Campfires surrounded by frightened people listening to blood curdling stories of terror, mystery, and murder is where screams were made. Before modern technology, before the flashy lights andwhistles of Hollywood there were ghost stories. Some of the most original, chilling, and spine tinglingtales ever, were told around these fires, generation after generation, with each one adding his or herown twist. Many spooky tales were scripted into novels and short stories with vividly graphic details.With advances in technology, black and white movies started thrilling lives. These colorless thrillers keptmuch of the movie going population up at night and checking the closets for mythical spooks. Early filmssuch as Frankenstein would have little to no effect on current thrill lovers.Time changes and so does current technology. Movies in the black and white period made useof intense symphonic music to build suspense and excitement. Building up music and right at the climaxa scarey boogie monster would jump out and make an audience shriek, is a common way of producinga scarey part of any movie. In The Shining by Stephen King, the great emphasis is on music as a toolto pump blood through spectators veins. The Shining tells a story about a man named Johnny, thatlooks after a haunted hotel during the winter months, while finishing his novel. With his wife and child hetended to the hotel, while a fierce blizzard blocked them in. As the week progresses, strangeoccurrences begin to happen and eventually the man becomes possessed by the hotel. In the most famous scene, the young boy is shown riding his big wheel through the halls of the hotel. He rolls acrossthe wooden floors making a hollow wooden noise interrupted by the dull sounds of rugs scatteredacross his path. This combination of sounds gives viewers an anticipation of something scary to come.Turning a corner the boy runs into two ghosts of brutally slaughtered little girls that haunt the plac...
