The Awakening Of The Dark Corridor

Everyone loves to watch a good horror film. Whether the effects in the movie are really gory or extremely unsettling, these nail-biting experiences are what give the audience a thrill as they try to peel their eyes away from the screen. The concept of these movies is to give the viewers a good scare, one that will have them glancing over their shoulders or double checking if their doors are locked at night for the next week. This genre has been around since the late nineteenth century, but horror movies did not gain much popularity until the 1930s. Modern day horror films have evolved from its beginnings, but the elements in a horror movie are consistent regardless of time.

Firstly, relating to one of Sigmund Freud’s “Key elements of horror fiction” this film creates an atmosphere that arouses a strong emotional response in the viewer. It does this by causing us to wonder if all of the characters are simply crazy in their own ways, or if this creepy old house contains more than meets the eye. We begin to feel horribly uncomfortable at how angry Grace becomes with her daughter, and slightly creeped out by what’s going through Anne’s head when it comes to her ghost stories. Secondly, this story features the theory that the mind finds pleasure in any kind of stimulation including fear, and we like to feel outside of our element. This film gave us the creeps and made us feel threatened and slightly uncomfortable. It also had a few jump scare moments causing our minds to become stimulated with fear. These theories relate to the article “Scared Witless-The Psychology of Fear”. This movie gives the viewer a lot of anticipation, giving us an odd sense of cerebral pleasure. Sigmund Freud defined horror as “a fascinated dread in the presence of immortal material”. Fascinated is to be irresistibly drawn to something. Dread is to anticipate something with great fear. Immaterial is something that does not consist of matter. We the viewers, were irresistibly drawn to find out if Anne’s stories were true. We were constantly filled with fearful anticipation waiting for the

Since it’s infancy at the beginning of the eighteenth century, horror has followed certain conventions that results in an awakening of the senses, evoking intense emotions of fear and terror in the audience. Horror feeds off triggering the primal fears embedded within all of humankind, creating a sense of menace that is the very substance of this genre. Furthermore, the central menace of a piece tends to enlighten the human mind to the world of the paranormal and the enigmatic, dark side of the unknown. The movie “Psycho” directed by Alfred Hitchcock is a perfect example. Infamous for its shower scene, but immortal for its contribution to the horror genre, “Psycho” was filmed with great tact, grace and art in regards to horror conventions.

Insidious easily fits the film conventions of the horror genre and themes. Insidious incorporates classic horror elements like haunted houses, ghosts, children being possessed, and outside experts of the spiritual world. A family with three children start to witness things out of the ordinary and are unable to understand what they are seeing. The mother, for instance, knew she was seeing strange deities, but her husband refused to believe it and thought she was just out of it. The classic element of denying there is anything out of the ordinary going on is a classic horror element. Typically the people who deny the reality that there might be something supernatural happening, are the first people to be killed or affected in some manner.

“Introduction to Poetry” and “Traveling Through the Dark,” are poems written by Billy Collins and William Stafford. The poem’s, “Introduction to Poetry”, main conflict is a teacher who tries to get his students to read and appreciate a poem, but what all the students only care about is figuring out what it means. The conflict is highlighted through the many uses of metaphors to help us understand how he wants the students to look and decipher a poem and how they only focus on finding the meaning instead of taking their time to listen and see the art of poetry. William Stafford’s poem, “Traveling Through the Dark,” describes a driver’s dilemma of deciding whether to throw a dead pregnant deer into the river, or leave it laying on the road where it can cause an accident. In both poems, the use of literary devices such as metaphors, personification, imagery, and diction are effective in making and building up the conflict and reaching the resolution.

