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Horror films are movies that strive to elicit fear, horror and terror from viewers. In horror film plots, evil forces, events, or characters, sometimes of supernatural origin, intrude into the everyday world. Horror movies usually include a central villain. Early horror films often drew inspiration from characters and stories from classic literature, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, Phantom of the Opera and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Later horror films, in contrast, often drew inspiration from the insecurities of life after World War II, giving rise to the three distinct, but related, sub-genres: the horror-of-personality film, the horror-of-Armageddon film, and the horror-of-the-demonic film. The last sub-genre may be seen as a modernized transition from the earliest horror films, expanding on their emphasis on supernatural agents that bring horror to the world.

Horror films have been criticized for their graphic violence and dismissed as low budget B-movies and exploitation films. Nonetheless, all the major studios and many respected directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick and Francis Ford Coppola, have made forays into the genre. Serious critics have analyzed horror films through the prisms of genre theory and the auteur theory. Some horror films incorporate elements of other genres such as science fiction, fantasy, mockumentary, black comedy, and thrillers. Read more …

Let There Be Light (Written By: Book of Thoth)

1:1 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 - And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
1:3 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
1:4 - And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
~Genesis

The above passage is undoubtedly one of the most memorable and universal grouping of words ever to be assembled. For millennia we have given a special precedence to “light” as being the epitome of goodness, of “God”, of the creative source - ever opposed to darkness and the forces of evil. It is the representation of Gilgamesh fighting Humbaba, Horus in eternal battle with his brother Set, the light of Jesus battling the dark influence of Satanic forces (or the “Luciferian” principle, in which Lucifer is masked in light, albeit a counterfeit version according to Christian traditions). Read more …

Dark Figure Haunts Visitors To Oxford Castle

A photograph, which has captured a dark figure taken in the foreboding underground Crypt at Oxford Castle Unlocked, has revealed the paranormal does exist and confirms beliefs that the Castle is haunted. The photograph was taken on Friday 16 May by a member of the public at a ghost hunt organised by Fright Nights, the UK’s leading ghost hunt specialist.

The brave ghost hunter, who was alone in the Crypt at the time, took the photograph with his digital camera. Keiron Brown from Alton in Hampshire was astonished to see the dark shadow of a figure at the end of the corridor leading into the Crypt when he looked at the images on his computer after the event.

The astounding photograph has since been analysed by experts at Fright Nights and at Oxford Castle Unlocked. Martin Jeffrey, Director of Fright Nights stated “We were amazed by this photograph. Our analysts have shown that the figure is jet black and unusually not lit up by the flash, whereas the side walls and the wall behind it have visible lighting caused by the flash.

We can also confirm that the figure is facing the camera and seems to have some form of hood, head dress or blindfold. We know that the Crypt was used for the storing of criminals especially those waiting execution, so the figure fits perfectly within the history of the Castle. Read more …

Dance of the Dead (V), Poster and Synopsis

“Prom. It’s their Night to Come Alive!”

SYNOPSIS

On the night of the big High-School Prom, the dead rise to eat the living, and the only people who can stop them are the losers who couldn’t get dates to the dance.

MOVIE REVIEW

“DANCE explodes like a shotgun blast of pure teen comedy and devastates everything in its path with a battery of torn off limbs, bashed in brains, severed spinal cords and a night at the prom that makes CARRIE look like PRETTY IN PINK… DANCE OF THE DEAD is the best horror comedy of this or any other year. Now bring it on!”

Dance of the Dead (V)
UK, May 21, 2008 - Dance of the Dead is a low-budget comedy horror gem playing at this year’s Cannes Festival. Already a hit at America’s SXSW festival, the film takes the simple equation that ‘zombies plus prom equals laughs’, and runs with it for 90 minutes of pure, unadulterated fun.

