My plot: Revenge

The film starts with three teenage, college student friends who are having a movie night at one of the friends house while the parents are out on the town. They are happy, having a laugh and looking forward to a good night in. However, things are not all that they seem..
Just as the friends begin to watch their film, the power suddenly blacks out, will not switch back on and they are forced to sit with nothing but a few torches from the kitchen drawers as a light source. As the night draws on, the friends become bored from not watching the film and decide to just explore the house and the area around the house as a way of entertainment, but they are not alone. Outside, waiting in the darkness, is a mysterious hooded figure watching them, looking for the opportunity to take their revenge on the three friends over a past event that the unsuspecting teenagers thought was long buried and over...
The friends notice something is not right once they explore the house and keep hearing faint bumps and creaks around the house. When they return downstairs, they find that the back door is open, that someone has either entered the house or had entered the house. Too scared to run down the eerie street to any of the neighbours, the friends lock the back door  and try to call for help from their mobiles, but nobody can get any signal. The friend who lives in the house runs outside, deciding that she is not going to sit around scared and intends to go and get help from a neighbour. However, before she can get away from the house, she comes face to face with the hooded figure.
She runs back inside before the hooded figure can strike, locking the door behind her and breaking down sobbing. Her friends come to her aid and once she stops sobbing yells "Its him!" and "I thought he was dead or something, he disappeared over a year ago!"
The girls friends look outside but see nobody and try to calm their friend down. As she calms down, she goes over to the picture of her brother, who has been missing for over a year and claims he was the boy outside in the hood. The three friends become worried, as they used to bully the girl's brother to death because of all the attention he got compared to his sister and he was getting bullied at school anyway, which changed his behaviour slightly. He eventually snapped and killed their cousin who was staying the night, but he meant to kill his sister instead, as the cousin was sleeping in his sister's room. After he had murdered his cousin, the boy went missing.
The friends try to run upstairs, hoping to get signal on their phones, but as they get half way up the stairs, they hear a smash. They return to the living room to find that the picture of the girl's brother smashed out of the frame and besides it a single picture of the girl's cousin who the brother killed with the words "it should've been you" written on the back of the picture.
Throughout the film, the girls are stalked by the boy and they become increasingly paranoid that he is out there, waiting for them. People refuse to believe them and the boys who bullied the kid are stalked and murdered one by one.
To protect her friends, the girl decided to face her brother, which ends with a massive stand off and her killing her brother in self defence.

My plot: The Gift

The film starts on a young boy's birthday, and shows him opening all his gifts. His mother then tells him he has one more, and that she found it on the door step. The present is very tattered, and has no gift tag, so no-one knows who it’s from. Under the ripped wrapping paper are warnings not to open it.

He takes it to his room and opens it. Inside the box is nothing but a shell and a note, telling him 'she'll be here soon'. He laughs it off, thinking it’s one of his friends, and puts the box to a side.

Later that night he's awoken by a strange gurgling sound, and sees a shadow in his mirror, suddenly the shadow moves forward and slowly pulls itself from the mirror. He can just make out her features, black eyes, blood dripping from her mouth. She lets out a large gurgle, and lifts one hand. She whispers 5 days, then disappears. He lays awake all night, terrified of what he's seen, not noticing the five bruises on his arm.

The next day he sets off researching, and finds that in his area there have been mysterious deaths for years, where people have just been found in a frozen state in their bedroom, their hair white, their lungs full of water, the evidence showed they'd drowned, but they weren't near any water. He researches all day, and then throughout the night, he refuses to sleep, scared she may come back for him.

The next day stumbles across an old web page with an old newspaper article, describing a woman, Marge Lower, who has been admitted to a mental asylum, who describes a woman who visited her, and predicted her death. The newspaper article was from seven years ago, so 'the boy' decides to visit her. He arrives at the mental asylum, and after asking the receptionist for Marge Lower, makes his way down the white halls, each identical, until he reaches her room. Inside he can’t help but notice the lack of mirrors. He introduces himself, but she does not speak, instead she looks through her window towards the lighthouse in the distance. He sits speaking to her for hours, waiting for any reply. Finally he breaks down, tears roll down his face as he tells her about the gift and the girl. As soon as the boy mentions the gift, the women's face becomes twisted in agony, death, she mumbles. She grabs his arm and counts the three bruises, 'her mark' she says, 'three days'. She tries to make him leave, saying that the girl might come back for her. The boy refuses; he says that if she refuses to help him, she's pretty much killed him herself. Hearing this, the woman once again stares towards the lighthouse on the cliff.

