Even before watching a horror movie, we know its core purpose is to scare and shock people. Horror movies provide short anxieties, suspense, and jumpscare, with terrifying background…
Watching any movie especally horror in 2025 most people already have an idea of what it will be like. Modern horror usually follows certin visual and thematic patterns so even someone who has never seen…
Before watching a horror movie, we have the general understanding that we will be scared or unsettled for most of the movie. The main goal of a horror…
At first glance, it may seem that 28 Days Later (2002) and Sinners (2025) are similar only in genre. These are stories about different eras, different monsters, and,…
Until recent years, the horror genre has been facing a decline. After the initial boom of influential horror films such as Halloween (1978) and The Exorcist (1973), the…
Before anyone presses play on a horror movie, we already carry a whole backpack of expectations. We know the shadows will matter more than the light, that the…
“Indigenous artists have no problem portraying possible undesirable futures […] because these narratives are evocative to our known realities…we are living in a dystopian, settler-occupied oligarchy fueled by…
The basic conception of the horror genre is to spook the audience or viewers. Although, each horror movie differs with how they go about this. Some of the…
Horror movies have a very special importance in the world’s culture and is a genre usually associated with Halloween and fall as that’s when it starts to get…
What We Already Know About Horror Movies Before even pressing play on a horror movie, audiences carry expectations built through years of genre conventions. We anticipate fear, tension,…
Both Sinners (2025) and Rings (2017) use supernatural horror as a vehicle for deeper themes. But the two movies approach horror quite differently. Rings is about a curse…
Run Lola Run (1998) – Analysis Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) is a kinetic exploration of fate, chance, and decision. Through its tripartite narrative structure and…
The film’s narrative is its repetition of the same twenty-minute crisis three times, each replay with a different outcome. This structure functions as the central twist: repetition itself…
Prey portrays hunting as a framework for power, survival, and resistance, contrasting Indigenous knowledge with alien trophy hunting. Hunting functions as survival, communal training, and existential contest. The…
Lola’s First Run – The Fatal Ending What changes: The film begins with Lola receiving a frantic call from her boyfriend, Manni, who has lost 100,000 marks that…
Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey gives us a new contrast to the Predator series by taking the audience through a primal contest between hunter and hunted. While exploring the Northern…
Part A: Prey Analysis (500 words) Prey uses hunting as both a literal and metaphorical commentary on power, survival, and resistance. The Comanche characters (especially Naru and her…