Scary movies and books

Many movies have become popular. However, other movies have not, such as not so good Japanese remake Shutter or not so good but better House of Wax. Movies are either thought of or come from a good book. Horror has come such a long way but most of horror films came from good writers such as Stephen King, Steve Niles or Richard Matheson. Some of the greatest books that are horror come from the famous Stephen King. According to mid continental public library the Horror film 1408 came from a book from Stephen King and was a good one about a frightening hotel room that was haunted. Other Horror books from Stephen King are The Boogeyman, Children of the corn, Graveyard Shift, the scary Pet Sematary and The Shining. Stephen King is one of a kind storywriter. Other great author is Steve Niles. Steve Niles wrote the story of 30 days of night. 30 days of night is a setting from Alaska where it gets night for 30 days and evil devil like humans come to town and kill them for food and fun. Richard Matheson wrote the story I Am Legend. The book came out in 1954 then it became a hit movie in 2007. On good movie that came out in 1997 called I know what you did last summer was a book by Lois Duncan that he had wrote in 1973. According to cinematical.com, one of the best films of 2008 was The Ruins. Author Scott B. Smith wrote the book and he had written the book Simple plan, which is a good movie as well. More and more movies are becoming remakes and books are becoming on screen more and more which come from bestselling authors on the market. The Ruins was a gruesome film but it was still interesting to watch. Here is a short trailer of The Ruins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKcCXyi7Pjs

Music and Sound Effects

One of the main reasons why scary movies are so scary is because of the type of music or sound effects they make during a nasty scene or a killing scene. In the movie Psycho one of the best scenes ever is when a women is about to be killed in a shower. While the killer is about to emerge to kill the women high-pitch string instruments are played while the killer does his knife strokes. Many horror movies have used high pitch instrumental scenes. According to filmsound.org the movie Jaws uses long low bass sounds which give your heart a pumping when the huge killer sharks come to get the human flesh. Ever wonder how arms and legs are broken into half or when rib just breaks into half in a horror movie. Well these noises come from the vegetable salary. For bone, cracking sounds, salary is used for those sounds. A lot of fruits and vegetables are used in horror movies to make their sounds. When a man skull is about to be crushed they used pistachio being crush on a metal plane. When bullets are being hit on a metal bar or onto a metal plate, a dog eating a dog food in a can makes those sounds. The most common music used in horror films is orchestra music. Violins and pianos are good for the music industry or horror. Here is a lovely good sound used off the soundtrack in the horror movie Ghost Ship http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGt7vg_sDLk. However, orchestra is not the only genre they use in horror movies they also use alternative rock that is my favorite kind of music. They also use heavy metal rock as a popular genre. One of the most famous sounds in horror is the three-note piano melody used in the movie Halloween. Piano is one of the good ways to get a heart pounding freighting experience. Here is an example of the sound in the movie Halloween .

How Much Horror Makes

As the remake of Friday the 13th finishes off the first weekend in theaters, how much money do you think it would have made? 10, 20 , 30 or even 40 million dollars I think Friday the 13th is going to make about 20 to 30 million but we will find out soon. Many movies have been made and some have made a lot of money but others did not make enough money, as they wanted to have. The highest Gross Movie ever made is of course is Titanic. Titanic made more than 600 million dollars and that was back in 1997. The most recent best film ever made is The Dark Knight, which made about 529 million. Horror movies are not in the top ten best gross films of all time but one made the top 30. According to movieweb.com, The Sixth Sense made 293 billion dollars in U.S gross domestic ranking. After The Sixth Sense was the 1975 hit Jaws. Jaws made an astonishing 260 million dollars and were a surprising hit from its suspenseful sharks. The Third best gross horror movie is The Exorcist. I remember when I saw the exorcist I could not sleep for days because I kept on thinking the little girl that had the demon in her. The scary scene I remember is the spider walk the little girl makes when she comes down the stairs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-4f_NMUxcY&feature=related4f_NMUxcY&feature=related . The Exorcist made a good 232 million dollars much better than The Blair Witch Project at 140 million dollars. One other movie I got really freak out in my own bed was The Ring. The Ring made 128 million dollars and after I saw that movie, I could not sleep and I always thought about that little girl in the movie that she was going to get me in my sleep. Movies have come a long way and have made millions and billions of dollars for Universal, Warner Brothers, and Fox plus other major movie companies.

