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Jen Reacts: The Houses October Built I and II
Let's just jump right into it. I'm watching the first installment of The Houses October Built (2014). It is a found-footage film that centers around five friends hitting the road in a RV in search of the ultimate haunted house experience one Halloween.
By Jen Chichester6 years ago in Horror
The love of my death
You think you can escape from me? I will never let that happen. You are mine, oh love. I first saw you across the street, and you caught my eye. Immediately, you had my heart. From that first moment I could not back off.
By Karen Cave6 years ago in Horror
Ought to Have Remained Hidden: Psychoanalytic Theory in Us (2019)
WARNING: Spoilers for Us (2019) and Psycho (1960) In 1816, German writer Ernst Hoffmann published the short story “Der Sandmann”. The story revolves around a man named Nathanael who still lives with his childhood fear of having his eyes stolen by the titular Sandman, and in adulthood, meets a man who bears an eerie resemblance to the Sandman, thus plunging him into mania. The story was later cited in Sigmund Freud's 1919 essay "The Uncanny". In this essay, Freud elaborates on the uncanny (unheimlich in his native German), or that which is strangely familiar, a concept previously developed by philosopher F.W.J Schelling and psychiatrist Ernst Jentsch. Freud states in the essay that "According to (Schelling), everything that is unheimlich that ought to have remained secret and hidden but has been brought to light." 144 years later, in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock released arguably his most iconic film, Psycho, which was dubbed "the first psychoanalytic thriller" by Serge Kaganski in his 1997 book Hitchcock.
By jenny6 years ago in Horror
Under The Rug
It's not uncommon for people to go missing in our town. At least one kid leaves or goes missing each month. It's hard to think so many of the people walking down the street have lost someone or had someone leave them. But everyone gets used to it eventually, if they don’t, they just choose to leave as well and start over.
By Kaylee E6 years ago in Horror
The Brush
"Come on guys, you're really not scared to go in there are you?" Karen and her friends are walking home from school one autumn evening, when Karen decided to go on a little adventure; to the old Dorchester house.
By Shay Moffett6 years ago in Horror
Bigfoot
Is Bigfoot real or fake? This creature has his own FBI file what does that mean? First let's talk about what people think Bigfoot is. Some classify Bigfoot as a big ape that walks upright, some have said he is a wild man. But whatever this creature is, it has put a big impact on a number of people.
By The Great Unknown From the South6 years ago in Horror
Haunted House on Buller street
It was 2014, 15th July. The day we moved in. The old yellow house on Buller street was our first home in New Zealand, and it was haunted.
By Claire Melanie Ogg6 years ago in Horror
Conversations With Creators: Shaun Molloy Art
Welcome to the first instalment of the new Conversations with Creators series. To kick things off we’re having a chat with Shaun Molloy. Shaun is a professional artist that creates digital art inspired largely by horror and nature. He also owns alternative clothing store Fear The Reaper Clothing and has created a number of pierces of artwork for my stories.
By A. N. Merchant 6 years ago in Horror
Establishing the Corkscrew: Visual Film-making in 'The Wretched'
In the new horror movie, The Wretched, there is a scene in which directors, Brett and Drew Pierce, have a scene featuring a corkscrew. This corkscrew will have no significance in the long run. Our antagonist, that we will simply refer to as ‘Wretched,’ has taken the form of one of our protagonists. Wretched is using this female form to deceive another character and enact an enchantment upon them.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Horror
Discovering V.C. Andrews: Part One - Inspiration and Influences
When I was nineteen and a year away from starting my first year of university to study screenwriting, Flowers in the Attic caught my eye in a bookstore. The name was vaguely familiar and I remembered my English teacher recommending it to a friend, but neither of us was keen on reading a book about abuse and incestuous relationships at fourteen. Although ironically I was in the midst of reading the House of Night series by PC and Kristen Cast, which tackled similarly dark themes.
By Ted Ryan6 years ago in Horror
Dr. Spain's Horror Review: "Ghost of Camp Blood"
I’d like to preface this by saying that I have seen a lot of bad films in my life. There’s a certain part of me that has a self-destructive need to discover movies of surpassingly poor quality, and that’s given me a real insight into just how terrible a work of visual medium can be while still qualifying as a film. I’m saying this because I want to provide a good level of context for the second part of this sentence when I say that Ghost of Camp Blood is not only the worst film I’ve ever seen in my life, but also the worst thing that’s ever personally happened to me.
By David Spain6 years ago in Horror
Dear Diary
The diary was old and battered, and empty when she found it. It was tan coloured and leather-bound and smelt amazing. She'd run her hands over the surface and it felt smooth but wrinkled, like skin. As soon as she saw it she felt drawn to it, and as soon as she touched it she knew she had to have it.
By Karen Cave6 years ago in Horror