HORROR FILM INGREDIENTS

SUSPENSE

1. Who's the director of this movie Psycho? Your name is Alfred Hitchcock.

2. What type of characters did he often use in horror films? A soft and unflappable hero, outlandish dangers, beautiful predatory women.

3. What technique did he use with the camera?  This subjective technique: shooting from the killer’s point of view.

COMIC RELIEF

1. What is the comic relief? Comic relief usually means a releasing of emotional or other tension resulting from a comic episode interposed in the midst of serious or tragic elements in a drama. 

2. Why is it often used in horror films? Sometimes comic relief characters will appear in fiction that is comic. This generally occurs when the work enters a dramatic moment, but the character continues to be comical regardless. Greek tragedy does not allow any comic relief.

3. Do you remember laughing in horror films? Can you think of an exemple? Slippy hollow.

MY HORROR STORY

FILM: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 1

PLOT: A marriage begins to suffer paranormal events, because the wife has conection with a damon from her childhood whit her sister.

It all begins when the husband buys a camera, at beginnig only film what happens during the night, but realizes that strange things happen. Katie (the wife) decide talk with a profesional (a medium) but no apport anything. 

The events start to be alarming, is evident that there are a spirit connected with the Katie.  Every time the incidents are more evident in the night. Finally they decided leave home, but when they have all ready Katie is possessed for the damon , and is already too late.

IMAGE AND TRAILER

 

THE GOTHIC NOVEL

QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Who invented the G.N?
The gothic novel was invented almost single-handedly by Horace Walpole.


2. What was the first G.N?
The fisrt G.N was a The Castle of Otranto.


3. When was it first published?
The first published in 1764.


4. Which basic elements of horror didn't you include on your list?

•  sighs - sospirs.
•  eerie sounds - sons misteriosos.
•  footsteps approaching - passos que s'apropen.
•  clanking chains - cadenes rexinants.
•  lights in abandoned rooms - llums en habitacions abandonades.
•  Setting in a castle - situat en un castell.
•  women in distress - dones en perill.
•  howls - udols (aullidos)
•  wind - vent
•  an ancient prophecy - una antiga profecia