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The Horror Genre
Did you that it cost 320.2 million U.S. dollars to create “The Conjuring 2” which is one of the top rated horror movies of 2016? The horror genre is a genre that seeks the fear of viewers or readers by capering with ones intuition. The two types of horror are supernatural and parallel. These horror genres can have demons,ghost,unknown creatures,suspense,mystery,murder,zombies,insanity,internal/external forces,vampires or just anything that is out of the norm.These are just some basic figures and elements that can be put in a horror story.Two examples of horror stories are “The Monkey’s Paw” written by William Wymark Jacobs and “The Tell-Tale Heart” written by Edgar Allen Poe.In the “Monkey’s Paw” Sargent Morris stated that an old fakir placed a spell on the monkey’s paw so those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow. This shows foreshadowing,suspense,and mystery.In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator stated “I loved the old man. He …show more content…
The Supernatural category of the horror genre consists of two categories: Supernatural and Parallel. The Ghost,Demons,Angels,Vampires,Magic,Devils,Spirits,Gods,Telepathy,Telekinesis,Extra Scensory Perception,Clairvoyance,Pyrokinesis,Precognition,Postcognition,etc are all part of the Supernatural category.The Parallel caterory is a hypothetical self-contained reality co-existing with one's own.This means that a parallel universe can be similar to ours on Earth. “100 Cupboards” written by N.D. Wilson and “Sideways in Time” written by Murray Leinster are books based on a parallel universe.Movies based on the Parallel universe would be “ Frequency” created by Toby Emmrich and “Men in Black” created by Ed Solomon. “New Moon” written by Stephanie Meyer is a Supernatural book. “May” created by Lucky McKee.These are just a small fraction of the Supernatural and Parallel Universe movies and books.These two categories make up the basic foundation for the horror
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