In the earliest horror films, which were influenced by German Expressionist cinema, the effect of horror was usually created by means of a macabre atmosphere and theme; The Student of Prague (1913), an early German film dealing with a dual personality, and The Golem (1915), based on the medieval Jewish legend of a clay figure that comes to life, were the first influential horror films.
The pathologizing effect of horror is well documented in studies of children witnessing domestic violence [ 39] and soldiers witnessing atrocities [ 40, 41], but is often given less importance when assessing exposure in disaster survivors [ 42].
Three lives reflect how Srebrenica has changed and how the effects of its horror live on.
But as the physical effects of the horror were being buried, questions tormented the relatives and friends of the dead.
The impact of the other poems in the book is often so shocking and overwhelming, because of the violent, tightly packed, and allusive style and the frequent effects of nightmare horror, that his control may seem dubious.
Her fluent style in this work imitates Elizabethan and other archaic writing, and the chapters are disjunct in time and place; the net effect is of horror and black humour.
Perhaps this mainstreaming effect of gothic horror has something to do with nostalgia.
Li pans across this field of suffering with quiet, undistracted patience, assembling, in effect, an anthology of horror stories.
Special makeup devices can supply the performer with any desired facial feature, from the weird effects of science fiction and horror movies to the bruises, wounds, and scars of western and war films.
Against an audio backdrop of horror movie sound effects that at times drowns out the voiced narrative, the piece somehow manages to conflate Cory Booker and the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina.
