LET ME IN 2010 Movie Review

If you're a fan movie horror you already know how strong an experience which can be these types of films. There are some movies horror combine humor with bgalmeno as a way of letting the audience catches their breath. Other "scary movies" maintain the horror factor throughout the movie. What movies you like depends on your personal tastes, but here is a list of the top 10 horror of all time in no particular order. These are big screen events you should see at least once every horror aficionado.

1. merger

Who can forget this cool movie dating back to the 1950s.This horror film starred Steve McQueen as a young hard with his heart of gold that fought the BLOB wild space of glue scan of The remake this trail. horror classic was almost it is not as good as the original version, which was a drive to staple for many years. This was a film that was created when people were less jaded and even special effects is really ridiculous by today's standards at the time when this band that released the audience to leave their imagination to provide them with the best scenes.

2. JAWS

This production Steven Spielberg continues to be one of the following film and certainly deserves to appear between the top 10 horror of all time.Who cares if you really can see great why demon shark, this was another big screen animation that catered to the imaginary fears and shocked audiences around the world with surprisingly little on-screen carnage indicated.

3. the Friday the 13th

This modern day horror film still reeling to viewers and attract new fans. Although a whole series of Friday the 13th movies produced is still the original that people remember better. Jason and hockey mask is indelibly etched in the minds of all who have seen the Thriller "creeped out".

4. The House on Haunted Hill

Another early film that still manages to latch on fears of the unknown and shock million frantic supporters. This was a film that specialized in creating scenes of horror that was more emotional than Visual.

5. The Exorcist

During the 80s some movies has attracted talented advertising that is not where it was originally released in extremely large people stood for the opportunity to be part of the audience. Linda Blair was shot at stardom as the young girl title (s) by a demon and the show scene of the head spinning round would still create a vertex chills for anyone rent this movie. The fact that many people associated with this horror film have been injured or killed even led to conjecture that there was a scourge "Exorcist", of course, this kind of gossip transacts the movie more popular among the millions of horror fans around the world. the Catholic Church was still a few words to say in this movie, but nothing was able to defeat this horror film in his Office at the height of the box.

6. Jeepers Creepers

This is a film created along the lines of the Friday the 13th. have two young people who designed a subculture of murder, horror and nightmarish fears and a hulking, Kavos killer set at General carnage and destruction for anyone in the path of this type of movie. was the basis for some major terror and Jeepers Creepers box office gold was found between audience consists of mostly teens and young adults.

7. Candyman

This was released in 1992, based on a story written by master Clive Barker.You have to love horror film that captures the supranatural effects of pure horror and blends them with "Oh, so reliable" urban legends from the movie ends all members of the audience is convinced that there is a "Candyman" lurking somewhere in the neighborhood.

8. the sixth Sense

Paranormal activity has always been a staple for many horror flicks, but this film raises additional sensory perceptions to a new level.The little boy who is the main character can actually see and talk you are souls.For him, this is a traumatic event, because some of those lingering spirits is truly "terrible to look at, since most of them have suffered a violent death. twist to this film is that the psychologist who help young medium dealing with fears of is also one of those spirits you are but the psychologist such timidity even perceive that has died.This film can be seen as a "tearjerker" and one of the best horror of all time.

9. Blair Witch Project

This horror film that was released in 1999 and was created with and budget.Became a runaway hit even if there had been too small to see the real horror or special effects.This was a powerful fuelled with film psychological superstitious beliefs of the people and that raked in millions in the Office., a city of students in New England, witches and a video camera are the main elements of this film. the Centre is a little confusing and it is difficult to keep track of what happens on the screen, but the fear factor for this film flew off the chart today have even for people who are convinced that this was really a project undertaken by some fearless students who became victims of the curse of the Blair Witch.

10. night of the living Dead

This is another film black and white horror aviation continues to be popular with audiences, the story starts in a cemetery where creatures zombie-like walking about These dead people who have come back to life and which is literally devour each person find a small group of people in a home and trying to fend off these monsters. dead life is not easy to kill and ingenuity is the key to survival. This is one of those horror movies that lets the audience to use their imagination, which is one of the reasons that has become such a classic favorite.

There are many other great horror for people to watch and enjoy. some newer movies use explosive special effects and makeup to create intense scenes but real horror buffs take you don't see often frightening even more than it has recorded camera the best horror movies indalmata early in your imagination and allow you to become part of the action. thanks to new technology is easy for horror fans can choose to follow either older movies or new versions of this means that you have the best of two worlds "fetish completed" at your disposal.

Differences between horror and terror films Fictions

The performance of the film is different from that of novel. Novels can be only in the form of words. Authors can express their own ideas or to achieve their aims only by choosing the best words and do better descriptions.

But for movie makers, have many of the resources to do what they want. In horror fiction to further understanding of our imagination, we deal with all things Thriller in ours. When a novel takes place on the screen, almost all descriptions become d cor and performance of players in a movie. However, the excellent description novels can inspire imagination of people, so that they may also have experiences that make the movie.And, on the other hand, a mediocre movie might limit the imagination of people for established players, places and arena. This may not affect people as do novels.

Put off people with most Movies. We have several options, and audio tape, underscore, and color.The expression of the factors, the pace of the underscore, and the color of the box can convey a lot of information altogether, or whatever. even far or near, fast or slow lenses can express many emotions. These forms need no words.

For Thriller, the effectiveness of sound plays an irreplaceable role.Take a simple scene as an image, when you are followed by a horrible person, aware of this and odour.Man brings the steps when you walk faster and faster, the nervous system, suddenly in the corner of the street you are hit by someone, someone can protect or irrelevant.This simple scene would not shock the audience much without sounds. But if we played music, increasingly nervous with the rate increasingly stringent and stronger, you feel nervous when watching this little piece and when we give a sound such as emboss! "to the correct time when hit the leadership role from the one we do not know, I have a lot of this is the magic of sounds and music.

Some of the best Films of terror from the past

When it comes to horror movies, was a bit of revitalization in Hollywood in recent years. Movies of terror is cheap and tend to do well at the box office. Most of these films are not very good, though. However, there are some great ones in recent years.

Here are some of my favorite horror movies of recent years.

While most of the movies have lackluster and saw the franchise has become a cash cow, the original saw is definitely worth seeing. Apart from the fact that it is frightening and cringe inducing, has a great plot twists and will surprise any movie fan.

The ring is another movie that has a brilliant plot. If you don't like, I don't see the ring. If you are looking for a good scary movie to watch, however, the ring will not disappoint this hurt that Naomi Watts in this either.

A film that may not have gotten great reviews (as do a few horror), but I still have a very scary and had me thinking it was "Quarantine". Dexter Star Jennifer Carpenter plays a leading role in this work to make the viewer believe that terrified.

Of course, an instant classic horror movie the Blair Witch Project was.I remember seeing this film in theaters a few days before they go on a camping trip, which was very, very wrong. this film was revolutionary for the corner of first-person camera, and the whole thing was shot with a camcorder.

