Q1. Do you like horror films, such as films about Dracula and Frankenstein? Why or why not? (If you are not interested in horror films, go to question 4.)
Yes I love watching horror films, I always enjoy the plots of those horror films which crack the nerves of the audience and bring them to a journey of thrills and suspense. I have been a great fan of Steven King, the King of thrillers, who once said ‘the greatest fear is fear itself”. I love reading his books like ‘The Shining’, ‘Misery’, ‘Pet Sematary’, ‘Carrie’, ‘It’, ‘Salem’s lot’, etc. I also love the making of dark, sadistic horror films with a tint of romantic element such as ‘Bram Stoker's Dracula’, which is my beloved Dracula’s movie, and ‘Edward Scissorman’ which is a dark but beautifully made movie. I love them because I am always fond of tales, and these tales of horror always remind me of the very dark side of human beings and the fear to live with it to my last breath.
Q2. What is your favourite horror film of all time? Who is your favourite actor in horror films?
My favourite horror film is ‘The shining’, which is so creepy. I can still remember the scene when a sea of blood flushing into the hotel lobby through a gate. So, undoubtedly, Jack Nicholson is my favourite actor in this kind of films. If I am allowed a second choice, Gary Oldman is also my favourite actor in his fantastic repertoire of acting this sorts of roles.
Q3. What is the fascination of horror films? Why do film studios keep remaking them?
The fascination of horror films is that there are full of unknown things and unlimited developments of plots. With the Hollywood professional sounding and make-up effects, some great stories can be really frightening. I think the reason why film studios keep remaking them is, with the advancement of filming technology some good stories can really be remade to provoke more psychological impacts on the audience.
4. "It was on a dreary night of November that I saw the result of my labours...". Write the first three sentences of a horror story. Post it. Read any other horror story beginnings that have been posted. Choose one and continue it.
The story was read on a local newspaper some weeks ago. It was midnight at the infamous “Tak Tat School", upon a forsaken lot of Pingshan, Yuen Long...... allegedly haunted by the unrested souls of villagers who put up a gallant resistance to British troops when they occupied Hong Kong, killed brutally and all buried there in a mass tomb. There was a faint noise heard by the residents, which resembled that of a march, coming from afar, mimicking that of a parade, with a clear voice of a 'man' leading the march of those‘volunteering soldiers’. Wind was whistling in the hollow, back and forth, back and forth, with long grass whizzing, which sounded like a baby crying......
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Re: Horror Films
by monapyleung » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:02 am
BASIS OF BRAM STOKER CREATING DRACULA
Between 1879 and 1898, Stoker was a business manager for the world-famous Lyceum Theatre in London, where he supplemented his income by writing a large number of sensational novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula published on May 26, 1897. Parts of it are set around the town of Whitby, where he spent summer vacations. Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, authors such as H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells wrote many tales in which fantastic creatures threatened the British Empire. Invasion literature was at a peak, and Stoker's formula of an invasion of England by continental European influences was by 1897 very familiar to readers of fantastic adventure stories. Victorian readers enjoyed it as a good adventure story like many others, but it would not reach its iconic legendary status until later in the 20th century
BASIS OF MARY SHELLEY CREATING FRANKENSTEIN
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, aged 18, and her lover (and later husband) Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited Lord Byron at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The weather was consistently too cold and dreary that summer to enjoy the outdoor holiday activities they had planned, so the group retired indoors until dawn.
She began writing what she assumed would be a short story. With Percy Shelley's encouragement, she expanded this tale into a full-fledged novel.[6] She later described that summer in Switzerland as the moment "when I first stepped out from childhood into life".[7] Byron managed to write just a fragment based on the vampire legends he heard while travelling the Balkans, and from this John Polidori created The Vampyre (1819), the progenitor of the romantic vampire literary genre. Thus, two legendary horror tales.
Dracula is featured in 161 movies, as contrasted with the 2nd most popular horror movie character of all time, Frankenstein, who is only in 115 movies.
Other Horror Characters
There are some impressive Horror Characters in movies such as the Orphan girl Esther in ‘Orphan’, the nurse Misery in the ‘Misery’, Dr. Hannibal Lecter in ‘Silence of the Lamb’ and Damien in ‘the Omen’, etc.
Between 1879 and 1898, Stoker was a business manager for the world-famous Lyceum Theatre in London, where he supplemented his income by writing a large number of sensational novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula published on May 26, 1897. Parts of it are set around the town of Whitby, where he spent summer vacations. Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, authors such as H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells wrote many tales in which fantastic creatures threatened the British Empire. Invasion literature was at a peak, and Stoker's formula of an invasion of England by continental European influences was by 1897 very familiar to readers of fantastic adventure stories. Victorian readers enjoyed it as a good adventure story like many others, but it would not reach its iconic legendary status until later in the 20th century
BASIS OF MARY SHELLEY CREATING FRANKENSTEIN
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, aged 18, and her lover (and later husband) Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited Lord Byron at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The weather was consistently too cold and dreary that summer to enjoy the outdoor holiday activities they had planned, so the group retired indoors until dawn.