Monsters and Bad Boys

As I talked about Famous actors in my last post I got interested in what kind of Horror Monsters and bad guys have been in films. Monsters from The Wolf Man to Frankenstein to today’s Predator or Aliens have created a sense of fear in movies. Bad Guys or according to best-horror-movies.com which states bad guys as “Meanies” have also gave horror movies to the next level of fear. Coming from old timers Nosferatu to Jason and Michal Meyers in today’s Theaters. Back in 1941, the Wolf Man had been created which was about a wolf man haunting Talbot Castle. The film was a hit thus then Werewolf was created in 1956. One scary monster that haunted teenage boys and girls in their sleep is Nightmare on Elm Street. Freddy Krueger was the monster who haunted your fears in your dreams; he had knives in his hand and could never be killed. Nightmare on Elm Street stunned and scared people when it was released in 1987. Here a good Link of what the movie is about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQrYE97Oyf0 More monsters were created such as the movie Clover field. I personally did not like Clover field because you barely get clinches of the monster terrorizing the city and the hand held camera involvement. Going into bad boys or “meanies” in horror films my personal favorite is The Texas Chainsaw massacre rating were well for this movie which was a remake of the original one from 1974. Heres a Trailer of the 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285ImXTYdsg Jason also Michel Meyers were bad boys slasher teen movies. Jason has many movies and Michel Meyers as well. Jason or Friday the 13 is about a bad boy with a hockey mask and a giant machedy who comes from evil to kill kids from Camp Crystal Lake. Michal Meyers is about a bad boy who had a bad child life who just likes to hurt people and the feeling from what he gets from it. Without Monsters or Bad Boys in horror films I don’t think I would like movies in general.

Famous Actors in Horror Films

There are a lot famous actors making movies, but how did they start becoming famous? The answer is Horror Films. Most Famous actors and actresses start making movies with horror. An example of an actor playing in a film then he becomes famous later on is actor Jim Carrey. According to http://horror.about.com/od/horroractorsandactresses/ig/Before-They-Were-Stars/ it states that Jim Carrey played in a horror comedy movie called Once Bitten in 1989.Once Bitten was about a virgin teen that was seduce by vampires. One that I found interested to me is sexy and beautiful Jennifer Aniston. Before Jennifer was making movies and being in the popular show Friends, she made a horror movie first. Jennifer Aniston played in the movie Leprechaun, a horror movie about a little leprechaun haunting people and actor Aniston. One other fascinating Actor that I did not know that he was in a horror movie is Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt Played as a high school kid trying to avoid from being sliced and killed in the movie Cutting class in 1989. If you like to see a small preview of this slashed killing movie click this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiU3Eo6PGB0. One day if you like to become an actor, maybe you should start in a horror movie because most of the famous actors today have come from a horror flick or some sort of haunting movie. Some other actors that I could name and are famous now are Josh Harnett in Halloween H20 and Josh Holloway from lost. Josh Holloway who is famous from the hit com Lost played as a co- star in a Sci Fi movie called SabreTooth. Josh biggest row to date came from the movie SabreTooth in 2002. Here is a preview of the show SabreTooth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T3sGNNAwTA. As actors and actresses continue to make movies now we know a little of where they started.

History of Horror films

Horror films have lots of history. People like to scare other people just cause. Even as a kid we were always interested in those scary stories our elders would tell us over campfires or just at home by ourselves. We like these stories because of the rush and the adrenalin they give us making us want more and more of the story on what is going to happen next. The first monster movie is The Golem, which was made in 1915 and is about a solid clay man who starts to destroy people. The next movie was made in 1919 called The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. The Cabinet of Caligari was the first movie to make a scary setting of a maniac. The maniac film became haunting for many viewers in 1919. The next film I am going to talk about is one of my old favorite’s horror films of all time. That movie is called Nosferatu. Nosferatu became popular in 1922 and was the first vampire movie. It became some sort of movie just like the movie we know, as Dracula here is a link where u can watch a clip of Nosferatu YouTube - Nosferatu (1922) Trailer . Horror began to become more popular in the 1930’s with popular movies coming out like Dracula in 1931 and Frankenstein in 1931 as well. Other movies that came out are the Mummy, Freaks, King Kong, The Bride of Frankenstein and Mad scientist according to horrorfimhistory.com. As films began to become more and more popular so were ideas as well. The forties kicked of with wolf movies and cat movies. Then in the fiftys there were movies made from creatures. In the 1960 a popular film called Psycho became one of scariest psycho killers of all time. As movies became better and horror became more realistic getting to watch a movie at these days are good.

Horror films

Horror films have given people an exciting and scary feeling. These feelings can occur in movie theaters, people houses, or in your own house. The definition of horror films are unsettling films design to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears. Thats according to http://www.filmsite.org/horrorfilms.html. These films make our heart beat faster, and at the same time were so interested on whats gonna pop out on the tv screen or whats gonna come at us. Ive been watching horror films since I can remember. I really like watching these films because im always interested on what is gonna happen next on the film. Horror films often go to there darkside, a side where evil comes loose. Watching scary creatures or even old ladies coming at you is a very scary feeling. I like the fact how directors can make something that your comfortable at, then making that scene into a scary one. Some examples are like in your bedroom or in the shower. Scenes such as the movie Phyco where the killer is about to kill a girl in the shower made me feel that even in the safest places you can be killed at anytime and anywhere. Watching that movie made me feel how frightning a movie can become into. Now that i have watch so many horror movies i know many that are good and also many that are not. Horror films have been set since the past 100 years when we started to see scary shadows and aslo think of ghost in our minds. But what horror films have become now they keep on getting better and better. Making our minds and heart beat faster and faster i really like that feeling, just like a roller coaster ride.