A more recent horror film that was excellent is "Let The Right one in, which chronicles a girl vampire who befriends a normal boy. boy are often intimidated, but what changes when he meets the vampire neighbor Eli, who takes care of business.

These are just some of the great films of terror to released recently. More to come soon.

German movies of terror-managers who shape Underground cinema

As a nation, Germany has gone through many difficult moments and survived two major wars ever to take place on our planet. It is understandable, since it has suffered so much real life terrorism, the kind of horror film is not exactly flourishing there after the second world WAR. In fact, it is not until the 1980s that filmmakers will begin to emerge from the German underground film scene and put their mark on our Favorite genre.

Today I would like to introduce you to five influential German filmmakers have made the kind of German horror what it is today; while you may recognize them all, you'll know I staked at least one name from the list.

We begin our journey with a man named of Andreas Schnaas, is considered the pioneer of ultra-violent Metro film scene.Mr Schnaas was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1968 and in love with cinema fell at a very young age. Since the local theatres were lax in their exclusion from the most horrific movies, Schaas grew up in a steady diet of high-caliber martial arts movies and animations zombie. While his parents are not necessarily approve the film tastes, recognize the artistic tendencies and from the age of 12

He shot his first amateur horror film in which he himself and a friend.

You could until 1989 that, Schnaas could operate until the funds needed to shoot his own movie (5000 DM, about 2,000 USD $), but when he did his first film made a very.Violent * t, the original full film was so called because it is what Schnaas ' friend accused do.The story involved Karl the butcher and apparently the film itself was largely oriented Gore. Fans loved it, and immediately became a hit cult inspires many a show midnight. the German Government, the following shall be prohibited on the other hand, this video is currently suffering as much first release Straight-to-video. This is going to produce three sequels: mother Hold my hand, Infantry of Doom (also known as a zombie Doom in the USA) and Nikos. Even

Although the band never sued for copyright infringement, the first film included to prevent the unauthorized use of the song W.A.S.P. "the torture does not stop.

The same year, writer director Jörg Buttgereit of Berlin, would bring in the world yet another controversial film. Nekromantik described by the famous film director John waters as the world's first erotic film for necrophiliacs ".The story in a kind of tragic Nekromantik includes "hero" employment is the removal of bodies from public places this gives the perfect opportunity for favorite fetish: romancing the dead. As you can imagine, due to

SUBJECT MATTER, the film is banned in several countries. However, unlike the film Nekromantik Schnaas, intends to be a social commentary. The basic gist of the story shows the main character abused and tortured by society in General, enabling the world's sick fantasy withdrawl is created to hide inside.In the fantasies he can exert a final control over the world and in particular ' puppet ' dead in the same way that civil society to the master all-checks for the existence.

While the film's Buttgereit can be defined as horror, since it is clearly a strong element in the film, many viewers are more clearly classified as transgressive movie is in itself a kind of avant garde filmmaking. the film itself contains many scenes that will be difficult for each audience to swallow, but hard truths about life is often. For cold symbolism, Buttgereit film debut certainly pushes limits.

Shortly before the 1990 showed a greater force in the German movie landscape: Olaf Ittenbach.Black legacy, Mr Ittenbach first film proved not only his directorial debut, as well as the introduction of as an actor. He played a teenage metalhead who is a heavy death from a drinker and obsessive, tortured by nightmarish visions. of course, there is a set of spiral in lunacy. Many consider Ittenbach to is the first German ' splatterpunk ' filmmaker and compare the works of Resident Evil, toxic Avengers and other more recognized movies. It is certainly pushed further into the public German horror the projector, but not as our final Director presented in this article.

You may have guessed what comes: Uwe Böll Foundation, Böll Foundation is a Director whom critics love to hate.Is a man who were apparently only dark German movies for the real world.It is not only a Director, but also and perhaps most screen writer working mainly producer from his own.Unlike many Hollywood directors taken outside funding, Herr Böll Foundation seeks to fund his own work.He studied at the University of Siegen and

University of Cologne and holds a doctorate in literature.

So it may come as a surprise to many that he has been treated with contempt both the world of cinema.While there are many potential reasons as there are no brains to think their critics often aim at what they see as the emphasis style over substance. movies of Uwe Böll Foundation taken direct inspiration from the video games like Alone dark, postal, BloodRayne and dead.While they may boast the finest acting or more realistic effects in movies today, Mr Böll Foundation films offer a more sure until a solid fun factor and that has made him something of a cult hero among fans of video games and horror movies in General.

A true maverick style, Uwe Böll Foundation rarely stand when he criticised. This is for insulting public critics and even challenge to get a ring and context! This congratulates its legendary ability to raise funds for films as opposed to obtaining funding from established Studio. most of the investors are German, because in the country of the native enjoys tax shelter that helps is able to finance the films more easily.

harsh criticism and downright mean things he said about his films, still produces and undoubtedly improve. While this can be a magnet for media only, Uwe Böll Foundation is proud of its supporters and refuses to leave the passion.

This is a wrap about this look at four influential directors in German horror film scene. hope will open your eyes to what has to offer when it is dark film the land that brought us Dachshunds. Volkswagens and can take some work to find the titles that are presented here, but surely you can't be shocked if you choose to pick a few for your viewing pleasure!

Best horror movies of 2009

Grace 5).

Many times we rent horror solely on the basis of how the original area of the plot. No matter how terrible it is, I always give it a chance if it is something that I have never seen before, I hope this proves to be great. Grace won the movies, when I read the back of the frame and thought, "now that's cool sounds", and this is the case. The film revolves around a pregnant woman loses its development during a tragic car accident and her unborn baby. Choose to move and to deliver the lifeless embryo in any case, the mother goes into labor only to be shocked by creating a living, breathing baby. Chalking this up as a medical miracle doctors let us mother you take the child home to start a new family. But after weeks of milk, baby denies mother soon realized that all the hungry baby wants to eat human blood.This is a Hermit with baby, this is an extreme measures to meet the child hunger. St201 gem by Paul Solet/Director was certainly deserves the rental and concluded that one of the best surprises 2009.

4.) dead Snow

The main reason why this film cracking my list of top five movies of terror is thanks to this maxim million dollar, the same premise allegedly got the film financed with only two words dynamically awesome: Nazi Zombies! And even Dead snow could have and should have been much better than you do not need away from the fact that Tommy Wirkola blood soaked tale of medical students stranded snow capped hills of Germany during boarding slowly from one by one from eating flesh, swastika wearing monsters from the Third Reich is an absolute blast furnaces for track. obvious inspiration from the American horror classics such as brilliant Evil Dead, Dead Snow is one of those modern horror movies created by blood-and-guts comedy as the number one goal.Just goes to show that Tarantino was the Director of this year to put a humorous Spin on the "horrors" of the second world war.

