Famous+horror+stories

__**Famous horror stories **__  // By Ariel Duarte, Sofía Lewcowicz and Matías Cavaliere //  **In the literature world exist a lot of horror stories, children love them and girls hate them, although they are fantastic. Everybody have seen horror films based in a famous story, but in general people don't read the story after seeing the movie. These words have a difficult objetive, we want to wake up your interest at reading horror stories!** 

 We will start presenting some popular horror stories. //Frankenstein// //or The Modern Prometheus,// which was wrote by Mary Shelley when she was eighteen years old, was published for the first time in London in 1818. The name of the authoress appears on the second edition, published in 1831. Is one of the most important novels of science fiction, is considerate the first one in the world of horror stories. //Frankenstein// is relate to some elements of the Gothic novel and to the Romantic movement and has an influence across the literature and the popular culture. This is an amazing story for kids and for old people because relate the life with death and everybody have interest in that. A fiction horror history, where a scientist gives life to a monster which is a body reconstruction of parts of different death bodies. It makes compassion feelings because of the monster that is rejected by everyone he talks and everywhere he goes.  This kind of stories are the ones that people like, they enojoy it in all the world. For example, teenagers like telling them in night's meetings. Now in the new century, all the old famous horror stories are being re-writed and filmed with fantastic effects. There are a lot of new films that are about famous horror stories. One wich doesn't go far from Frankestein is Van Heilsing, this movie is a mixed between lycantropes, Frankestein and vampires. If you are a horror films fanatic, we recomend it. We have just mentioned the fabulous film //Van Heilsing// where vampires participate on it. Why? Because vampires are one of the most important protagonists in the Horror World. The first novel where Dracula appears is in //Dracula// written by Bram Stoker, a novel from the 1897. The character of Dracula was inspired in Vlad Tepes a hero from Rumania who was a violent man that liked impalate his enemys. Dracula's story has being modified since Bram Stoker wrote it fot the first time, now vampires are very changed. Basically, it talks about a monster who have very big fangs and likes biting people to drik their blood. Vampires sleep during the day because of the sun, it hits them. They are afraid to the garlic and you can kill them fixing a stake in their heart. It would be better to don't meet someone because, well, you can make conclusions. Children loves one character who has protagonized a lot of horror films, he is Chucky! He appeared in the movie Child's Play in 1998. In the film Chucky is a voodoist and a serial killer who is chased and shooted by a detective in a toy store. Before being death Chucky uses a voodoo ritual to transfer his soul to a toy wich was the only thing that he had near. Charles Lee "Chucky" Ray appears in a five saga films: //Child's Play, Child's Play 2, Child's Play 3, Bride of Chucky// and //Seed of Chucky////.// He is voiced by Brad Dourif. This character is very mentioned by young people, and he provokes scare of toys or dolls in all the children. If you want to feel suspense and adrenaline watch their films! Another important characters from the 'horror world stories' are Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees. We mentioned them together because there is a film called //Freddy vs Jason// where these two characters have a fight. On the one hand, Freddy Krueger was created by Wes Craven and comed up for the first time in 1984 in //A nightmare on Elm Street//. He is a monster who enter in childr en and teenagers dreams, he kills them and later they appear death in the real life, they don't wake up anymore. However, Freddy in the real world is a normal human. Krueger is undead and attacks his victims in their dreams. He is identified by his burned and disfigured face, he has a red and dark green striped sweater and metal hands. We recommend you this film if you want not to sleep a night! On the other hand, Jason Voorhees appears in //Friday the 13th series// of slasher films in 1980. He is create by Victor Miller. This character who stalk and kill people is interpreted by a lot of actors. However, Kane Hodder is the actor who is recognized by people at interpreting Jason cha racter, he did it in four consecutive films. The character physical appearance suffered many transformations, but he is recognized by his hockey mask, also people know his superhuman strength and his regenerative powers. Jason Voorhees hockey mask is one of the most popular image in our culture, people get scared when they see it. Well, we can agree that this film is for people who like the blood. This different stories are represent by comedy films, some directors makes horror films parodys. One of the most important is //Scary Movie// series. There were four Scary Movie films, Keenen Ivory Wayans directed the two first, the last two were directed by David Zucker. This comedy films try to make a parody of the clasic horror characters, they shows the opposite feeling of a horror film. In our scared world, comedies are a good remedy. A lot of horror stories were shown in this article, the conclusion we make is that people can make a ballance between seeing horror films and read them in books. Each form of showing a horror story have different characteristics. However, before seeing a horror movie or reading a horror story it would be better to prepare your mind, if not, you would get very scared! 

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