Later that night the boy is starting to becoming exhausted, he still refuses to sleep, terrified. He sits opposite the mirror, waiting. But eventually his eyes become heavy and he falls to sleep. Footsteps awake him, a dark figure stood in the door way, dark hair at each side of her face, she moves closer and closer. He's petrified, frozen to the spot, unable to make a sound. 'What you doing there?' His mother asks, turning on the light, she notices his white complexion, and goes to sit next to him, 'anything you want to tell me, you don't look very well?’ He lets out a big sigh of relief, and says he's feeling a bit ill. His mother leaves the room, and he once again stares at the mirror, just waiting.

As soon as the light of day touches his face he begins researching on his computer, becoming desperate, he now knows about his bruises, and only had two left. Hours went by, there was no mention of the girl visiting anyone, then he remembered the lighthouse, the woman just stared at the lighthouse. Running out of ideas he decided to look up its history. He finds that in the 1800's a young girl had died there by falling off the cliff, her body had never been found. He rushes out the lighthouse, under the cliff is beach. The tide is quickly going in; he notices a rock sticking out of the water. And on it is a small shell, identical to the he received in the gift. He ran to the protruding rock, and saw a crisp white piece of paper, with curly white handwriting on it. It was a long note, but a few words stood out to him, 'I can’t cope anymore, he did it', he thought back to the web page about the lighthouse, about the young girl, she lived with her father, did he push her, did he mistreat her, which made her jump?

He needed to visit the old woman again, to tell her what he knew. Tell her the curse was broken.

He went to the mental asylum, and gave the woman the shell and note, but he was surprised that she appeared to already know. 'The curse isn't broken, you've only uncovered her motif''. Hearing this he broke down. He asks her how she survived; out of all the victims, only she survived. She goes quite then says, 'resend the gift. It’s the only way; if you give the gift to someone else the curse is lifted for you. But you’re the reason someone else dies, can you really live with that?'

He goes home to decide what to do. He only has one bruise left; she's coming tonight for him. Can he really do it, be responsible for someone’s death? Its 10pm, two hours and she'll come. Nearly hysteric, he rewraps the gift, writing his own message on it in big bold red letters, 'don’t open this, I’m so sorry'. He runs out of the house, close to 11pm, and finds a house at the opposite end of town, and sits there wondering what to do. He looks at his phone, 11.59pm, he must decide now, can he really kill another person...
Eden Clark

Basic plot: A half insane, psychopathic android, believing itself to be a human returns to its place of birth for answers of its origins.

Detailed plot: In the near future of 2040-somethingorother, an enigmatic, government funded robotics company 'Nartskieknet systems' has just canceled its secretive production of high quality, life like androids. Among these androids is the original prototype, needzanaym, who was released into the world of labour with various unforeseen problems.  One of these is the denial of its adroidy origins. Needzanaym believes itself to be a human and will actually go insane at the revelation of its creation, leading it to destroy the majority of its robotic co-workers. It then escapes into the world, occasionally murdering those who remind it of its past.

Now it returns to Nartskieknet, seeking answers for its origins and prepared to fight its way up to the head of the corporation, a powerful man named Sylvester Schwarzenegger (that's a place holder). Due to his insanity he kills numerous innocent staff before law enforcement arrives to stop him, too late to prevent him from getting to Sylvester's office. After getting the answers he seeks he offs Sylvester, effectively destroying the corporation, and then runs outside to be met by a hail of gunfire, which he manages to escape from.

After running for numerous days, the police lose track of the android and begin asking around. Needzanaym continues to hide from the police, looking to atone for his crimes. He helps various lesser off humans while keeping his anonymity, effectively turning into a patron saint to them. After a short while the police find him again due to one of the hobos betraying his location. A large battle breaks out between the hobos who revere him as a saint and the Police who want to bring him to order.