3.) Paranormal activity

Unlike the majority of the population of the nation, I am not in love madly Paranormal activity when I saw my first, having some issues with the movie lackluster ended (what the hell, Spielberg?) now will not be my mistake, it was certainly anatrichiastiko as hell with some real stomach-disturbing moments, but the fright factor is not a film that takes this film in my top five I was won over what a convincing and entertaining film/director Oren Peli was able to deliver with a budget of around just elachistotato € 11000 was able to have a global audience. an impressive achievement that thousands of struggling filmmakers try to achieve each year; now, thanks to the Peli, there is a new found hope as every major film studio in America is search for the next Paranormal activity.

2. Treat Trick R ')

Thanks to two years worth extended Internet phone that film would not be able to respond, this anthology of stories «was unfortunately a disappointment for many people, cannot meet the worldwide web.But for me, it became an instant holiday classic, held immediately my annual Halloween horror movies playlist, accompanying the likes such notable titles as John Carpenter's Halloween and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.Written and directed by Superman Returns was Michael Dougherty, Trick ' R Treat has interesting characters in fun, campy stories include a movie that never takes itself serious, while at the same time staying true to the spirit of all Hallows Eve. movie concluded that one of the best selling DVD of 2009, it was exactly what item that makes Warner BROS wondering thought shelving the movie with such bankability among the masses of terror Bay for two years.Let us hope that they will not be stupid for already scheduled.

1. Sauna)

I am quite sure that if you follow this hybrid history/horror by Director by Jussi Annila Anti-to mute the entire runtime, it will still effectively creep hell out of you. the Finnish film, which was technically a version of 2008, but does not make the members by 2009, is no doubt that some of the most beautiful cinematography never will appear in a horror film, used to create a dark, eerie atmosphere from start to finish. Brilliantly interweaving elements of arthouse Cinema by price shocks of modern Hollywood horror, sauna delivers a fairy tale supranatural set year 1595 is just as reliable and frightening as anything seen in the Paranormal activity. horror movies Completely epinoites from Finland in advance, thanks to the sauna, I now follow them.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Symbols that scare-13 common Artifacts of terror

Most films use patterns or specific objects as metaphors for a concept that the filmmaker is trying to convey. In horror movies, many such objects are used to intensify mood, identify character traits, emphasize themes and concepts (e.g. good vs. evil), and foreshadow events. Objects can be powerful symbols that add depth and meaning to a story.

Horror films try to capture our worst nightmares. As Carl G. Jung observed in his book Man and His Symbols (1979): "Commonplace objects or ideas can assume such powerful psychic significance in a dream that we may awake seriously disturbed, in spite of having dreamed of nothing worse than a locked room or a missed train" and "As a general rule, the unconscious aspect of any event is revealed to us in dreams, where it appears not as a rational thought but as a symbolic image."

Some of the most common symbolic objects found in horror include:

1. Religious Symbols - Religion is very prevalent in horror, with themes of life and death, spirituality, man playing god, man fighting inner and outer demons, good versus evil, and so forth. Religious artifacts may be Christian, occult, satanic, voodoo, or about any other type of belief in something greater than humanity. In The Skeleton Key (2005), hospice worker Caroline Ellis is a skeptic and does not believe in the supernatural, even though hoodoo items and legends surround her in the swampy, primitive homestead where she cares for an elderly man, Ben. As Ben believes in the hoodoo magic, Caroline pieces together more and more about the lynching of a slave couple who performed hoodoo in the attic, and her belief system begins to shift. She learns about the jujus - spell-books and recorded conjurations she discovers in the attic - and begins to perform rituals herself. In the end, her fear makes her a believer and this is her downfall, as it is what the slaves, who have lived on in the bodies of others, needed to take over her body. She let the symbolic objects overpower her reasoning.

2. Symbols of Death - Death is naturally pervasive in horror and there are countless representative objects, such as coffins, gravestones, skeletons, angels of death, and so forth. In Psycho (1960), the taxidermy birds are representative of the dead mother in the home and Bates' schizophrenic attempts to keep her alive after death. In horror, there can be confusion between life and death, such as ghosts, zombies, and the supernatural, so objects can help symbolize who is on which side. Toward the beginning of Jacob's Ladder (1990), Jacob gets trapped in an underground tunnel, which is symbolic of being trapped between life and death. The rushing train which barely misses him on the track is filled with disfigured faces, lost souls like him. As he suffers increasing hallucinations and his life spins out of control, the only comfort he finds is with his chiropractor Louis, who he describes as an overgrown cherub. We later discover he is in fact an angel. Louis tells Jacob the truth about his situation, though Jacob cannot comprehend its real meaning at the time. The fire that Jacob ignites at an Army headquarters (Jacob believes the hallucination were from army experiments) represents his need to burn away his attachments and memories of life. Fire symbolically recurs many times in the film and Jacob is literally consumed by it before being able to finally leave his hellish purgatory.

3. Colors - Many films use color to symbolize themes and the powers of good and evil. Red is often associated with evil, blood, lust, and violence, for example the Red Queen in Resident Evil (2002). Black is also naturally associated with evil while light, neutral colors or earth tones are associated with good or the general populace.

4. Light - Light can symbolize many things, such as hope, transition, escape, and even death (e.g. Poltergeist's "Don't go into the light!") Sunlight normally provides a sense of comfort so the incongruity of sunlight and horror can be especially unnerving, such as in the famous graveyard scene in Night of the Living Dead (1968). Candles, lanterns, and flashlights are common sources of light in horror, as this light can only be cast so far while the surrounding darkness is rife with shadows. In this early scene from Hellraiser (1987) the dangling light bulbs in the torture room instantly sets the tone.

INT. TORTURE ROOM NIGHT

The bare bulbs in the room we've entered swing violently, disorienting us. There are chains - dozens of them - disappearing with the darkness of the ceiling: all are swinging back and forth. Some end in hooks, with pieces of skin and sinew adhering; some are serrated, others simply drip blood.

In the claustrophobic British horror film The Descent (2005), a group of female friends on a caving expedition become hunted by inhuman creatures. The women are trapped in virtual darkness underground and light is their only friend as the creatures are blind. Light and dark are often used thematically to represent good and evil, hence the horror of the night and the hope of a new dawn if you have managed to survive.

5. Weapons - A majority of horror films involve the use of weapons, from machine guns to saws. Weapons have phallic symbolism that suggests masculine power and the woman that outsmarts the villain essentially castrates him. Leatherface's weapon in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) is the ultimate phallic symbol of raging power. Weapons are most symbolically powerful when they reflects character; Leatherface lives on and on for this very reason.

6. Fabric - Fabric appears in many forms in horror, such as drapes, tapestries, and furniture dust coverings. Because fabric can disguise, it intensifies suspense as it suggests the presence of something behind it. The protagonist can also hide behind fabric, but of course is not protected by it. In The Others (2001), the mother hears voices in the home and enters a room where all the stored items are covered with dust cloths. As the voices intensify, she begins pulling down the cloths to try to reveal the source. In this film, fabric is used as a metaphor for covering the dark truth the mother refuses to accept, that she murdered her own children. The curtains that are always closed in the home also emphasize this. Once the mother accepts the truth, there is no need for curtains and they can live in the light.

