Suspense

1. Who's the director of this movie Psycho?
The director of the movie "Psycho" is Albert Hitchcock

2. What type of charatcters did he often use in horror films?
music, surpriseses in the history, violents images, ...

3. What technique did he use with the camera?

He filmed from the murderer's view.

Comic relief

-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.

-Why is it often used in horror films?                                             Sometimes comic relief characters will appear in fiction that is comic.

-Do you remember laughing in horror films? Can you think of an example.                                                                                                  I remember that Chucky is a horror movie but at the same time laugh                                                 

THE GOTHIC NOVEL (G.N), the first horror

Who invented the G.N?                                                          Horace Walpole

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

 When was it first published?                                             1764

 Which basic elements of horror didn’t you include on your list?  I didn't incloude moans, crazed laughter, baying of distant dogs, footsteps,...