She began writing what she assumed would be a short story. With Percy Shelley's encouragement, she expanded this tale into a full-fledged novel.[6] She later described that summer in Switzerland as the moment "when I first stepped out from childhood into life".[7] Byron managed to write just a fragment based on the vampire legends he heard while travelling the Balkans, and from this John Polidori created The Vampyre (1819), the progenitor of the romantic vampire literary genre. Thus, two legendary horror tales.
Dracula is featured in 161 movies, as contrasted with the 2nd most popular horror movie character of all time, Frankenstein, who is only in 115 movies.
Other Horror Characters
There are some impressive Horror Characters in movies such as the Orphan girl Esther in ‘Orphan’, the nurse Misery in the ‘Misery’, Dr. Hannibal Lecter in ‘Silence of the Lamb’ and Damien in ‘the Omen’, etc.
- monapyleung
Re: Horror Films
by monapyleung » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:02 am
BASIS OF BRAM STOKER CREATING DRACULA
Between 1879 and 1898, Stoker was a business manager for the world-famous Lyceum Theatre in London, where he supplemented his income by writing a large number of sensational novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula published on May 26, 1897. Parts of it are set around the town of Whitby, where he spent summer vacations. Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, authors such as H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells wrote many tales in which fantastic creatures threatened the British Empire. Invasion literature was at a peak, and Stoker's formula of an invasion of England by continental European influences was by 1897 very familiar to readers of fantastic adventure stories. Victorian readers enjoyed it as a good adventure story like many others, but it would not reach its iconic legendary status until later in the 20th century
BASIS OF MARY SHELLEY CREATING FRANKENSTEIN
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, aged 18, and her lover (and later husband) Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited Lord Byron at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The weather was consistently too cold and dreary that summer to enjoy the outdoor holiday activities they had planned, so the group retired indoors until dawn.
She began writing what she assumed would be a short story. With Percy Shelley's encouragement, she expanded this tale into a full-fledged novel.[6] She later described that summer in Switzerland as the moment "when I first stepped out from childhood into life".[7] Byron managed to write just a fragment based on the vampire legends he heard while travelling the Balkans, and from this John Polidori created The Vampyre (1819), the progenitor of the romantic vampire literary genre. Thus, two legendary horror tales.
Dracula is featured in 161 movies, as contrasted with the 2nd most popular horror movie character of all time, Frankenstein, who is only in 115 movies.
Other Horror Characters
There are some impressive Horror Characters in movies such as the Orphan girl Esther in ‘Orphan’, the nurse Misery in the ‘Misery’, Dr. Hannibal Lecter in ‘Silence of the Lamb’ and Damien in ‘the Omen’, etc.
Between 1879 and 1898, Stoker was a business manager for the world-famous Lyceum Theatre in London, where he supplemented his income by writing a large number of sensational novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula published on May 26, 1897. Parts of it are set around the town of Whitby, where he spent summer vacations. Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, authors such as H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells wrote many tales in which fantastic creatures threatened the British Empire. Invasion literature was at a peak, and Stoker's formula of an invasion of England by continental European influences was by 1897 very familiar to readers of fantastic adventure stories. Victorian readers enjoyed it as a good adventure story like many others, but it would not reach its iconic legendary status until later in the 20th century
BASIS OF MARY SHELLEY CREATING FRANKENSTEIN
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, aged 18, and her lover (and later husband) Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited Lord Byron at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The weather was consistently too cold and dreary that summer to enjoy the outdoor holiday activities they had planned, so the group retired indoors until dawn.
She began writing what she assumed would be a short story. With Percy Shelley's encouragement, she expanded this tale into a full-fledged novel.[6] She later described that summer in Switzerland as the moment "when I first stepped out from childhood into life".[7] Byron managed to write just a fragment based on the vampire legends he heard while travelling the Balkans, and from this John Polidori created The Vampyre (1819), the progenitor of the romantic vampire literary genre. Thus, two legendary horror tales.
Dracula is featured in 161 movies, as contrasted with the 2nd most popular horror movie character of all time, Frankenstein, who is only in 115 movies.
Other Horror Characters
There are some impressive Horror Characters in movies such as the Orphan girl Esther in ‘Orphan’, the nurse Misery in the ‘Misery’, Dr. Hannibal Lecter in ‘Silence of the Lamb’ and Damien in ‘the Omen’, etc.
- monapyleung
Re: Horror Films
by monapyleung » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:03 am
BASIS OF BRAM STOKER CREATING DRACULA
Between 1879 and 1898, Stoker was a business manager for the world-famous Lyceum Theatre in London, where he supplemented his income by writing a large number of sensational novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula published on May 26, 1897. Parts of it are set around the town of Whitby, where he spent summer vacations. Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, authors such as H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells wrote many tales in which fantastic creatures threatened the British Empire. Invasion literature was at a peak, and Stoker's formula of an invasion of England by continental European influences was by 1897 very familiar to readers of fantastic adventure stories. Victorian readers enjoyed it as a good adventure story like many others, but it would not reach its iconic legendary status until later in the 20th century
BASIS OF MARY SHELLEY CREATING FRANKENSTEIN
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, aged 18, and her lover (and later husband) Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited Lord Byron at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The weather was consistently too cold and dreary that summer to enjoy the outdoor holiday activities they had planned, so the group retired indoors until dawn.