7. Keys/Locks - Keys and locks symbolize secrets, confinement, and hidden objects or places. In The Skeleton Key, Caroline is trying to solve her patient Ben's paralyzed condition. Her skeleton key works in every room in the house except one in the attic. She manages to get inside the room and discovers a host of disturbing secrets that will lead to her own demise. In The Others, the mother must constantly lock and unlock doors to prevent light from reaching her children who have a rare condition and will die if exposed to sunlight. In this film, the keys and locks represent her confined thinking as well as her physical confinement in purgatory. Only when she accepts the truth can all the doors be left unlocked, as the curtains can come down.

8. Doors and Windows - Doors and windows (or any portal) have many symbolic meanings. Often, they help symbolize characterization. With windows, a person has a limited perspective and is like a spectator, not part of the outside world. The person looking through the window may be frightened of the world outside or physically unable to be part of it. In The Others, the mother is often by the window looking out, trapped in her home because of her children and a dense, pervasive fog. At the end, she and her children stand by the window looking out at a world they no longer belong to. On the other hand, doors can be symbolic of opportunity. In horror, however, doors and windows are typically a means of entrapment or escape. They are also highly utilized for building suspense... is something behind the slightly open door or lurking outside the window in the dark? In Night of the Living Dead, doors and windows are dangerous openings that the zombies can infiltrate, despite efforts to block them up. Some of the most frightening scenes are when zombie hands reach in through spaces between the wooden boards. Windows can also personify a haunted house as eyes, such as the always glowing, quarter-round windows in Amityville Horror.

9. Labyrinths/Mazes - Mazes and labyrinths have often appeared in horror to heighten the protagonist's lack of control. From the hedge maze in The Shining to the complex labyrinth of the underground Hive in Resident Evil, they offer many opportunities for sudden surprises around the corner, trap doors, circular action, and a sense of improbability for escape.

10. Dolls - Dolls have appeared often in horror storytelling. The incongruity of a child's toy and danger can make it unnerving, as dolls normally represent happiness, innocence, and nurturing. Yet their distorted human qualities, such as oversized heads, unblinking eyes or exaggerated features, can make them especially eerie. Doll appearances can be subtle, such as the marionette in The Others. The doll on a string represents a figure that is not in control of its movements or destiny, much like the mother despite her efforts. It is also a moment when she shockingly connects to 'the other side' and her lifelong definitions of reality are completely rattled. Dolls can also take a leading role, such as in the evil Chucky series. The same unnerving effect has been used with clowns, though they have been so overused as to have lost much of their effect. Dolls, on the other hand, come in so many forms, from voodoo to Barbie dolls and battered antique to contemporary ones, that they offer vast opportunities for symbolic use. A doll's symbolism, which may be expressed through children's play or other means, might include sexuality, lack of control, death, desire, regret, families, aging, and much more.

11. Masks - from the Phantom of the Opera to slasher classics, masks are most often used to disguise evil. Masks are devoid of movement, except for the eyes that peer through them, which makes them like doll faces. In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Leatherface wears three different masks (made from human skin) that reflect his mood or victim. And who will ever forget hockey-masked Jason or white-faced Michael Myers? On occasion, the villain behind the mask may be a woman. The Japanese film, Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007), is based on an urban legend that claims a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose beautiful face had been horribly disfigured. She would roam the streets wearing a long coat and surgical mask. She would approach her young victims and, while removing the mask, ask them if she was pretty. Their response would inevitably lead to a violent demise.

12. Mirrors - Mirrors, or a mirror effect such as reflections in glass or water, can have many symbolic meanings though typically represent the multiple dualities of characters. Broken mirrors have obvious connotations of shattered lives and personalities. Mirrors can also represent voyeuristic, vanity, and sexual themes - we display our bodies and beautify ours faces in front of them in private. Mirrors can also reflect dangers. The following scene from Halloween: H20 (1998) is a good example of how effective this can be as a sudden scare tactic:

Linda swipes her palm across the fogged-up mirror, wiping away the steam... ON the MIRROR. In its reflection we see Molly and Linda... then -- THE SHAPE appears from the cloud of steam behind them!

The mirror has been the subject of many films, including Alexandre Aja's 2008 film Mirrors, which is based on the 2003 Korean film Into the Mirror. In these films, the mirror is a gateway between good and evil, its symbolism similar to doors, gates, and windows.

13. Rope - Rope has many symbolic meanings, from bondage, flogging, and death (the noose) to a means of escape or survival. In horror, ropes are most often used as a form of bondage. This symbolism has been used since the dawn of cinema and has symbolic importance today. In the opening of James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), one of the first shots is a pair of hands pulling on a rope; hands lowering a coffin before grave robbers Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant pull it back up in front of a statue of the Grim Reaper. Later in the opening sequence, they cut a condemned man down from the rope of a gallows but are disappointed that they will need a different brain as his neck was severed.

Symbolism can be very powerful and is an important tool for enhancing theme and character. Everyday objects can be used to effectively alter mood. Even a paper doll can be salaciously scary if in the right hands!

Horror Movies for you

The horror film movie is today one of the many types of species between film. However not all viewers, as this film because it is not only your parrot fish, but also make you unable to fall asleep. It is known that the persistence of vision creates the illusion of movement in mind, but with some movies, pictures, even now, remain difficult in our minds, drifting in us nightmares.

The following are the two best movies and horror.

1. Candyman

The scary movie on the 1992 is based on a short story Clive Barker. like most horror films, this film is based on an urban legend that a bleak picture will appear and slash your death, when one of you says five times in front of the mirror. This movie done an excellent job at creating a original supranatural threat, while grounding both constant in the context of urban legends.

2. the ring

This well-mounted American Remake (since 1998 Japanese visits Ringu, based on a popular novel of Koji Suzuki) is the kind of the scariest movie you will track to set a coolant disposal or spook friends.This film follows a journalist Seattle (Naomi Watts) is investigating the death of the victim's niece, mysterious videotape that according to urban legend, causing the death of spectator seven days later, then this, her son, and of a friend of tape and structure countdown the film follows the deeper levels of terror.

If you compare the original movie and the remake, and both have their plot holes and jumps, but unluckily, original Sadako is more frightening than anatrichiastiko and Remake the Samara. overall, for those of you who enjoy a horror film, this movie that ends with the disturbing images and some good shock will be the right choice.

In addition to these movies mentioned above, there are hundreds of channels that show the scary movies to enjoy family. in addition, you can find some really great horror movies online.

