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Horror/Scary: October 24, 2018 Issue [#9191]




 This week: He is Still Alive? Sequels and Belief
  Edited by: Dawn Embers Author IconMail Icon
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Horror/Scary Newsletter by Dawn

Considering the immortality of evil, in particular in Horror/Scary movies and how it uses of suspension of belief in order to keep telling a story after characters have been extinguished yet keep coming back for more..


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It's almost Halloween and this year I'm finding myself wondering a particular question: How many Halloween movies are there? By this, I don't mean movies set around the holiday but a particular horror movie with the title Halloween. With the commercials I've seen, it looks like Michael is back once again.

I haven't seen most of the 11 listed movies but I do remember back when I saw Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. I will try not to spoil much for those who haven't seen it yet (movie came out in 1998) but let's just say at the end of the movie, it seems like there won't be another because of a car and a tree... But well, it's a scary movie and in 2002, there was a resurrection. And we're back again for more.

Not many genres can get away with the cheating death so often. In some fantasy/sci-fi type stories, one might be able to bring a character back after reaching their demise. Certain television shows have done this before at the end of one season where one character dies, yet they are brought back in the next season through some method or reason developed by the writers. How is this possible?

Part of it is a reliance on the reader to accept something that might not be possible in our world. Also known as the suspension of belief and it's something that all fiction really uses on varying levels. The speculative genres, in particular, have to rely on this from the readers because we tend to deal with creatures and story elements that won't work in our every day lives that might break some of the "laws" of science and life as we know it. The reader gets involved in the worlds we create, believing that faeries might exist, magic could create a situation where creatures could live in a suitcase, and a murder could come to life for 11 different movies.

The reader accepts these things in order to achieve the entertainment (or other element) they are seeking through their reading of any given story. They want to escape a little or in the case of this genre, experience the emotions that horror can evoke. So, we get to play with them and the laws of reality when writing a scary story with some easy reasoning that it's evil and evil doesn't die. Or whatever reason you come up with for the continuation of a particular character/haunted house/etc.

What are your thoughts? Think there will be another Halloween movie in 5 years? What other movies should consider the rebirth/undeath sequels? So many options. And hey, Happy Halloween! Now go write.


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How many sequels are too many in horror?

Last time I discussed the imagery that comes with horror and how images might be used in order to help the creative process. Here is the comment sent in over the topic:

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If I'm doing a contest I do prefer to use images as inspiration for horror stories. Even for poetry, it helps. I have a difficult time writing a straight up horror story without a prompt.

- I find the image prompt helps at times, depends on the image. The hard part is getting the writing done once I've gotten the idea from the image.


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