Horror Movies and Television

Candyman

Helen Lyle is a graduate student conducting research for her thesis on urban legends. While interviewing freshmen about their superstitions, she hears about a local legend known as Candyman, the son of a slave who was brutally tortured and murdered because of a love affair with the daughter of a local (white) plantation owner. According to the legend, anyone who looks into a mirror and chants his name five times will summon him, but at the cost of his or her own life. Thinking this is just the new spin she has been looking for, Helen enters the notorious gang-ridden territory known as the Cabrini-Green housing projects (the site of Candyman's brutal murder). Helen believes that Candyman cannot exist, but when she calls him into our world a string of murders begins and the police look to her as the primary suspect. Now, only one person can set her free: Helen must fight Candyman to save her own life and those of others

Annie Wilkes "Misery'

Annie Wilkes is a cunning, brutal and dangerously disturbed woman who hides her psychosis behind a cheery facade. In the novel, she frequently maims herself during her bouts with depression. She has an unhealthy obsession with romance novels, particularly Sheldon's Misery series. She often has difficulty in differentiating between these novels and reality. She is also intensely (almost fanatically) religious.

She abhors profanity, to the point that she will fly into fits of rage if it is used in front of her. She instead expresses anger with childishly strange words and phrases like "cockadoodie," "dirty bird," "dirty birdie," "oogie," and "rooty-patooties." In the novel, however, she lets more conventional profanities slip on occasion. Also, in both the novel and the film, she calls Sheldon a "lying cocksucker" after he burns the manuscript to Misery's Return.
Incurably paranoid and depressed, she thinks everyone is persecuting her and frequently has unexpectedly violent tantrums over insignificant matters. For instance, when Paul complains that the paper she originally bought him is smudge-prone, she hits his still-healing knee (with her bare hands in the novel and with the packet of paper in the movie).

The House on Haunted Hill

Six strangers have the chance to make $1,000,000 EACH. All they have to do is make it through the night alive. Institute for the Criminally Insane, where mass-murders were committed in the past. The head of the facility, Dr Richard B. Vannacutt (Jeffrey Combs), performed grotesque experiments and medical procedures on the patients, killing many of them in the process. The hospital was shut down when many of the so-called "patients" escaped, killing almost the entire staff and burning the hospital. Vannacutt had rigged the building with numerous iron gates activated by cranks and levers to serve as barriers to keep patients from leaving the building, should they escape. Some of these barriers are subject to huge clock-like timers that would not open for twelve hours. During the fire, he released these gates keeping the inmates, employees and the fire itself contained. After several unexplained deaths during reconstruction on the house, it was dubbed The House on Haunted Hill.

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Serial Killers and Mass Murderers

Mary Ann Cotton
(born October 1832 in County Durham, Northern England) who was possibly the greatest female mass murderer Britain has
ever known, killing between 16 to 21 of her children and former husbands over many years by arsenic poisoning. She was eventually arrested, tried and hanged in Durham Jail on the 24th March 1873.

Seung-Hui Cho
(January 18, 1984 – April 16, 2007) was a South Korean student at Virginia Tech who committed mass murder of 32 people and wounded 25 others in the shooting rampage which has come to be known as the Virginia Tech massacre. Cho committed suicide after law enforcement officers breached the doors of the building where he had killed and injured the majority of his victims.

Timothy McVeigh
responsible for the deaths of 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
two heavily armed students who opened fire at Columbine High School, killing 13 students.

Brenda Spencer
a rare instance of a female mass murderer, who shot dead eleven junior high classmates “because,” she said, “I don’t like Mondays.”

Michael Ryan
perpetrator of the notorious ‘Hungerford Massacre’, in which 16 people were shot dead, including his own mother.

Jeremy Bamber
the country boy found guilty of killing five members of his family.

Julio Gonzalez
(killing 87 people) Cuban born Gonzalez came to the United States in the 1980 Mariel boat lift. Ten years later, in a fit of jealousy, he killed eighty-seven partiers. Pissed off at his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Feliciano, who was dancing with someone else, Julio bought a buck's worth of gasoline and torched the Bronx's Happy Land Social Club killing nearly everyone inside. Only six survived. As luck would have it, one of them was lucky Lydia, his ex-girlfriend.

The Supreme Truth Cult
who released nerve gas in subway trains in Tokyo, killing 12 people.

Andrew Kehoe
(killing 45 people) The first mad bomber in U.S. soil, on May 18, 1927, Andy blew up a school in Bath, Michigan, killing 45
people, 37 of them children. After detonating explosives he planted under the school, "maniac bomber" Andrew Kehoe, a
school board member and treasurer and farmer, blew up his pickup truck, killing himself and the Bath School superintendent."I don't remember hearing any noise, but I remember flying in
the air and seeing things fly between me and the sun," remembers AdaBelle McGonigal, then 11 and in the fifth grade.
"But I don't ever remember falling." AdaBelle's ear was nearly torn off in the blast that killed 38 of her classmates.

Jack Gilbert Graham
(killed 44 people) Jack, a petty criminal, was always annoyed by his doting mother. In 1955, when she came to visit him in Denver, Jack gave her a Christmas present to take back home with her on the plane.

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