Rest Stop-REVIEW OF a horror film

Low-budget horror Films are always a mixed bag. For each one that exceeds the limitations and provides us with chills and thrills, there are at least a dozen they fall flat on their faces and to completely fail to impress. Unfortunately, Stop the rest falls in the latter category.

Describing what went wrong with the picture this is a complex issue, like almost fails on every single level.The script for which, the rest stop is only fun in a kind of Mystery Science Theater. I cannot imagine what the filmmakers shooting.

The film follows the young lovers Nicole (Jaimie Alexander) and Jess (Joey Mendicino), Texas and led them to seek their fortunes in sunny California.After a stop to love and give the film a gratuitous nudity (but with what looks like a double for the female lead institution), the couple is experiencing a redneck that almost runs out of the way this is what passes for foreshadowing these days, folks. Anyone who can't guess what will happen then you should never try to play a game of Clue.

After a break in the rest of the bathroom, Nicole returns to find Jess is missing. He originally left the friend, but soon she really understands what is at stake when the redneck with vehicle makes a return appearance. From there on, this is a game of cat and mouse.

It is difficult to imagine that someone who served as producer for both the X-files and supranatural had anything to do with this piece of junk. Unfortunately, they did so. Indeed, all the blame can be fitted with legs of John Shiban, since he shared the duties of the Director and writer.Judging from this effort, I think that everyone would be better if he has stuck to produce in the future.

Nicole may be the dumbest heroine in the history of terror. Instead of operation in forests, it insists the same instruments are constantly being tiny women's room, which has worked for seemingly by the victims of the killer redneck for decades.Early in the film, it also removes the Park Ranger's Office (as a Park Ranger has an Office at the end of rest is beyond me) and continues to drink all the Wild that may be found.Getting drunk and pursued a claim is certainly a strategy which they have never felt.

And then there are the scenes with Joseph Lawrence, who portrays the most incompetent police in the history of cinema.I do not want to destroy the scenes for you, but suffice it to say that you will laugh out loud several times against incapacity of the duo.

The script is terrible, choosing to follow the same tired cliches. Also, there are several scenes which mainly serve to baffle the audience and to go anywhere; take, for example, the family of religious zealots who temporarily rescue Nicole with METEOROLOGICAL. stage serves no other purpose than to verify that all dedicated religious Folk in horror movies is absolutely nuts.

If you are looking for real dangers, then strongly urge to look elsewhere, but if you are looking for a train wreck of contemporary filmmaking and then rest stop can be your movie.

And I dare to keep from laughter.

Top 10 Scariest Movies ever-10 horror movies you don't want to Miss!

Earlier today some friends friend and decided to investigate in what were the top 10 scariest movies ever to attend on Halloween no interruption. Well, what better place than the Internet to do research on horror movies. We went to a different forum, asked some experts, we even went to Ask500 and made a couple of polls. Only I have seen personally 4 of these movies and Yes they will scare the hell out of you live. But we save the good things about Halloween, you will need to join us! Here are our findings:

Top 10 Scariest Movies Ever

1. the flight (Spoorloos)-1988

2. Don't look now-1973

3. the sixth Sense-1999

4. Halloween-1978

5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre-1974

6. the bright-1980

7. the omen-1976

8. The haunting-1963

9. Poltergeist-1982

10. The Exorcist-1973

Although I myself and my friends have seen only 4 of these top 10 scariest movies ever (the sixth Sense, the disappearance, Poltergeist and The Exorcist), we can really say that these films is to not play around with, you must be over 18 and even then your probably going to a therapist at the end of October. takes account of the fact that we have over 1000 people on these results, do not take them lightly.

One word of warning, but you really have to watch the movies mentioned in these years there are tens of thousands of horrible remakes (and not alarmingly) especially commercial Hollywood remakes, they are really frightening to watch. If you're watching something good and «seriously, you need to follow the old versions.

The first horror film

Horror Movies are famous all over the world for the emotion, shock and sorrow. It is violent and enjoyment of these depends on the enjoyment of violence and it is. All characters from terror is important, but the BEST iRWES have a special place in our hearts.

Horror movie plots, forces of evil, events or characters, sometimes supranatural origin, enter into the everyday world. Early horror films often drew inspiration from characters and stories from classical literature, like Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, The Wolf Man, The Phantom of the Opera and Mr Later horror films, on the other hand, often drew inspiration from the uncertainties of life since World War two, giving an increase for the three distinct but related horror movie subgenres-personality, the horror film Armagedwna-and horror-of-the-demonic movie. The latter subspecies can be regarded as a modernised transition from the previous films of terror, expanding on the previous emphasis on supranatural factors associated terror in the world. However, some large studios and respected directors have made forays into the type and most serious criticisms have been analysed horror movies through the prisms genre theory and the theory of auteur. Some horror films incorporate elements from other genres such as fiction, fantasy, thrillers and black comedy. The kind of horror is almost as old as the film itself. The first illustrations supranatural events appear in many of the silent shorts created by film pioneers such as Georges Méliès at the end of musical comedy, the more important becomes the 1896 Le 1Er du diable (aka "the House of the Devil"), sometimes credited as the first horror film. Another of the works of terror was in 1898 La Caverne maudite (aka "The cave of the demons").The early 20th century brought more milestones for the kind of horror and the first monster to appear in a film horror, Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame who had appeared in the book of Victor Hugo, local wines "Notre Dame de Paris" (published in 1831). many of the earliest feature length ' horror films ' created by German film makers in the 1910s and 1920s, many of which have a significant influence on later Hollywood films.

Caligari was so controversial with American audiences, as a result of post-war feelings and influence with the style of the most resilient Expressionistic horror film of the era was probably the first possibility, vampire, F. The role of the most famous, however, the Phantom of the Opera (1925), perhaps the true horror of the world famous predecessor series. , popular horror film, display a series of successful Gothic features including Dracula (1931), The Mummy (1932), some of which blended movies fiction with Gothic horror James Whale Frankenstein (1931) and the invisible Man (1933).The universal horror Films has continued from the 1940s to 1941 Wolf Man, the werewolf movie first, but certainly the most influence with the dramatic changes in technology that was introduced in the 1950s, the tone of the film horror shifted away from the gothic to the direction of science fiction.The classier horror films of the period, including the Thing from another World (1951 on the screen is represented by Christian Nyby but is widely regarded as the work of Howard Hawks) and Don Siegel Invasion of the body Snatchers (1956) managed to divert the paranoia of the cold war in atmospheric pressure creepiness without recourse to directly exploit the events of the day.

Check Out the best horror movies of 2009

It is kind of difficult to name the best motion pictures of all time, if they come from different types, classifications or categories. In this respect, let us concentrate on only one item. Let's concentrate on five of the best horror that was released in the us in 2009.

The motion picture "25/8" is one of the best horror 2009.Written by Wes Craven, "25/8" focuses on the return of a killer home for killing children whose birthday falls on the date of took nearly killed this horror film stars Dennis Boutsikaris, Frank Grillo, Denzel Whitaker, Shareeka Epps and Thierriot Max.

