates and Jillian Holtzman reunite with Abby’s childhood friend Erin Gilbert and together they study and investigate paranormal activities. After being called to a site in the subway metro station, they meet Patty Tolan an MTA worker , who officially join them and together they become the “Ghostbusters.” They also hire a dim witted secretary named Kevin Beckman who helps them shut down the portal and save the New York City population. Although this film is a female lead film, Reitman’s version of the Ghostbusters demonstrates its high quality through a praiseworthy cast , a reversed gender role, and marvelous visual and special effects.

Shocking audiences of the 1960’s, Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ is one of the most influential films in motion picture history, often being referenced to as the the origin of thriller films. Hitchcock successfully incorporates cinematography, music, and multiple techniques, rendering the perfect amount of tension and suspense right until the climax of the film. Thus, evoking the thrill after which the genre is named.

Crimson Peak, released in 2015 and directed by Guillermo del Toro, opens with a monologue by the film’s protagonist, Edith Cushing. This monologue continues for four minutes, encompassing a flashback which includes events of Edith’s childhood. During this flashback, Edith’s mother comes to her in the form of a ghost. The syuzhet presents ghosts as terrifying and unwanted antagonists that exist to terrorize the hapless Edith. However, the film’s primary twist is that the ghosts actually intend to protect Edith from harm, rather than inflict harm upon her. Her monologue in this opening scene introduces the role of ghosts in the story and establishes many of the film’s most prevalent trends. One such trend is the way the syuzhet makes horrifying

The director of the film made a change of pace by making suspense and fear in Psycho. He used elements of violence together with eery and jump-scare soundtracks that makes such scenes thrilling. The violent scenes were shown upfront with the long knife stabbing into

In my list of movies that always make me cry is the movie “Ghost” which was released on July 13, 1990. This movie made that summer really worth while and gave us romance, comedy and much to think about. The movie starred Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg.

In 1974, director Tobe Hooper revolutionized horror with his film “inspired by a true story,” THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Almost immediately after the film’s release, rumors began to circulate that there was an actual chainsaw wielding madman living with his deranged family in the town of Poth, Texas. The inspired events were also said to have taken place on August 18th, 1973. However, a quick check of that date reveals that the film had just wrapped four days’ prior, making it fairly difficult to base a film on an actual event that had yet to occur. Despite this, there was an actual skin-wearing maniac that was the film’s inspiration.

One of the most famous horror films not just of the 1960's but of all

Horror films share similar characteristics. Horror is meant to enact fear into its audience. Most horror films scare their audiences by using vampires, zombies, ghosts, blood, or gore. However, the film, Rosemary’s Baby (1968), scares its audiences, not by blood and gore. Rosemary’s Baby is one of the scariest films made, but does not conform to the normal horror genre. Roman Polanski’s film tells a story of a young mother who manipulated to give birth to Satan’s baby. Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes), an actor, is enticed by wealth. He is promised by the old couple next door (Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer), who are part of a Satanic cult, riches in exchange for his wife’s, Rosemary (Mia Farrow), womb. Rosemary’s Baby is a horror film due to the cultural response of the audience based on real-life events of the 1960’s.

Over the years, the identity of the monster that terrorized the Whitechapel district has been shrouded in mystery. Jeff Mudgett believes to have the answer to this mystery when his grandmother investigated into his family's history . They discovered that they’re great great grandfather was Herman Webster Mudgett, alias Henry Howard Holmes (H.H. Holmes). The first serial killer that built his hotel, “The Murder Castle,” for the sole purpose of murdering his victims that were visitors needing a place to stay while they enjoyed the Columbian World’s Fair of 1893.

When it comes to slasher movies, such as Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street they are the biggest ones yet. Craven created a whole new slasher villain with Freddy Krueger and his film reinvented the genre. He created a fresh sense of imagination into the horror genre. It is Craven’s best work due to his filming tricks and his bloody and strange death scenes. He created the iconic character Freddy Krueger, who for 32 years is still talked about, he is a character with razor blade hands who kills kids in their sleep.

The true test of a film’s greatness is time. The 1984 science-fiction/comedy classic, Ghostbusters, has stood the test of time, producing both a sequel (in 1989) and a hit cartoon series. Ghostbusters is the story of three offbeat scientists interested in paranormal matters: Peter Venkman (played by Bill Murray), Raymond Stanz (played by Dan Aykroyd), and Egon Spengler (played by Harold Ramis), who have just lost their university grant, and are suddenly forced out onto the streets of New York. What will they do now to survive? After taking a third mortgage out on Ray’s family home, Peter, Ray, and Egon decide to pursue the idea of catching and containing ghosts in the

A humble youth. A paranormal gift. A haunting history. In 1974, Shane Sullivan is a quiet, gangly teen in the suburbs of Boston who discovers he can explore the ancestral memories of a person’s lineage. Confused and frightened, his pursuit of this supernatural ability takes him down a dark and unexpected road of history long forgotten —or rewritten by historians.

Blair Witch Project is regarded the first of its time, a horror film in a documentary-style movie. The release of the film in 1999 marked a new phase in the creation of films. The Blair Witch Project set a benchmark for production of films of different genres, especially for horror movies. The fixtures of the genre, horror films, have long being characterized by the presence of graphical violence and torture by villains like monsters, ghosts, demons and madmen or psychopaths. Prior to the release of the Blair Witch Project, most horror movies were developing in many ways especially in the storyline and justifications of the supernatural characters and scenes. Blair Witch Project was very special in many ways, using mystery, suspense and foreshadowing to create the intense fear and scare in the audience. Since the 1980s, the horror movies have changed dramatically. With every new experience through innovation, in the film industry, the horror films are expected to change with time, and in a whole new dimension.

There are a lot of new horror movies coming soon to theatres this 2017, and they have tons of hype building up from people all over the world. There was also a recent social media phenomenon that took place where random people would roam the streets in the dark, dressed as evil clowns, only to terrify and spook the public. The popularity of the horror genre is only increasing and advancing as the years go by, but who were the founders of this beloved genre? The start of our today’s evolving horror genre could have possibly began back to where time was not yet recorded, and stories were passed on orally. The rush of fear that horror stories bring to us is a feeling