The clinical assessment I find most interesting, even if it's not always the most reliable, is psychophysiological tests. These sorts of tests measure our bodies physiological responses to a certain stimulus which could determine if we have any sort of underlying psychological issue. (Comer, 2014) Physiological responses include changes in blood pressure, accelerating or decreasing heartbeats, breathing patterns, and body temperature. (Comer, 2014)

The novel Ghost is a realistic fiction story about a young boy who joins a track team to outrun his demons. Castle Cranshaw grew up in a poor family living in the ghetto neighborhood, Glass Manor. Ever since his father was placed under arrest for attempting to shoot him and his mother they have lived alone. In this story, the author is trying to show how the alcoholism of Castle’s father threatened to tear apart their family. I strongly believe this is an important subject to write about as it is a real problem that can happen anywhere in the world. Soon kids at Castle’s school acquired the knowledge about his father and bullied him for it. He tried to fight back only causing more trouble for himself at school and at home. When he started causing

The appreciation for horror and thriller films goes a long way in order to scare their viewers. There is no denying the attraction of being frightened by the many forms that fear takes. This is no different in such movies like The Shining and The Amityville Horror. They carry a familiar presence about them. An alluring presence which makes these motion pictures classic to this day. Even though these films grow in age, they never cease to grab onto the darkest terrors of the human imagination. While, Director Stanley Kubick’s The Shining and Director Stuart Rosenberg's The Amityville Horror both contain themes of renewal , The Shining is superior

Zeitler, Michael. “Isolation in Heart of Darkness.” Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature, 3-Volume Set, Facts on File, 2010. Bloom's Literature, online.infobase.com/HRC/Search/Details/38721?q=heart of darkness. Accessed 30 Nov. 2017.

It was Black Friday when the virus hit the city. When the CDC found out about the virus they had shut down the city with no entrance and no exit. A group of 2 experienced agents was sent in to look for traces of the virus and to bring it back to base for research. They needed a live sample of the virus to search for a vaccine. The agents went in by air and landed near a Dark Zone entrance. The Dark zone is the area where the virus first started and is filled with strains of the virus as well as people roaming the Dark Zone to dominate the city. The two agents, Eric and Jake, hopped the wall into the Dark Zone. “This will be easy, just an easy retrieval mission,” said Jake, as he hopped the fence. “Aren’t there still people in there?” asked

Piercing the Darkness a book by Frank E. Petretti has big movie potential! This book is about a little town named Bacons Corner that has found themselves caught up in a battle of spiritual warfare.(main conflict/major theme) The main characters consisting of: Sally Roe a women on the run from her dark and unfortunate past, Tom Harris a teacher that has the title of child abuser just trying to get his name cleared and get his children back, and lastly a young girl by the name of Amber Brandon that has been possessed by a demon named Amethyst. (plot/main characters) Three people you wouldn’t think to have anything in common. Well think again, their paths will soon connect and everything will make since.

Dark paradise is what I live by. It is what I call being raped at a young age and it being both a catastrophe and a terrifyingly pleasurable scary period in my life. Crazy right, why both pleasurable and scary at the same time. That I don't know the answer to myself. But I do know that ever since then my life, the way I viewed the world wasn't the same. I would say that means I matured at the age of five the age where children fantasize what they want to be when they grow up, who's their crush at school? who's the smelliest person in class? who's their favorite teacher?. Of course, I knew all of the answers to all of these questions and more. More specifically the first one, What I wanted to be when I grew up? And the answer to that was many

“Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still glowing, still red as red.” -- William Manchester

There is many details that can prove that Europe was in a dark age from 500 to 1500 AD. Some statements that may prove that they were in a dark age was, the black death, The Crusades, and the government laws. To start, the black death affected ⅓ of europe's population,for example “[The Black Death] was such a frightful thing that when it got into a house, as was said, no one remained." This demonstrates that the plague affected everyone, and everything.People lost hope during the black death because i hit everyone and you could even smell dead people all throughout the town. Another example of why europe was in a dark age, was the crusades. The crusade was when the Muslims, and the Franks [Christians] fought for Jerusalem

The world was created with the intent that every person might inhabit it and live freely and for the most part most of the people do just that; live freely with little to no restrictions. Yet, there is a small percentage that is oppressed, not openly, not publicly but in the shadows. In this country everyone comes from a line of immigrants. Every settler, every missionary, every pilgrim came to the New World as an immigrant, one who comes to live permanently in a foreign country due to oppression, religious freedom, or to pursue a better life. Yet a pressing issue that has taken a high level of importance in the political and social spectrums is the issue of immigration, how to prevent future immigrants from entering America