Another film that can be considered as one of the best horror film of 2009 is "Jennifer's Body."Written by Diablo Cody, the film focuses on a formal cheerleader who kill members of the Faculty and fellow classmates. The main character presented by actress Megan Fox and a pair of Performers included is Amy Sedaris and J.K. Simmons.

"Giallo" is also one of the best horror film 2009. history develops a partnership with an Italian American stewardess detective for rescuing the former sister, who had been kidnapped by a serial killer. "Giallo" directed by Dario Argento and writes Sean Keller and Jim Agnew. These factors include Adrian Brody and Elsa Pataky.

"Wolf Man" is a movie star-studded horrors starring Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt.Directed by Joe Johnston and written by Andrew Kevin Walker, other actors starring in the movie include Sam Hazeldine, Kiran Shah, Geraldine Chaplin and Hugo Weaving.Once you know who the Director, writers and actors are, you probably already know that "The Wolf Man" is considered as one of the best horror of all time.

With the success of the film "The Evil Dead 1" and "The Evil dead 2", no one will doubt the success of "drag me to Hell" as all those directed by Sam Raimi films of Raimi has always considered the best horror. "And drag Me to hell," the story begins with a European lady who says the curse for a young woman. written by Sam Raimi himself with the help of brother Ivan, starring in "And drag Me to hell" include Flor de Maria Chahua, David Paymer, Stallone Sage, Jessica Lucas, Alison Lohman and Justin Long.

Friday, October 1, 2010

What is the Scariest Movie You Have Ever Seen?

People always ask the question: "what is the scariest movie you've ever seen?" this topic seem to always have a different response depending on the person you speak to. Each of us has our own opinions on what is the fear or what makes us stay up late at night in accordance with art. I am not going to have a final answer to the question referred to above, but we will try and give you some information about the species is known as horror and will focus more on the classic films that these authors have become popular recently.

One of the first notable horror films of the past century was released in 1922, titled "Nosferatu A Symphonic horror" directed by f. w. Murnau, tells the story of Dracula. They had the right to use the real name Dracula or any of the original names character from Bram Stoker's Dracula is hence what the name of the competitor's Nosferatu published movie. Since the initial release was a big film cult following.Now considered one of the classic is now public access allowing many who may not have been able to before you monitor and see everything as a whole; for those who have watched the movie, cannot compare horror films in recent time, but for the time of the release and is considered one of the following GRAND Foundation to start and build horror at what it is today.

Of course, not just one, but many movies that come to mind is regarded as some of the classic horror monster from Universal pictures. "Dracula" "Creature from the Black Lagoon" "Wolfman" "Frankenstein" and "The Mummy" all made their mark in history as the horror after! Each brought a new sense of fear in their lives. These inspired generations, and we have brought new filmmakers such as Wes Craven, John Carpenter, and others. We consider the "universal monsters" classic which inspired them to create their own horror movies. Artistic ensembles and direction is unmatched.Anyone who believes, to fans of the genre of horror, or anything that has to do with horror takes work frames from the "Universal Studios monsters" began to see ... after the release of these films is afraid of the power that horror had about the public and how bringing people into the open, in fact, it was fun more Studio began to emerge, with their own horror movies. One of the main ones that have a love of horror, Hammer Film Productions.

Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and others became famous by their work in Hammer Films. Studio British film began in 1934, and the Kingdom of fear from 1950 to 1970, enter a new level of suspense and horror mystery movies. After the movie was released with film where totals and acting was wonderful if not perfection. "The curse of Frankenstein "" Man with the invisible "The Mummy" is only a small fraction of the stunning collection of new horror remakes Hammer films and entering in the world. Here we can find materials of our own haunted house with content and brought to us power Hammer. We are now at a point painting and our horror Chamber with the films of the modern era.

In 1980 and has in addition a new collection of fear."Nightmare on Elm St.""Friday the 13th" to "cry", "you know what your last summer" ' Blair Witch Project "and many others that our little house in a House of horrors terror. new technologies and special effects ever before imagined scenes created by managers began the building of this kind.Who knows what will later our movies to keep what is afraid our late at night and inspires more generations of filmmakers and film lovers alike with the time and patience to see.

The Guy is a list of the best horror Films in recent years

Many people are not fans of horror. Violence, difficult material evidence of people, zombies, ghosts and suspenseful moments off. I am not one of those people. After taking a class in the House of horror movies, I began to love them.

If you are looking to get into movies of terror is hard to sift through all those evil. here are some scary movies worth watching.

If you have seen the first movie I ever saw, you may be pleasantly whether or not you're a fan of horror movies. of course, you may need to look away sometimes, because of excessive Gore, but anyone can appreciate the plot line and twists this movie. Put this way, there is a reason why he had 6 follow-up.

Another great horror film that was the surprise hit of 2009 was Paranormal activity. recorded in first person view, using only a video camera, this film is supposed to have a budget of $ 15,000 and grossed over $ 100 million. It is not too bad huh? sequel comes out later this year.

While succeeded too little credit in the Office of the framework, I enjoyed thoroughly Zombieland.Starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg, Zombieland came out in 2009, and it was both scary and hilarious now is a great movie for someone who does not like horror to watch.Woody maintains the joke while zombies provides several Gore meet horror fans.

The Descent is another film that may not necessarily be good in the Office of the framework, but also achieved some of worship after powering up the DVDS. Indeed, this movie made uncomfortable and combines elements of Gore and Claustrophobia.

The best horror film I have seen in recent memory is Drag Me To hell. This is a great movie for someone who is not a fan of horror to see also will be over the top, funny, partially tremendous and has a familiar face to Justin Long; it is good to know that Sam Raimi is linked with the dwindling franchise Spider-man, because he can return to this better, make scary movies.

These are just some of those who today jump to me, but there are certainly more which is worth seeing. However, this is a good start.

Top 5 Films of terror

This is a list of the top 5 horror movies will scare your irrational. A collection of films that is perfect, if your a fetish, or hold a tight over night.

It may be the most popular choices for everyone, but no one will be able to refuse the effects of the kind of terror and the people who follow these 5 will scare you so much for the second time around as they did when they were seen first.

These movies should all be watched in the dark for maximum impact by soul and stitch terrifies me for real, watch them in the back.

The top 5 horror films are:

1. The shining (1980)
An initial concept quite bad and horrifically well made even my freaks.

2. The Thing (1982)
Nothing like It even now. only a desert of cold, with a foreign evil cannot stop.

3. the invasion of the body Snatchers (1978)
A remake that wrimoteroi prototype.Only one number from the occupied with no one to trust.

4. Psycho (1960)
Of the biggest Director of all time, Alfred Hitchcock, a masterpiece of psychological terror.

5. Halloween (1978)
Starts the ' creators '. Cruel crazy Teen man with children's minds through the Foundation.

This list of horror films are guaranteed to give you a few of the most intense frights you have never been captured on film.

