Top 1. 0 Horror Movies - Listverse. Movies and TVJamie Frater. September 2, 2. 00. Horror films have been criticized for their graphic violence and are often dismissed as low budget B- movies and exploitation films. Nonetheless, some major studios and respected directors have made forays into the genre. This is a list of the ten greatest horror films of all time. Ringu. After the death of her cousin Tomoko, reporter Reiko hears stories of a videotape that kills everyone who sees it exactly one week after viewing. At first she discounts the rumors, but when she learns that Tomoko’s friend (who watched the video with her) died at exactly the same time, she begins to investigate. After viewing the tape herself, strange things start happening, and so she teams up with her ex- husband to try to stop the death clock that has once again begun ticking. Buy this movie at Amazon. Or try the terrifying American version of The Ring at Amazon. Jaws. A Great White Shark decides to make the small beach resort town of Amity his private feeding grounds. This greatly frustrates the town police chief who wants to close the beaches to chase the shark away. He is thwarted in his efforts by the town’s mayor who finally relents when nothing else seems to work and the chief, a scientist, and an old fisherman with revenge on his mind take to the sea to kill the beast. Buy this movie at Amazon. Poltergeist. While living an an average family house in a pleasant neighborhood, the youngest daughter of the Freeling family, Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke), seems to be connecting with the supernatural through a dead channel on the televison. It is not for long when the mysterious beings enter the house’s walls. At first seeming like harmless ghosts, they play tricks and amuse the family, but they take a nasty turn- they horrify the family to death with angry trees and murderous dolls, and finally abduct Carol Anne into her bedroom closet, which seems like the entrance to the other side. Buy this movie at Amazon. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. En route to visit their grandfather’s grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch- hiker, eat some delicious home- cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home. Carrie. Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn’t make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of the whole school. What she doesn’t realise is that Carrie is . Les Diaboliques. The wife and mistress of a sadistic boarding school headmaster plot to kill him. They drown him in the bathtub and dump the body in the school’s filthy swimming pool. The exploration of fear is central to the horror genre. All horror books explore and provide a kind of commentary on different kinds of horror, and there are many out. Swan Song by Robert McCammon - McCammon is a marvel. He began his career writing fireballing horror books, morphed in midcareer to writing realist tales with dark. ![]() Rosemary’s Baby. Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in a building with a bad reputation. They discover that their neighbours are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a lot of time with them. Strange things start to happen: a woman Rosemary meets in the washroom dies a mysterious death, Rosemary has strange dreams and hears strange noises and Guy becomes remote and distant. Then Rosemary falls pregnant and begins to suspect that her neighbours have special plans for her child. Buy this movie at Amazon. Psycho. Marion Crane is a Phoenix, Arizona working girl fed up with having to sneak away during lunch breaks to meet her lover, Sam Loomis, who cannot get married because most of his money goes towards alimony. One Friday, Marion’s employer asks her to take $4. Desperate to make a change in her life, she impulsively leaves town with the money, determined to start a new life with Sam in California. As night falls and a torrential rain obscures the road ahead of her, Marion turns off the main highway. Exhausted from the long drive and the stress of her criminal act, she decides to spend the night at the desolate Bates Motel. The motel is run by Norman Bates, a peculiar young man dominated by his invalid mother. After Norman fixes her a light dinner, Marion goes back to her room for a shower. The Exorcist. Blatty’s novelization of a real case of possession that happened in a Washington Suburb (Mt. Ranier, MD) puts Regan, an adolescent girl, Living with her mother in Georgetown in Washington, into a more and more difficult situation. She exhibits strange symptoms, including levitation and great strength. When all medical possibilities are exhausted, her mother is sent to a priest who is also a psychiatrist. ![]() He becomes convinced that Regan is possessed and he and a second priest experienced in exorcism try to drive the spirit from Regan before she dies. Very graphic for its time. Buy this movie at Amazon. The Shining. Jack Torrance becomes the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel up in the secluded mountains of Colorado. Jack, being a family man, takes his wife and son to the hotel to keep him company throughout the long and isolated nights. During their stay strange things occur when Jack’s son Danny sees gruesome images powered by a force called “The Shining” and Jack is heavily affected by this. Along with writer’s block and the demons of the hotel haunting him Jack has a complete mental breakdown and the situation takes a sinister turn for the worse. Buy this movie at Amazon. Notable Others: Nosferatu, Dawn of the Dead, The Birds. Follow us on Facebook or subscribe to our. He spends his time working on the site, doing research for new lists, and collecting oddities. He is fascinated with all things historic, creepy, and bizarre. 5 Diary of a Wimpy Kid. This should NOT be in the top ten! Yes it is popular, but not a good read. It's not something that will keep you occupied and really you are. The Top 10 Most WTF Moments From “American Horror Story” (So Far). Comic books are notoriously difficult to make scary. They don’t have the advantage of sound to build atmosphere, and there is no possibility of jump-scares. Actor, writer, and gourmet, Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. Read More: Twitter. Facebook. Gab. ai. E- Mail. Recommended For Your Pleasure. The Top 1. 0 Elements of a Book People Want to Read. So you’ve got a great idea and you want to write a book. Go for it, I say, because these days, anyone can publish a book. Self- publishing empowers the writer in all of us. Nonetheless, quality still matters. Because we don’t just want to publish, we want to publish successfully; we want to publish books people want to read. And that takes more than a good idea. That takes craft. This guest blog is written by Helga Schier, Ph. D, former Big Five editor and founder of withpenandpaper. With over 2. 0 years of experience in the (self- )publishing industry, Helga guides authors through the development and revision process. Helga’s editorial work focuses on the refinement of story, character, and stylistic issues, helping writers unlock the potential of their manuscripts. She works with published, self- published, and not- yet- published writers of fiction and non- fiction. Helga has published essayistic works on contemporary English and American fiction, and has translated several screenplays, memoirs, and a novel series. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. For more information, visit withpenandpaper. Aim for High Readability. People enjoy books with a high level of readability—books with a captivating story and memorable characters, books we can’t put down, books that stick with us long after we’ve read the last word. As an independent editor, I’ve come across my fair share of readable books, and all of them are well crafted on three distinct but intricately connected levels. The surface structure of the words on the page, which includes grammar, punctuation, and spelling. The level of style and voice, which is defined by the choice of words, the sentence rhythm, the use of literary techniques and images, and the tone or approach. The content level, where the fictional world comes to life. Highly readable books are polished, refined, sophisticated, and mature on all three levels. To fulfill the potential of your book, develop and sharpen the following top ten elements. Your Words Are Your tools; Make Sure They Are in Working Order. Avoid typos, sort out commonly mistaken words such as die/dye or there/their/they’re. Click here to Tweet and share it! If a paragraph begins in the past tense, it likely ought to end in the past tense, too. Figure out where those commas go to help your readers make sense of your sentences. Customer Service; Subscribe; Buy this issue; Billboard biz. The online extension of Billboard Magazine, billboard.biz is the essential online destination. Latin Times has put together a list of 20 Latin American themed books you must read before you die. Think of it as your bucket list of books. Top20LatinAmericanBooks. Sounds basic? So run that spell- check and get it right. Check for Inconsistencies. Writers revise their work constantly. As a result, characters may appear or disappear at random, because chapters were rearranged; subplots remain unresolved, because chapters were cut; and timeline issues may tiptoe in. Looking for inconsistencies and holes in your story is an integral part of polishing your work.? Underline them? Put book titles in quotes? Find out here. Avoid Overwriting. Your style or voice should step into the background to serve your story. No need for a clever metaphor in every sentence, or for an adjective before every noun. Avoid complicated sentences if a simple sentence will get your point across. Avoid inflated sentences and unnecessary introductory or summarizing phrases. Don’t be verbose—every sentence has a point; get to it. Avoid Underwriting. Allow your language to adapt to its context. Using the same words and/or sentence structures repeatedly makes a novel repetitive and monotonous. If the teenage girl and the CEO of a multibillion dollar company have the same voice, we’ll learn more about the writer than about the characters and their relationships. Avoid clich. Or use clich. Writers Conference of Minnesota (St. Paul, MN)Feb. 1. 6–1. San Francisco Writers Conference (San Francisco, CA)Feb. March 3, 2. 01. 7: Writers Winter Escape Cruise (Miami)Feb. The Alabama Writers Conference (Birmingham, AL)March 2. Kansas City Writing Workshop (Kansas City, MO)April 2. Get Published in Kentucky Conference (Louisville, KY)April 2. New Orleans Writers Conference (New Orleans, LA)May 2. Get Published in San Diego (San Diego, CA)June 2. The Writing Workshop of Chicago (Chicago, IL)July 8, 2. Cleveland Writing Workshop (Cleveland, OH)Aug. Writer’s Digest Conference (New York, NY)5. Make Sure Your Characters Are More Than a Name. As a reader, I want to be able to relate to your characters. I don’t have to always like them or agree with their choices, but I want to understand why they say and do whatever it is they say and do. I want to care for them, fear and worry with them. Therefore, your characters need to be recognizable and unique at the same time. They need to be complex rather than cardboard cutouts, and dynamic rather than passive. Even a bad guy deserves a redeeming quality. Show, Don’t Tell.“He was anxious.” Or: “She was happy.” Or: “They were angry.” That’s telling. Trouble is, this does not really tell me what I am to imagine. Is he chewing his nails? Is she smiling as she embraces her newborn baby? Are they raising their voices to a level that could be heard down the block? That’s showing, and it conjures up a clear image in your reader’s head. And that’s what you want. Sharpen that Dialogue. Dialogue propels the plot forward. And, dialogue reveals the personality of the dialogue partners, as well as their relationship. Avoid repeating small talk, too much clever banter, and uninterrupted speeches. At least two people should exchange information, ask questions, answer them, comment, fight, tease. The way your characters interact with each other says a whole lot about them and about their relationship.? Read about them here. Every conversation has a subtext. Dialogue is not only about what is being said, but also about how the dialogue partners feel about and relate to each other. Do they like each other? Who has the upper hand? Do they trust each other? Show us in their gestures, glances, body language, and behavior while they’re talking. Is anyone leaning in or moving away? Anyone nervously fidgeting with a pen? Anyone looking out the window because he is bored or to the floor because she is ashamed? The narrative must support the dialogue by exposing the underlying tension, conflict, and motivation of your characters. Drive the Plot Towards Your Reader’s Aha- Moment. A readable novel provides meaning to the world we live in, which is to say that the succession of events must make sense. Your characters react to these events in ways that are motivated by their psychological disposition. The interplay of events and character behavior moves your plot forward. The writer’s hand should remain invisible. Therefore, prepare your plot twists within the novel before they happen, and give your characters a reason for their behavior. These clues should not be so obvious that we can predict the way your story goes, but in retrospect, once the plot has twisted a certain way, your preparation must become clear. It’s your readers’ aha- moment, if you will. Build Your World. Stories don’t happen in a vacuum. Your story could happen in China in the distant past, in present day America, or in the future on a planet you imagined. Your readers need to know how your world compares to theirs. This is world building, which involves establishing a clear timeline, a recognizable locale of your overall story, and, just as importantly, the ambiance of any given scene. As a writer, you must create a world populated with characters who live their lives before our eyes, and you must do so with words only. Click here to Tweet and share it! Your words and their rhythm build your world and make it turn. Your words are your tools; make sure they are in working order. Also check out Helga’s Writers Digest online tutorial: Top Ten Errors Writers Make(and look for her future online tutorials on How to Create Compelling Characters,The Interplay of Dialogue and Narrative, and How to Engage and Involve Your Readers). Thanks for visiting The Writer’s Dig blog. For more great writing advice, click here. Brian A. Klems is the editor of this blog, online editor of Writer’s Digest and author of the popular gift book. Oh Boy, You’re Having a Girl: A Dad’s Survival Guide to Raising Daughters. Follow Brian on Twitter: @Brian. Klems. Sign up for Brian’s free Writer’s Digest e. Newsletter: WD Newsletter. You might also like. NPR's Top 1. 00 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books.
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