中文：

 很长时间没有更新我个人对于恐怖电影的介绍了。人是一种很奇怪的动物，它们可以每个下午打至少两个小时的网球，并且每个晚上看一些垃圾韩剧，但是仍然理直气壮地说：“我太忙了，没时间更新BLOG。”

言归正传，我发现也许我以前在BLOG中介绍的恐怖电影有点过时了。我是说它们毫无疑问是经典，但是它们确实有点老，不流行了，比方说希区柯克的很多电影。我之前真正希望的并不是将一些已经为大多数人所知的经典老电影介绍给别人。把一些新的杰作介绍给喜爱恐怖电影的人才是我的真正所愿。所以我决定从今天起我会介绍那些最近的恐怖电影。我不能保证它们是最新的，但是我想至少也该是2000年之后的吧。

今天，我要介绍《恐怖大师》给你。它并不是一部电影，而是一系列电影。截止到我写这篇文章，已经有两季在SHOWTIME频道上播出了。它确实是秀啊！世界顶尖的恐怖电影导演，像大卫·芬奇，托比·琥珀，达里欧·阿吉图等等，汇集一起来各自拍摄恐怖故事，它们都非常杰出，充满想象，灵光闪现。

“恐怖大师”的每一个故事都持续大约一个小时。虽然本质上它们都是恐怖电影，有些是关于爱情的，有些关于科幻，有些关于战争，有些甚至关于童话。第一季的第二集是我个人钟爱的故事。它是关于一个学物理的学生，住在一个出租房，遇上了隔壁的母亲和婴儿。机缘巧合，他发现他所住的房子的墙的形状特别像是他所研究的理论中的平行宇宙。于是晚上他睡着的时候他发觉自己进入了另一个空间，那里有一个邪恶的女巫和一只长着人脸的耗子想要杀死隔壁的那个婴儿。当他醒来的时候，他糊涂了，他不知道那是否只是一个梦，因为那个梦是如此的真实，并且梦里预示的一些东西开始在现实中发生……

因为我本人以前是一个物理系的学生，这个故事给我一种身临其境的真实感。其他的故事也都很有创造力并且让人毛骨悚然，然而我却没有许多的时间来进行一一介绍。你可以试着看看。我确信它们是不会令你失望的。

English:

Haven't updated my personal introduction to scary movies for a long time. Man are very strange animals, they can play tennis more than two hours every afternoon, and watch some kind of korea soap opras every evening, and still say out loud:" I am too busy to update my blogs. "

Any way, get back to the point, I've just got some idea that maybe the scary movies I introduced on this BLOG before are little bit out of date. I mean they are classic ones without doubt, but they are kind of old, out fashioned, such as many movie works of Hitchcock's. What I really wanted to do is not just to introduce some old classic ones, which are already very known to people. It is introducing someone who fancies scary movies to new masterpieces that I really want. So, I've decided that from today on I'll talk about scary movies which are filmed recently. I can't promise they are the newest, but at least after 2000, I guess.

Today, I'll introduce you to "Masters of Horror".  It is not A movie; it is a serial of movies. By the time I write this article, two seasons have been released by SHOWTIME channel. It is really a showtime! The world's top great directors of horror movies, such as David Fischer, Tobe Hooper, Dario Argento, etc. have been gathered to film scary stories respectivetly which are all thumping good ones, full of imagination and true stroke of inspirations.

Every story of "Masters of Horror" lasts about an hour. Though basically they are all scary movies, some are about love, some about science fiction, some about war, some even about fairy tales. The second episode of the first season is my personal favourite story. It is about a student of physics, who lived in a rented house and met a woman with a baby who lived in the next door. Somehow he found that the shape of the walls of his room is very similar to parallel universes according to the theory he had been studying in. Then during the night he falling asleep he found himself came into another space, and there was an evil witch and a man-faced mouse who was trying to kill the baby in the next door. By the time he woke up, he was confused, didn't know if it was just a dream or not, because the dream was so real and something that was prefigured in the dream started to happen in reality...

Since I used to be a student of physices myself, that story gave me some real feelings like I was inside it. Other stories are also very creative and thrilling, while I don't have much time to introduce them one by one. You could try to watch them yourselves. I am sure they won't disappoint you.

