Well, horror movies need only have a few elements to make them workable.
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Halloween is coming Saturday, and what better way to spend the holiday than with a bunch of scary movies.
“But, overall, a more damaging effect may be what we refer to as lingering emotional disturbances that people may have after seeing something particularly upsetting”.
The Horror Film Festival, which is held at McLennan Community College, shows older, more obscure horror films to Waco audiences.
A Clockwork Orange is admittedly a little more sci-fi than horror, although chief droog Alex has proven to be a very popular Halloween costume over the years. They’ve likely used a common viewing platform like Netflix to reel you in, then promptly insulted your intelligence by offering a bunch of suggestions that even the most neophytic horror fan could tell you was a staple of the genre. Titles are curated by “horror aficionados” lead by Colin Geddes, with new additions added each month.
This service has just about any kind of movie that piques your interest in the genre. This film is The slasher movie of all slasher movies. There are four movies total, so you can watch all of them and have a movie marathon! Suffice to say, what was once a novel concept has somewhat lost it’s spark now that Hollywood has got it’s hands on it, and if the umpteenth Paranormal Activity sequel doesn’t appeal to you, it’s worth sticking with this relatively underrated (even though it has been remade by the USA into Quarantine) Spanish found footage film which blends zombie horror and an intensely claustrophobic setting to provide a constantly suspenseful ride. The monsters from “Monsters vs. Aliens” also have to take on alien pumpkins.
However, unlike other more mainstream platforms, Shudder does not offer original content-at least not yet. I saw Halloween premiere in Eau Claire on Halloween night with a theater full of my college peers.
Simply click on the Shudder.tv tab to automatically play the program.
WALDRON: So are you a fan of scary movies?
The scariest part of the movie for me is that as of October 26, it grossed more than double its budget in revenue at the box office.
We like horror movies to experience things we don’t normally feel or see because we like to imagine life differently for a little bit. Most rentals are $3.99 for 24 hours, but this year’s cult horror hit It Follows is streaming for just 99 cents. But also, the movie is very dreamlike. In recent times, however, the industry has been experimenting with a variety of genres, especially horror, which had always been treated with disdain.
Horror movies are nearly the opposite of that, but still attract people for the same reason-to feel scared, nervous or enjoy in the torment of others in a fictional setting. Though Bollywood does not produce as many horror films as Hollywood, a lot of the Hindi horror films have done extremely well at the box-office, like Raaz, Raaz 2, Ragini MMS, Ragini MMS 2, 13B, and 1920. That whole series of scary movie send-ups, Scary Movie, isn’t so far off from the ridiculousness of the real scary movies.
For those of you still feeling too high-brow for all this fun, there are arty scares out there too.
The icing on the cake is our villain Michael Myers.
So, what does Netflix have to tempt you into tuning in – or subscribing? If you don’t remember this series then I don’t know what you read as a child, but, Netflix actually has the series Goosebumps, which you can not go wrong with. Instead of an opera house in turn-of-the-century France, “Paradise” takes place in the nightclub scene of 1970s New York, where composer Winslow (William Finley) sells his soul in a Faustian reach for success.
This bone-chilling movie will have you thinking twice before you pick up your next call.
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“We’ve been scaring ourselves forever-from scary stories around the campfire to jumping off cliffs, to sledding down hills, we’ve always chased the thrill”.