The plot is as ridiculous as horror plots get, revolving around discharge from a power plant bringing the residents of a local cemetery back to life. It also happens to be prom time, with the pupils of Cosa High School holding their Hawaiian Hula Dance, and when the zombies munch their way through much of the town and eventually reach the school, all hell, quite literally, breaks loose. Read more …

Carl Jung and the Philosophy of the Occult

“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”
~Jung

Most of us are aware that the influential icon of Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), an early disciple of Sigmund Freud, was the founder of modern day analytical psychology. However, sometimes overlooked are Jung’s associations with what we might deem the “occult” and “paranormal”, placing him side by side such popularized purveyors of mysticism as Aleister Crowley, Helena Blavatsky, and Edgar Cayce.

While many of his contemporaries might have seen this as Jung’s finally “going off the deep end”, he was still widely regarded as one of the utmost intellectualists of his day, and his legitimacy in scientific fields greatly helped in bringing much needed validity and seriousness to certain areas of parapsychology and psychic phenomena.

Jung himself was the only son of a Swiss Reformed Church evangelical minister, who was obsessed by religion from early childhood. He reportedly would often fantasize that God required him to think repulsive thoughts as a condition for the bestowal of grace. Jung believed that the origin point for his own intellectual life stemmed from a dream he had at the age of three in which he descended into the ground and witnessed a giant phallic object sitting on a golden throne. In the dream his mother told him, “That’s the man-eater”, and he awoke in the youthful terror of a cold sweat. Jung, who is noted as often playing in churches and cemeteries, came to associate this enthroned phallus as the figure of Jesus Christ, whom he heard invoked each time new bodies were put into the ground. Both elements of this reoccurring dream were aspects of the dark and primordial forces of creation that he pursued for the rest of his life. Read more …

Horror Pictures, Horror Pictures Poetic and Artistic

Poetic

Ivan Kramskoy’s “Unconsolable Grief”: In many cultures, wearing of dark colors shows griefAs a poetic term, darkness can also mean the presence of shadows, evil, or depression.

Darkness can have a strong psychological impact. It can cause depression in people with seasonal affective disorder, fear in nyctophobics, comfort in lygophilics, or attraction as in gothic fashion. These emotions are used to add power to literary imagery.

Religious texts often use darkness to make a visual point. In the Bible, darkness was the second to last plague (Exodus 10:21) and the location of “weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 8:12) The Qur’an has been interpreted to say that those who transgress the bounds of what is right are doomed to “burning despair and ice-cold darkness.” (Nab 78.25) In Greek Mythology, three layers of night surround Tartarus, a place for the worst sinners as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above earth.

The Hindu goddess Kalí (black, dark colored) is also closely associated with darkness and violence, though she is equally associated with motherhood and benevolence.

In Chinese philosophy Yin is the feminine part of the Taijitu and is represented by a dark lobe.

The use of darkness as a rhetorical device has a long standing tradition. Shakespeare, working in the 16th and 17th centuries, made a character call Satan the “prince of darkness” (King Lear: III, iv) and gave darkness jaws with which to devour love. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream: I, i) Chaucer, a 14th century Middle English writer, wrote that knights must cast away the “workes of darkness.” Dante described hell as “solid darkness stain’d.” Read more …

Return to Sleepaway Camp (V), Poster, Synopsis and Trailer

SYNOPSIS

It’s summer camp as usual at Camp Manabe where the kids torment each other for fun while the underpaid camp staff provide as little supervision as possible. Greedy camp owner Frank (Vincent Pastore) and junior partner Ronnie (Paul DeAngelo) do their best to keep everyone in line, but something sinister is about to put a slash in the roster. When campers and staff mysteriously begin disappearing and turning into gruesome corpses, paranoid Ronnie can’t shake the memory of a series of grisly murders that took place at Camp Arawak where he worked 2 decades ago. Has a “ghost” from the past come back to haunt him?

Release Date: October 14, 2008
Director: Robert Hiltzik
Writer: Robert Hiltzik
Starring: Vincent Pastore Jonathan Tiersten Paul DeAngelo Isaac Hayes Adam Wylie Mary Elizabeth King Paul Iacono Felissa Rose CKY
Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment.

Finally after 5 long years we will finally get to see the true sequel to the most shocking horror movie of all time. Tuesday October 14, 2008. Currently available on amazon.com for $19.9

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