中文：
我的前室友曾经告诉我对于一个成功的恐怖电影有几大要素：孤独、黑暗、死亡。我基本上同意这个观点。孤独给你一种你只有你自己一个人可以依靠这种感觉。人类是群居的动物，所以我们需要对方，我们需要接触，我们也需要交流。即使我们有时候无情地伤害对方，但是当真正处于危险关头的时候，我们最需要的还是一个同伴，一只温暖的手。黑暗能够激起人类天生的恐惧，因为黑暗意味着不可触摸到的、不可知的事物。一些致命的事物隐藏在黑暗的阴影中,远远强于人类、同时你又根本不知道那是什么，能使人发疯。死亡，我可以断言世界上大多数人包括我自己都害怕它，特别是年纪大点的人。死亡在本质上讲还是未知事物。我们死后会在哪儿？我们还能够感觉和触摸么？或者说还有所谓的我们么？圣经上说人死后还有灵魂，佛教教义也差不多这么说。但是现代科学说这些都是胡说，人死了就什么都没有了，只有尸体。我们经常愿意标榜自己崇尚科学，可惜讽刺意味的是即便是大科学家们也不明白到底应该相信哪一个。所以我们必须得承认死亡对于我们每个人来说仍旧是一个谜，因为没有一个活着的人能够经历它。
诚然，孤独、黑暗、死亡，对于一部好的恐怖电影来说非常重要，不过我认为有一个东西更加本质：幻象，也就是人思维中的某种东西。为什么我们几乎在每部恐怖电影中都能够看到镜子？因为镜子就是对这个现实世界的影像，镜子里，我们能够看到我们背后出现的恐怖幻象。为什么鬼魂和一些精神疯子经常是恐怖电影导演喜爱的主题？因为它们是幻象。从科学的眼光来看，鬼魂本身就是人们的想象创造出来的。恐怖电影里面的大多数疯子都有多重的人格，他们中的大多数都会遇到只在他们脑子中存在的人。进一步说，孤独、黑暗、死亡，它们都可以被概括到幻象的领域中，孤独是幻象的前提，因为人越多，制造幻象的机会就越小。你很难想象会有三个以上的人同时精神出问题！至于黑暗，显然黑暗给予了人们更多的空间去想象幻象。最后是死亡，就像我已经提到的，死亡本身是一个未知的事物，就像一个致命的无比强大的幻象，时刻威胁你的生命，同时你永远无法逃避。
所以你看到恐怖电影的本质元素了么？幻象，这是你在日常生活中看不到的，于是它能够激起你恐怖的感觉。并且有的时候不仅仅是视觉幻象，而且还有听觉幻象，像半夜女人的哭声，隔壁的嘈杂声等等。
根据这个看法，可以很容易看到欧美恐怖电影和日韩恐怖电影的区别。它们两者都是关于幻象的故事，但是在前者的故事里面一般都会给出一个解释。我不知道这是否和欧美人更崇尚科学有关，但是欧美的电影确实倾向于给整个故事一个合理的解释，而日韩电影则很少给出关于它们所讲故事的解释。邪恶的鬼魂到最后仍然是邪恶的鬼魂，你想不明白。我个人比较喜欢合理的故事一些，因为对于我它们比较符合逻辑。当然有人认为一个合理的故事比起一个纯粹的鬼故事会不太恐怖一些，因为后者你永远不能够把恐怖的根源想明白。欧美恐怖电影和日韩恐怖电影还有另外一个不同点。前者更强调视觉效果，后者更加注重整个电影的气氛营造。
好了，我想我最好还是快点结束这篇文章吧，因为已经快凌晨三点了，而且看来我好像还有一些翻译工作要做啊。我只是希望那个暗夜精灵不会突然用它尖细的手指从背后捅我。好吧，我刚才只是开玩笑o(∩_∩)o...

English:
My ex-roomie used to tell me that there are several essential elements in a successful horror movie: loneliness, darkness, death. Basically I agree with that. Loneliness gives you some feelings that you have no one else but yourself to cout on. Humans are group living animals, so we need each other, we need contacts, we need communications. Even though we sometimes hurt each other without mercy, but when we are in some extreme dangerous situation, the first thing we need is a companion, a warm hand. Darkness can raise human's inborn horrors, because darkness indicates something intangible, something unkown. Some deadly things hidden in the shallow of darkness, much more powerful than human beings, at the samethime you don't even kown what the hell it is, those can drive people crazy. Death, I can assert that most people in this world including me are afraid of that, especially elder ones. Fundamentally death is still something unkown. Where are we after we die? Can we still feel or touch? Or are there still "we"? Bibble says we still have spirits after we die, while Buddha doctrine says almost the same thing. But modern science says those are all craps, people are left nothing but corpses after they die. We are always willing to flaunt our esteem for science, but ironically even great scientists themselves don't know which to believe. So we have to admit that death is still a myth to everybody, because no living people could've been through it.
Admittedly, loneliness, darkness, death are really very important to a good scary moive, but  in my opinin there is one thing that more fundamental: illusion, namely something that in one's head. Why we see a mirror in nearly every scary movie? Because mirror is a reflection of the real world, inside it, we can see horrible illusions behind our back. Why ghost or some psychiatric lunatics are always the scary movie director's favourit subjects? Because they are illusions again. In science's point of view, ghost itself is a creation from one's imagination. Most lunatics in scary movie always have multiple characters and most of them will meet other figures which only exist in their mind. Further more, loneliness, darkness, death, all can be included in the realm of illusion. Loneliness is a precondition of an illusion, because with more people, the chance of creating a illusion is more minuscule. You can hardly imagine that three or more people have their metal health problem at the same time! And darkness, darkness obviously gives people more room to imagine a illusion. Finally death, as I already said, death itself is something unkown just like some deadly overwhelmingly powerful illusion which can endanger your life any minute and you can never escape.
So you see what the most basic factor of scary movie is? Illusion, which you cannot see in everyday life, so it can raise your feeling of horror. And sometimes, there are not just illusions of vision but some illusions of hearing, like woman's cry at the midnight or noises from the next door, you name it.
According to this theory, you can easily tell the difference between American-Europe scary movies and Japanese-Korea scary movies. Both of them are all stories about illusions, but the illusions in the former ones' storys are always given an explanation at the end. I don't know whether this has something to do with Occidentals more admire science or what, but American-Europe scary movies do prefer give an reasonable explanation to the whole story, while Japanese-Korea scary movies rarely have explanations about the story they tell. An evil ghost is still an evil ghost, you can never figure it out. Personally I prefer a reasonable story, because that makes sense to me. While some people consider that a reasonable story is less scary than a pure ghost story, because for the latter you can never figure out the source where the horror comes from. There is anther difference between American-Europe scary movies and Japanese-Korea scary movies. The former ones emphasize the visual effect more, while the latter ones pay more attension to the atmosphere of the whole movie.
OK, maybe I'd better finish this article as quickly as possible, because it is nearly 3:00 AM now and it seems that I still have some translation jobs to do. I just hope the night elf wouldn't suddenly poke me with his sharp fingers from behind my back. OK, I was just kidding o(∩_∩)o...