Each film contributed with the kind of horror in their own way, some of them begins an almost entirely new form of horror film from the creators of Teen ' Halloween ' psychological horror "psycho. The claustrophobic style of shooting and the Centre and perfectly executed all ratings so that these classic films are still the top 5 movies in the genre.

The most popular Films of terror all times

Horror Movies designed terrorising and panic, to invoke hidden our worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking final. The earliest horror movies were Gothic in style-this means that usually had set «old manors, castles, dark and; is locale.

The main character of the film was "unknown", human creatures such as vampires, supranatural, devils, demons, monsters, ghosts, evil spirits, werewolves the visible part of the machinery in the presence of evil the first horror film, it was only two minutes long, was created by the French filmmaker Georges Melies "Devil's Castle" (Le 1Er du Diable) (1896), which contained some elements later vampire movies.

The influence of early films were "the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Central des Doktor Cligari) (1919) silent expressionistic milestone of German classic. early 1900 's, the German film Der Golem was the first horror film issues achieved great success. Early gourmet Universal Studios created a kind of modern film and brought to the screen, for successful films such as "Dracula", "Frankenstein" and "The Mummy".

In the late 50 's horror movies became very gorier as the technical side of the film became cheaper.Early aviation saw the release of two films that the gap between the subject and the Viewer. "Peeping Tom" was, and the other was "Psycho", two movies using rather human monsters rather than supranatural those scare the audience.

"The Exorcist" (1973) broke all records for a horror film in 1975 "Jaws" became the highest grossing film ever. horror Movies turned to self-irony and outright mocking parody of the decade when in "Cry" is often mentioned in the history of terror.

There is the argument that the films of terror is morally and socially irresponsible and even certain people to imitate the brutal methods of murderers image on the screen.

Horror movies anyway have the opposite effect on normal people-sick minds will commit crimes anyway. When we Watch horror movies you will find our secret fears, share it with other viewers and eliminate terrorism by facing it.

But if you are a lover of the movie or perhaps you are too scared to watch a horror film then perhaps the right solution for you. why don't you turn on your computer and look for some games scary line?

Trust me you will be surprised by what I found there are many games from anatrichiastiko, horror, scary is too frightening. So, choose the right for you and enjoy playing.

Or, if you are a lover of the movie to go ahead and take a troll through these favorite movies of all time; if you happen to hear sounds like Whispering or anatrichiastiko sounds, just any attention this is probably only. wind.

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The worst movies of terror over the past ten years

As a film critic, I have met and it is an endless amount of cinema. Looking for the kind of terror, as is always the one that is constantly evolving, and I think that the concept of how they have changed the type of the last decade, is particularly exciting.

However, not all movies of terror is necessarily good horror films, as well come to learn. here are some that really does not make the cut ...

The number 23 (2007)
While there may be a perfect example of the kind of terror, Joel Schumacher flop, number 23, is just another in the line of predictable, even ridiculous horror movies to come out over the last ten years With Jim Carrey. with lead, which, in the past there was some excellent pieces as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and show never really Trueman, come to be in this movie. Two out of five stars.

Friday the 13th (2009)
The original Friday the 13th was an absolute masterpiece, so this is always confusing because some executives take what is broken, and then effectively destroyed.With a huge budget and extended station group the reins, the modern version feels very nice and ' perfect ' to do any justice to the original, the gritty, B-movie feel given to a huge degree of air, and in the process, because it merely another teen movie creators from anything remember. two of the five stars.

Alien vs. Predator (2004)
As perhaps the most Alien and Predator franchise fan I know, it was incredibly excited to see the two share the screen with an epic show down; however, Paul w. s. Anderson manages to remove all the exhilaration that provide these two original characters in their own films, which can result in a very painful and exhausting experience.One of the five stars.

The ring two (2005)
After the monumental success of The Ring, which has been touted as one of the most terrible movies of all time-was, I must add-many come to see the continuation with high hopes, many have been quite disappointed. shocking and tense atmosphere of the original overridden with inconvenient, filler and there was only boring nothing left to tide the public during the five two stars.

The Wicker Man (2006)
A remake of a classic horror, the modern day version of The Wicker Man has developed a cult like following its. Described as having some of the poorest witness even acting, The Wicker Man is known more for comedic value then the horror, as actor Nicholas Cage bumbles through lead almost deliberately. This is the finest overacting and if it wasn't that serious was going to be a true horror movie, it would be one of the best horror satire genre movies I've seen ever. one of the five stars.

There were some amazing horror films over the last decade, but there were also some bad horrifically movies, too, this is simply the nature of the item.

Nostalgia: b&w Halloween horror Hits

Nostalgia

When it came to my father's movie theatres in the small western Illinois towns of
Carthage and Warsaw, I was one puerile youth who bubbled over with promotional ideas on how to locally ballyhoo the low-budget horror films he played.

The Warsaw Theatre, a Quonset hut building on Main Street in a town of two thousand people overlooking the Mississippi River, was, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, open only on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights and sometimes played a different picture each night. The Woodbine Theatre in Carthage, twenty miles east of the river and with a larger population, tried to remain open every night, but rarely played a single film as long as a week. In the Warsaw Theatre, my father often ran double-feature material - older films and re-issues, eighty minute color westerns billed with black-and-white "lower half" films. Occasionally, when he listened to my pleas, he would run horror films, and these were the films I would go out of my way to promote. This was a very small town, so our limited resources left me with a few opportunities to be imaginative, creating lobby displays, storefront cardboard displays, and telephone posters - all made of cardboard and ink.

Some horror films of the era, however, came equipped with their own promotional gimmicks - the most well-known being those created by schlock director and producer William Castle. His first gimmick was in 1958, a promo involving a Lloyd's of London insurance policy covering the movie patron in the unlikely event that he or she died of fright while watching MACABRE.

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MACABRE is a small-budgeted but tightly paced black-and-white thriller with a few shots inserted for obvious shock value: a bloody faced corpse which falls over inside a mausoleum, a small dummy corpse with a skull face in a casket shown during a funeral at night, the sudden hand on the shoulder of a doctor who is searching through a cemetery for his daughter who has supposedly been buried alive. The final resolution is perhaps the biggest shock of all, perhaps because it is quite plausible. Greedy human beings, such as in the next Castle film HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, are the real horrors, not supernatural beings. Nonetheless, the shocks are still effective - at least for audiences not requiring gore (as in the remake of the film with the same title). To this date, only two Castle films have been remade with updated gore: HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL and THIRTEEN GHOSTS. Teen audiences today, at least in America, would probably find the original versions of the films to be quite tame.*

When Allied Artist's MACABRE played at the Warsaw Theatre, I ordered extra 8 x 10 still photos from the film from National Screen Service and decorated the window of a local drug store with a cardboard cut-out cemetery. I drew my own tombstones, but the druggist balked when I wrote the names of local people on the graves. I meant it as a joke, but black humor (sick humor) was not in.

