THE HISTORY OF HORROR

• What are your fears?

Personally I'm afraid to clowns and I'm really afraid of the sea.

• Are you a horror expert?

I like film making.

For a good horror movie it's very important to have a scary atmosphere with darkness, paranormal sounds... and for me it's important the mental horror, scary the person slowly it's more terrifying than if you try to to scary directly the person.

• THE GOTHIC NOVEL:

1)Who invented the G.N? the inventor of the G.N was Horace Walpole.

What was the title of the first G.N? The title of the first novel is: The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.

When was it published? It was published on 1764.

2)Which basic elements of horror do you remember from the introductory lesson?

1.dark imagery

2.spooky music

3.suspense

4.mystery

5.jump scares 

6.skulls

7.characters (devils, ghosts..)

8.blood

9.haunted atmosphere and places

10.night

3)Choose one of the topics on discovering literature and write a post.

'Man is not truly one, but truly two': duality in robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

This article was written by Greg Buzwell and it was published on 15 May 2014

'Curator Greg Buzwell considers duality in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, exploring how the novel engages with contemporary debates about evolution, degeneration, consciousness, homosexuality and criminal psychology.'

About evolution and degeneration, Dr Jekyll was a good man but Mr Hyde was evil. 

Double lives and misleading appearences, double-consciousness just as the differing appearances of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde play upon the theories emerging from Charles Darwin’s work, so their differing personalities explore contemporary debates about moral behaviour and the possible plurality of human consciousness.Jekyll ,homosexuality and blackmail were frequently linked in this period. 

https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/duality-in-robert-louis-stevensons-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde

• THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR STORY

1. Who is Edgar Allan Poe? He was an American writer, poet, critic and journalist.
2. When and where was he born? He was born on 19th of January 1809 in Boston.
3. What was he famous for? He was a good horror writer.
4. Did he get married? He get married to Virginia Eliza Clemmfg.
5. How did he die? Theories about the causes of Poe's death include suicide, murder, anger, rage, syphilis and even having been captured by electoral agents who induced him to drink to make him vote and then, already in a drunken state, abandoned him to your luck.
6. Name some of his most famous works:

       -The black cat

       -The well and the pendulum

       -The crimes of morgue Street

       -The oval portrait

       -The Tell-Tale Heart

       -The story of Arthur Gordon Pym

       -The Raven

       -The stolen letter

       -The Gold Bug

       -The fall of the Usher House

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• ALFRED HITCHCOCK

1. What's his nickname? The master of suspens.
2. What was his most famous horror film? Pshyco was one of his most horror films.
3. What was his main contribution to horror? Perhaps Hitchcock’s most important contribution to horror films was his frequent use of the subjective camera to reveal a character’s vision

• COMIC RELIEF

1. What is comic relief and why is it used to horror films? Comic Relief 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.