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Hobby Enthusiast: Horror as a Hobby September, 2022 Horror is a fiction genre whose purpose is to create feelings of fear, dread, repulsion, and terror in an audience. Why people like Horror: The brain kind of forgets in that moment that what it’s seeing is not real danger and then charges up a physiological response. The body goes into fight-or-flight mode, which means it’s flooded with adrenaline and euphoria-inducing brain chemicals like endorphins and dopamine so you feel ready to take on anything. |
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Frankenstein in Baghdad : a novel by Amad Sa'dwHadi, an eccentric scavenger in U.S.-occupied Baghdad, collects human body parts and cobbles them together into a single corpse, but discovers his creation is missing just as a series of strange murders begins to plague the city.
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Dracul
by Dacre Stoker
A prequel to Dracula, based on original author notes and co-written by a family descendant, reveals the iconic vampire's origin story, the early years of Bram Stoker and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connected them.
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Horrorstör by Grady HendrixAfter strange things start happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, three employees volunteer to work an overnight shift to investigate, but what they discover is more horrifying than they could have imagined.
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Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel follows the experiences of a courageous socialite in 1950s Mexico who is drawn into the treacherous secrets of an isolated mansion.
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Reprieve : a novel by James Han MattsonWhen a contestant is murdered in the final cell of the Quigley House—a full-contact haunted escape room, those who were present on that fateful night must come to terms with how their beliefs and actions may have contributed to this horrifying act of violence.
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Scream [(DVD) videorecording] / a Woods Entertainment production ; a Dimension Films presentation ; directed by Wes Craven ; written by Kevin Williamson ; produced by Cary Woods and Cathy Konrad DVD | Miramax Films | 1997 | Widescreen edition.A series of mysterious murders committed by a masked killer transforms a seemingly peaceful community into a place where no one is safe and everyone is suspect. |
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It can be anything. A fanged monster that won't stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. A malevolent force in a small New England town takes the shape of a clown, but It isn't clowning around. Instead, It terrifies youngsters with their innermost fears, bringing some to their untimely doom -- until a group of wily neighborhood kids fight back. Thirty years later the evil resurfaces: meaner, angrier, deadlier. And the friends who vividly remember the terrors of their youth reunite to make a desperate stand against It. |
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The Babadook [(DVD) videorecording] / directed by Jennifer KentAmelia is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called Mister Babadook turns up at her house, she is forced to battle with her sonѫs deep seated fear of a monster. Soon she discovers a sinister presence all around her.
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The Exorcist [(DVD) videorecording] / Warner Bros| Warner Home Video | 2000 Adapted by William Peter Blatty from his controversial bestseller, this shocking 1973 thriller set an intense and often-copied milestone for screen terror with its unflinching depiction of a young girl (Linda Blair) who is possessed by an evil spirit.
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When Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), a young African-American man, visits his white girlfriend's (Allison Williams) family estate, he becomes ensnared in the more sinister, real reason for the invitation. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined. |
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