She began writing what she assumed would be a short story. With Percy Shelley's encouragement, she expanded this tale into a full-fledged novel.[6] She later described that summer in Switzerland as the moment "when I first stepped out from childhood into life".[7] Byron managed to write just a fragment based on the vampire legends he heard while travelling the Balkans, and from this John Polidori created The Vampyre (1819), the progenitor of the romantic vampire literary genre. Thus, two legendary horror tales.
Dracula is featured in 161 movies, as contrasted with the 2nd most popular horror movie character of all time, Frankenstein, who is only in 115 movies.
Other Horror Characters
There are some impressive Horror Characters in movies such as the Orphan girl Esther in ‘Orphan’, the nurse Misery in the ‘Misery’, Dr. Hannibal Lecter in ‘Silence of the Lamb’ and Damien in ‘the Omen’, etc.
Between 1879 and 1898, Stoker was a business manager for the world-famous Lyceum Theatre in London, where he supplemented his income by writing a large number of sensational novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula published on May 26, 1897. Parts of it are set around the town of Whitby, where he spent summer vacations. Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, authors such as H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells wrote many tales in which fantastic creatures threatened the British Empire. Invasion literature was at a peak, and Stoker's formula of an invasion of England by continental European influences was by 1897 very familiar to readers of fantastic adventure stories. Victorian readers enjoyed it as a good adventure story like many others, but it would not reach its iconic legendary status until later in the 20th century
BASIS OF MARY SHELLEY CREATING FRANKENSTEIN
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, aged 18, and her lover (and later husband) Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited Lord Byron at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The weather was consistently too cold and dreary that summer to enjoy the outdoor holiday activities they had planned, so the group retired indoors until dawn.
She began writing what she assumed would be a short story. With Percy Shelley's encouragement, she expanded this tale into a full-fledged novel.[6] She later described that summer in Switzerland as the moment "when I first stepped out from childhood into life".[7] Byron managed to write just a fragment based on the vampire legends he heard while travelling the Balkans, and from this John Polidori created The Vampyre (1819), the progenitor of the romantic vampire literary genre. Thus, two legendary horror tales.
Dracula is featured in 161 movies, as contrasted with the 2nd most popular horror movie character of all time, Frankenstein, who is only in 115 movies.
Other Horror Characters
There are some impressive Horror Characters in movies such as the Orphan girl Esther in ‘Orphan’, the nurse Misery in the ‘Misery’, Dr. Hannibal Lecter in ‘Silence of the Lamb’ and Damien in ‘the Omen’, etc.
- monapyleung
Re: Horror Films
by monapyleung » Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:06 pm
TRUE OR FALSE STATEMENT:
1. DRACULA'S STORY WAS BASED IN ROMANIA. TRUE OR FALSE?
2. DRACULA FELL IN LOVE WITH ONE OF HIS VICTIMS. TRUE OR FALSE?
3. FRANKENSTEIN WAS MADE OF HUMAN CORPSE REMAINS IN MARY SHELLEY'S ORIGINAL SCRIPT. TRUE OR FALSE?
4. FRANKENSTEIN WAS LOYAL TO HIS MASTER. TRUE OR FALSE?
5.BOTH DRACULA AND FRANKENSTEIN ARE THE MOST POPULAR HORROR FILM FIGURES IN MODERN FILM HISTORY. TRUE OR FALSE?
6. DRACULA AND FRANKENSTEIN ACTED TOGETHER IN A MOVIE. TRUE OR FALSE?
7. BOTH BOOKS OF DRACULA AND FRANKENSTEIN WERE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH. TRUE OR FALSE?
1. DRACULA'S STORY WAS BASED IN ROMANIA. TRUE OR FALSE?
2. DRACULA FELL IN LOVE WITH ONE OF HIS VICTIMS. TRUE OR FALSE?
3. FRANKENSTEIN WAS MADE OF HUMAN CORPSE REMAINS IN MARY SHELLEY'S ORIGINAL SCRIPT. TRUE OR FALSE?
4. FRANKENSTEIN WAS LOYAL TO HIS MASTER. TRUE OR FALSE?
5.BOTH DRACULA AND FRANKENSTEIN ARE THE MOST POPULAR HORROR FILM FIGURES IN MODERN FILM HISTORY. TRUE OR FALSE?
6. DRACULA AND FRANKENSTEIN ACTED TOGETHER IN A MOVIE. TRUE OR FALSE?
7. BOTH BOOKS OF DRACULA AND FRANKENSTEIN WERE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH. TRUE OR FALSE?
- monapyleung
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