After witnessing the destruction it has caused, Neezanaym decides to end its life to prevent anymore suffering as a direct result of his actions. He terminates his systems, effectively shutting himself down permanently, something he learned to do from one of his hobo friends, Bahtmarn.

-Carl Copley

Needs actual names, not placeholders.

The History of Horror.

Horror, as a film genre, has been one of the largest and most noteable film genres around. It has been with Cinema almost since film had been popularised. It first came about in the 1890s with the film "Le Manoir du diable",  often credited as the first ever horror film (Though Nosferatu is generally given this prestige)
Horror was also explored in the Japanese cinema with films such as Shinin no Sosei. Frankenstein was first released in 1910, though this was not the version everyone is thinking of and was thought to have been lost.

German Expressionists influenced many film genres, including horror. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu and The Golem were all released during this time.

When sound first arrived to the Film industry a rise in Gothic horror occured, with classics such as Dracula and Frankenstein. Many horror classics were released in the 1930s but, due to the second great war, there was a significant lack of films in the 1940s.

In the 1950s, when technology had improved, the concentration on Gothic horror transitioned to more contemporary issues. There was a huge influx in low budget films, generally focusing on outside threats such as UFOs and horrific mutations. Some films, such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers would use the fear of the Cold War to their advantage. Japan, after having been the first country to witness the use of nuclear weaponry first hand, made a number of films representing the horror of the event, such as the world famous Godzilla.

In the 60s, the first ever slasher type film, Psycho, was released. The Masque of the Red Death and The Tomb of Ligeia can be argued to have inspired future horror films to be more graphic in their depiction of gore. The 60s also saw the birth of low budget Gore-Shock films like Two Thousand Maniacs! were, as the genre suggests, more about shocking the audience with insane amounts of gore rather than actually scaring them.

The 70s saw a huge rise in lower budget gore films and more occult themes were now being explored because of the success of Rosemary's Baby. The Exorcist was the first of these kinds of movies. Oddly enough, another genre was emerging, the "Evil Children" genre (which is an especially literal title) saw a number of films released featuring evil children. It also saw the world famous Alien, which was a terrific blend of horror and science fiction.

Gorier slasher movies saw a rise in the 1980s. Many were low budget gore fests and were generally panned by critics, though a lot of them eventually became cult classics, such as the Evil Dead series.

The gory slasher films, like Nightmare on Elm Street, were continued into the 90s. The sequels to these films were fairly successful, however the fans of the originals and the critics generally detested them, finding the films to be lazy cash-ins. While there were some new ideas to the genre, the majority of cinema goers found it stagnent and too full of the same material (Evil killer hunts down dopy teenagers and kills them in particularly nasty ways) and the Science Fiction genre was only benefitting from the increase in special effetcs. As a result the horror genre almost ground to a halt.

To make pull its audience back in and gain their interest once more, horror turned into a living parody of itself. Films such as Scream mocked the genre itself, featuring characters who understood the cliches presented during the films (IE: The Black guy dies first) Whilst this was slightly successful, it was fairly obvious the golden age of film horror was over.

As a result of happening from the 90s, the early 2000s were a relatively quiet time for the genre. Jeepers Creepers was a fairly successful franchise, but it was no Dracula. The Others saw a brief return to the psychological horror genre and soon more and more horror films were being made. Thanks to the success of the Resident Evil video game series (not the films though, they suck) a large interest in Zombie themed movies were released, including the famous 28 Days Later and the infamous Resident Evil film series, which fans of the games generally detested.
Later many remakes of older Gore-fest films, like The Hills Have Eyes, were released. This led to large amounts of "Gore-nography" films being released, such as Saw and Hostel.

Many of the films released closer to 2010 were all remakes of classic horror films. The ones that nearly damned the genre.
It's clear that the horror genre has certainly changed since its first appearence in the 1890s, whether or not it's for better or worse is ultimately up to an individual to decide. It is unarguable, however, that the great films from the 1930s to 70s are gone and that we'll likely never see anything such as them ever again.

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