Essays 1 - 30
we are all insane, than sanity becomes a matter of degree." The difference is, according to King, is that those who are completely...
fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...
This essay pertains to Wilfred Owen's poem, which captures the horror of World War I. Five pages in length, seven sources are cite...
central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...
resisted the imposition of another name, Gustavus Vassa, by his master. Nevertheless, despite being treated as an animal, Douglass...
stronger than that instinct. He believed that if there were no checks and reins required by civilization that humans would just te...
scientific research, as part of his effort to understand the vampires and he discovers the bacterial cause of the vampire plague. ...
Project" serves as an excellent example of a film-maker taking full advantage of the inherent fear of all modern humans regarding ...
In nine pages this research essay discusses the importance of horror, fable, and myth genres in terms of intellectual development ...
manages to resurrect herself momentarily from her entombment before falling dead upon her brother, causing his death also. The hou...
Center 2005). Seymour, of course, wants Audrey and one day when Orin ODs on the laughing gas he uses to get high, Seymour feeds hi...
its production and distribution down to a science, when it comes to marketing movies, there is always room for improvement. Lionsg...
as seen in the more recent Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult classic appeals to audiences because it portrays a different perspe...
In six pages this paper examines the approaches to the horror genre by directors Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg in this con...
In eight pages this paper examines the messages that exist within horror or ghost stories. Eleven sources are cited in the biblio...
The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...
Film criticism and gender are discussed in relation to the horror genre. A look at sexual mores is included. This five page paper...
This report analyzed the Near Dark horror movie within the context of critic Robin Wood's observation that 'normality is threatene...
In six pages this paper discusses how violence in television is represented in reality, horror, and children's program genres. Fi...
mindless conformists, and sought to sound a warning through the medium of film (Caligari, in the figure of the mad doctor compelli...
horror film, according to director Elias Merhige, "The horror film transforms itself, adapting to our fears, to the things that we...
emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...
quiet sense of mystery introduces us to the events. We gain a sense of suspense and a bit of mystery in the fact that Mr. Utter...
other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...
Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...
by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
action shot at a car race. To rely on an old clich?, he is "bored to tears." He spends most of his convalescent time sitting at th...
Hoping to succeed this time, the good doctor gives his complete attention to Cole, even if it means neglecting his wife, Anna (Oli...