* In the same year, Hammer Films released its version of the Dracula story with the title, in the US, HORROR OF DRACULA. In 1958, it was startling to some audiences and quite tame to others. When I showed the film in the 1990s to a college class in Atlanta, they found it to be slow-paced in spots and not very frightening or shocking. However, when I showed the film to a British literature class in China in 2004, several college girls asked to be dismissed from the classroom. They were thoroughly frightened, and I was shocked by their reaction.

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Despite my cardboard artistry, however, the film attracted only a small portion of our small population. We had the usual football games as competition.

For a Halloween midnight showing one year, Dad played two hokey horror films geared for teenage audiences: I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN and THE RETURN OF DRACULA. For this late 1950s double-bill, I constructed a cardboard castle over one of the inside exits next to the screen and ran a wire from it to the projection booth. I draped a section of white sheet over a hangar and tied a string to the hanger. During a high point of one of the films, I stood in the exit and pulled on the string, hoping to pull the ghost across the top of the audience. The ghost came out of the projection booth window on cue, but the hanger stuck halfway down. I jerked harder on the string and it snapped, leaving my deus ex machina suspended above the audience until the end of the showing when the houselights revealed my attempted stunt.

More successful was my huge cobweb made out of regular white yarn that I draped over the doorways and the one-sheet and 14 x 36 frames in the lobby.

Both I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTIEN and THE RETURN OF DRACULA feature their own internal gimmicks - the use of color in otherwise black-and-white films. One may recall how a short color segment was used in the 1940s films THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY and THE PORTRAIT OF JENNY; in each case, only the portrait of the title character was shown in color in sharp contrast with the rest of the film. Both inserted shots are quite effective. Less can be said the use of color in the aforementioned Halloween hits. In the Frankenstein film, color is used only at the end when the monster destroys himself through shock therapy. The scene is not shocking, only surprising (as in Why?).

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The Dracula film, a much more frightening film (because of skillful directing and editing, not internal gimmicks), uses color for the close shot where vampire hunters plunge a stake into the heart of a female vampire. Color gushing out of a heart wound in this black-and-white film is much more effective as a shocking contrast than the sudden jolt of color used in Castle's THE TINGLER, which shows a bathtub filled with blood and a human arm reaching out to a woman who is deathly afraid of the sight of blood.

In 1960, Nikolai Gogal's short story "The Vij" was transformed into an Italian horror film by shock-for-shock's sake director Mario Bava. The film was released in the US as BLACK SUNDAY (and THE MASK OF SATAN in Europe). BLACK SUNDAY was later used as the title of a John Frankenheimer film which dealt with pre-9-11 terrorists trying to decimate a football stadium full of fans. The first BLACK SUNDAY was released by American-International Pictures, a company famous for producing its own low-budgeted but heavily promoted quickies like I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN.

The 1960s BLACK SUNDAY, however, is unlike other formula flicks for teens at the drive-in theatres. Clever if self-conscious camera work utilizes an abundance of zoom lens shots and focuses our attention on the gamut of gothic trappings brought to life in low key black-and-white; some of the scenes feature stark imagery as crisp as anything shown in Antonioni's L'AVVENTURA, while others effectively use soft focus to create a nightmarish world. It is almost a textbook of gothic examples: black-robed hooded figures executing witches with a spike-studded mask before the titles are even shown, paintings changing and rotating to reveal secret passageways, trap doors opening onto pits with long spikes at the bottom, lanterns floating in mid-air, corpses found hanging in corridors, and huge bats flying around in the crypt.

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Barbara Steele, identified in many Italian horror flicks (and even in Fellini's landmark film 8 ½) and Roger Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum, plays two roles in BLACK SUNDAY, a witch executed in the pre-title sequence and a lovely princess menaced by her look-alike witch ancestor who is accidentally brought back to life. When the witch is brought to life two hundred years after her execution, her lovely face, and the face of her vampire lover, is covered with the holes made by the spikes in the mask. A doctor visiting her tomb discovers her coffin and unwittingly breaks the glass over her mask-encased face by striking at a large bat. He cuts his hand on the broken glass, creating an unlikely chain of events: blood from his cut drips conveniently into the eye socket of the reposing witch, the cross over her coffin has been accidentally demolished, and her coffin is blown free as if dynamited.

Zoom lenses are used effectively throughout - an unusual feat in itself since the temptation is to overuse that lens, something that the Italians became famous for doing in later films. When the witch's vampire-lover glides into a room, the father of the innocent princess holds up a cross. The camera zooms back from the cross, and as the vampire is repelled, the camera lens zooms in on the door as it closes behind him.

The greatest flaw in the film is the poorly post-dubbed dialogue, reminding small-town theatre and drive-in audiences that even the presence of Brits Barbara Steele and John Richardson portraying characters with long Russian names cannot conceal the fact that this is an Italian film. By this time, they were gradually being exposed to the long-running series of films made in color from Edgar Allen Poe stories, so the foreign cast and black-and-white footage might have been comparatively disappointing. The Poe films needed no ballyhooing, but for BLACK SUNDAY, I did take illustrations from the large press book and paste them onto large cardboard posters accompanied by my hand-lettering.

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One American film produced many years before BLACK SUNDAY and promoted with the usual ballyhoo - the title and advertisements having little to do with the content - was the ultra low-budget Roger Corman film THE UNDEAD (1956). For example, the title would hardly suggest that this is actually a type of time-travel film, one that I showed in a science-fiction time-travel class.

Once again, witches are on hand. Instead of being dispatched by spike-studded masks, however, they are beheaded by a muscular (but still hooded) executioner. Readers of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" might be surprised to see Satan make an appearance during a Walpurgis Night orgy of corpse dancing and soul-trading. To welcome Satan to the festivities in his honor, the severed head of a tavern-owner must be delivered by buxom witch Allyson Hayes. She and her gnome-like friend Billy Barty can transform themselves into black cats or flying bats whenever they find it necessary to do so.

Despite the presence of shape-shifting witches, the film's theme includes reincarnation and regression (a form of time travel). Pamela Duncan is regressed through her past lives to medieval England where she is falsely accused of being a witch. She is faced with the choice of putting her head down on the execution block with other accused witches and thus allowed herself to be reincarnated in future lives, or of escaping with her handsome knight lover and alter the future. This execution scene, with only the thump of the basket to suggest the beheadings, is well-done, particularly for a low-budget film.

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Some local stations and some cable networks might occasionally run these films that were once part of dusk-to-dawn drive in movie fare or special Halloween shows like my father used to run. If you are fortunate, you might be able to find these old black-and-white classic horror films in DVD catalogues. Then you can have your own living room dusk-to-dawn marathons for those friends of yours who appreciate films that are frightening in a subtle way and didn't need to be grossed out with gruesome NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and FRIDAY THE 13TH killings. You can even make cobwebs out of string and hang them about the sofa.

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