Who is the director of this movie Psycho?
The director of this movie Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock, "The Master of Suspense". He is a filmmaker, particularly in the genres of horror and suspense. What type of characters did he often use in horror films?
He often used insane people in his movies and also serial killers.
What technique did he use with the camera?
He used a subjective camera to reveal a character's vision.
What is the Pit and Pendulum about?
The Pit and Pendulum is about a man who is sentenced to death by three judges. He wokes up in a dark room and he is very comfused because he doesn't know where he is. He walks around the room to discover how big it is but he falls down and finds that there is a big pit in the floor. Then he wakes up again and he is tied to a cot. From the ceiling there's a cord with a pendulum with a sharpened blade which is getting closer to him. Then he looks beside him and he sees a spicy meat and a hundred of hungry rats. But after some time he can move and his captors pull the pendulum up. When he is asking for help the walls start to get closer and pull him into the pit. But when he is screaming for help an arm pulls him and the walls stop moving.
I love reading since I was little because it is the only way I can forget about everything for a moment and just focus on the amazing story I am reading.
My favourite genre of books at the moment are science fiction and adventures. I also love the dystopian fiction which is a literary genre that explores social and political structures in the creation of a degraded society in the future.
One of my favourite dystopian novels is Divergent by Veronica Roth. It is a trilogy and it consists of Divergent (2011), Insurgent (2012) and Allegiant (2013) and she also wrote another book, Four (2014), explaining some moments of the story from another perspective.
The books describe a post-apocalyptic version of Chicago, closed by a chain link fence and where society is divided into five factions: Abnegation for the selfless, Candor for the honest, Amity for the peaceful, Dauntless for the brave, and Erudite for the knowledgeable. Everyone when they turn 16 must choose a new faction, or remain in the one they have been raised in.
The whole trilogy follows Beatrice Prior (Tris), a 16 years old girl who has an aptitude for more than one faction. She is special. She is a Divergent. However, it's not safe to be a Divergent and Tris has to keep it in secret. Tris gets into a captivating journey to discover the secrets of the factions, protect herself from those who will kill her for her divergence, and find what is hidden outside the chain link fence...
They have also done the movies of the books, Divergent, Insurgent and on March 2016 Allegiant.
The actors of the movies are Shailene Woodley as Beatrice Prior, Theo James as Tobias Eaton and Ansel Elgort as Caleb Prior.
If you want to know which is your aptitude or if you are a Divergent you can take a test from the official movie site to know it. Click here.
Here you can watch the trailer of the first movie:
The tell-tale heart is about an unnamed narrator who tries to explain that he is not a madman. He starts saying thet he lives with an old man. That old man has one christal eye which makes the madman really nervous. He wants to get rid of the evil eye so he waits and watches to the old man for 7 days. One late night he goes to the old man's bedroom but he starts to hear a loud noise, it is the beating heart of the old man. He wants to stop it so he kills the old man.
Then he feels free and happy because the eye is closed and the noise is stopped. After that, the policeman comes to the house to investigate. He tells to them that the man is away for two week to the city. The policeman believes him and the madman invites them to have a cup of tee. Then he starts to get nervous for the loud noise of a beating heart again, and he finally tells to them that he have killed the old man. He goes to prision.
Who wrote the tell-heart and invented the first macabre stories?
The author who wrote the Tell-Tale Heart was Edgar Allan Poe and he also invented the first macabre stories.
What was the first P.H.S.?
The first Psychological Horror Story was Metzengerstein.
When was it first published?
It was first published on January 14, 1832.
What other story types did the author also invented? He also invented the detective story, and he was a pioneer of science fiction.
Who invented the G.N.?
The gothic novel was invented by Horace Walpole, a famous british writter.
What was the first G.N.? The Castle of Otranto was the first Gothic Novel. When was it first published?
It was published in 1764. Which basic elements of horror didn't you include on your list? The horror elements I didn't include on the list of my last post The scariest movie for me are:
I don't really enjoy watching scary movies so I haven't seen a lot of them. But I remember one that I saw in TV that I liked. It's The house at the end of the street.
The house at the end of the street is about a recently divorced mother, Sarah, and her daughter Elissa who are hoping for a new beginning in a small rural town where they find the house of their dreams. But then unexplainable events begin to happen when Sarah and Elissa learn that the town has a secret, the legend of Carrie Anne. Years earlier, in the house next door, a girl killed her parents in their beds, and then she disappeared but the body was never found. Ryan, the brother, was the only survivor and now he comes back to his parents house. Against Sarah's wishes, Elissa begins a relationship with Ryan and the closer they get, the deeper they are pulled into a mystery more dangerous than they ever imagined.
The best part of the movie is the end because it's when you finally discover what was really going on in the town but I can't explain it because if you see the movie it wouldn't be fun, so another of the best moments is when Ryan invites Sarah to get into the house because then he explains to her that what actually happened is that Carrie Anne one day fell down of the swing and after that she was complitly different. It was the first time he talked about it.
One of the things I enjoy the most doing on my free time is to watch videos on Youtube and my favourite youtuber at the moment is Casey Neistat.
Casey Neistat is an American film director, producer, designer and a creator of popular Youtube videos since 2010. He was born in New London, Connecticut, US in 1981 and he is actually living in New York with his wife Candice and his two children.
What I like about him is that he is a really hard-working person (he also has a tattoo which says DO MORE). When he was little he was very poor. He didn't even finished his studies and he worked as a dishwasher but he had a dream, he wanted to live in New York and make movies, so he did it.When he moved to New York in 2001 he began working with the artist Tom Sachs and his brother Van Neistat making series of films about the artist's sculptures and installations. One of his biggest successful projects was when in July 2008, Home Box Office HBO bought an eight-episode television series, "The Neistat Brothers" directed by Casey and Van Neistat for just under $2 million.
He has made 95 short movies on Youtube and recently, on March 25 of 2015, he started daily vlogging on his main Youtube channel.
Another thing that amazes me about him is that once he had an accident with a Vespa motorcycle and he broke his leg in 27 parts. The doctors said the he would never run again but after a hard rehab until now he have run 22 marathones. He inspires me to dream big and never give up.
Here you can see a short movie he made about the Devil's Pool, Africa:
