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Horror

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Ten Player Motives #6 Why do we love horror? It's a question that has provoked a great deal of debate, but the two most important things to understand about the horror motive are that it is about indulging in unpleasant feelings, and that precisely because it's about nasty things, it's not for everyone.

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Pumpkin lights and movie nights: The best Halloween family films

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Animated Halloween Hits: A Spooky Spectacle for All Ages Starting our countdown are captivating Halloween animation films that burst with creativity and eerie charm. Directed by Tim Burton , "Corpse Bride " is a beautiful stop-motion animated film filled with romance, dark humor, and enchanting music. The Addams Family" (1991) ?

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Five Nights at Freddy's film pulls in $80m domestically

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Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The Five Nights at Freddy’s film has pulled in $80 million domestically at the box office. As reported by Deadline , the Universal and Blumhouse's horror movie has also amassed $130.6 million worldwide. Read more

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Re-building the horror: Robert Eggers

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In recent years, all we hear about is the "new wave" of horror films - intelligent, arty, unconventional films that contrast themselves with the silly "horror movies" of the past. Filmustage does not aim to educate, but to gather a close-knit film community around us.

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Alan Wake 2: The art of horror

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Kyle Rowley: We wanted to figure out what kind of horror experience we wanted to make, based on Alan Wake as an established franchise, and the things that we did in the first game. Early on, we wanted to identify ourselves as more of a psychological horror game. So psychological horror made a lot of sense for us.

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Until Dawn is getting a movie adaptation

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PlayStation Productions and Screen Gems (part of Sony Pictures Entertainment) are working on a movie adaptation of Supermassive horror hit Until Dawn. Sandberg, known for Annabelle: Creation and the two Shazam movies, will be helming the film, The Hollywood Reporter said. Swedish director David F.

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Unraveling film genres: Impact on audience engagement

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Exploring the concept of film genres Film genres, the categorical division of movies into distinct types, have been a fundamental part of the movie industry since its inception. Image source: IMDb.com Understanding audience engagement in genres Audience engagement and viewer preferences significantly depend on the genre of the film.

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