Macabre stories

1. What is the story of the P&P about?
A man is in a room without light. He attempts to figure out his rooms shape, and ends up almost falling down a pit. Later he is drugged by the food the captors give him. He ends up strapped to a table with a big pendulum holding a giant blade that slowly descends. In order to save himself, he takes the beef they allowed him to have as a last meal, and smothers his bindings in their juices, prompting the rats to eat at them. He is released just before the blade would have killed him, only to have the walls move towards the center pit. He would have fallen in if a man did not grab his arm. That man is an officer in charge of releasing all the prisoners at the end of the Inquisition.

THE TELL-TALE HEART

1.  What is the story about?
The story is about a man who was living with an old man. The old man was characterised for having an upside down eye. The man who lived with him was very irritated because of his eye, so one day, he decided to kill him. Then, the policemen come to the house because the neighbours heard a scream. The man told them that the old man was in the city fortwo weeks. While they were having tea, the man started to hear the beating of the old man's heart. He started to get nervious and finally, he confessed his crime.
2. Who wrote the tell-heart and invited the fisrt macabre stories?
The Tell-Tale Heart was written by Edgar Allan Poe.

3.What was the first PHS?

The first pscichological horror story was Metzengerstein.

4. When was it first published?

The Tell-Tale Heart was published in 1843.

5.- What other story types did the author also invent?

The autor also invented other types of stories, such as: detective stories, Science Fiction,...

The Gothic Novel

1. Who inevented the GN?
Horace Walpole
2. What was the first G.N? 
The Castle of Otranto
3. When it was the first published? 
1764
4. Which basic elements of horror didn't you include on your list?
1. Setting in a castle
2. An ancient prophecy
3. Omens, portents, visions
4. Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events
5. Women in distress
6. Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male
7. The metonymy of gloom and horror

Scary movie

The Exorcist


Plot:

• What is it about? (5-10 lines)

Regan is twelve years old. She is a victim of paranormal phenomenon like the levitation or the superhuman power protest. Her mother, horrified, subdued her three daughters to several medical analysis that didn't show any results. After that, she resorted to a priest who had psychiatry studies. 

The priest, who was convinced that the pane wasn't physical, meaning that it was a diabolical posession, decided to practice exorcism.

• What is the best moment. Why?

In my opinion, the best scene that I had seen from of this movie is when the priest is practicing exorcism. In fact, I don't know why this scene is my favourite, but it was the most interesting of the film. 

• List of horror elements. 

1. Shouts
2. Dark sites
3. Horror music
4. Laughs
5. Cry sounds 
6. Mystery sounds
7. Blood