Vintage Vault: Those Old Horror Movies Galore Poem by Paula Glynn

Watching scary and graphic old horror movies
Disturbing and dark subject matter to chill the heart
To scare the viewer with its creative storylines
Clever transgressive topics and imaginative themes
Elements including monsters, apocalyptic events
And religious or folk beliefs and mythology
Vintage vault movies based oftentimes on superstition.

Horror movies from the Vintage Vault
That do create stories from Irish and other folklore
Religious beliefs and superstitions of different cultures
And other fictional scary stories where it is the villains' fault
The Vintage Vault frightening with its special effects
Prosthetic limbs and makeup making characters surreal
The magical effects making characters so very real.

Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley
Stealing the show: Frankenstein's monster
Gruesome and frightening on the silver screen
Dracula the ultimate vampire classic
A film remade many times over the years
Bram Stoker creating the ultimate vampire dream
That does make the audience let out a blood curdling scream.

Sub-genres emerged in subsequent decades
Including body horror, comedy horror, slasher films
Splatter, supernatural horror and psychological horror
'The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s'
Commonality between horror films between the viewer and the star
That 'normality is threatened by the monster that does terror start"
Expanded upon by "The Philosophy of Horror or Parodoxes of the Heart".

Noël Carroll adding 'repulsion must be pleasurable
As evidenced by the genre's popularity"
Vintage Vault horror movies full of frightening gore
That the audience cannot ignore
As they watch the characters wonder if they
Will be the next victim to famously play dead on the silver screen
The horror movie however fake and thankfully not real.

Before 1931 terminology of horror film did not exist as a codified genre
Horror instead meaning striped convicts, murderous Indians,
Grinning nasty 'black-handers' and hostile homicidal drunkards
Actors playing characters that do cause trouble
Many actors with an essential body double
But the atmosphere is truly magical and surreal
And the carefully skilled special effects do the show steal.

1913 the infancy of cinema genres as un-yet defined
The silver screen popular even at this ancient time
Horror movies giving audience goers a sign
To not break the rules and end up in prison doing time
For the horror movie does foretell a bad omen: a bad sign
From the land of make believe that writers do conceive
But horror leaving the audience safely in their seats.