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1. Basically, I do not like horror films. However, due to my anxiety for digging out their underlying fascination, I somehow viewed some of those that were not so menacing and horrifying, namely the Scream and its sequels, the Resident Evil and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. These films strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers and intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audiences. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness, compounded with morbid, gruesome, surreal, exceptionally suspenseful or frightening substance. The main reason that I do not enjoy watching horror films is that they use to inculcate audiences, not least the adolescents, with wrong moral values. Many horror movies use to showcase blending psychological insights with gore to scare audiences. These kind of gore-shock and slasher films featured splattering blood and bodily dismemberment and feasted audiences' eyes on the blood and morbidity. An extension of this was the emergence of a type of horror with emphasis on depictions of torture, suffering, violent deaths and necrophiliac. All these kinds of maniac behaviour could have dire consequences to today's moral standards.

4. It was on a dreary night of November that I saw the result of my labours. The creature I created was a genetically-modified dinosaur. It had an undinosaurian skull, sprawling limbs, lizard-like spines and a dragging tail. It was a quadrupedal predator that feeds on human blood and flesh…