Creepy Creatures
Movies with these creatures play with the idea of Uncanny Valley to make you afraid. What creature is it?
Dolls
It was standard practice to keep items to remember the dead. What was that practice called and what is the most famous memorial item?
Memento Mori
Mary Shelley kept her late husband's calcified heart
In Dark Shadows, Barnabas Collins is becomes a vampire in a unique way compared to most. What makes his transition so special?
Witchcraft
Halloween was once called what?
All Hallow's Eve
Aside from Carmilla, what other names does the vampire go by to confuse her prey?
European Gothics were very fixated on royalty and the Enlightenment. What historic events inspired the American Gothic movement?
List 3 ways Big Fish qualifies as a (Southern) Gothic
1. Isolated in the town of Spectre and the Witch's House
2. Supernatural elements: the Fish, the Witch,etc.
3. Grotesque: bank robbery
4. Transgression of boundaries
5. Tall tale format
6. Ecophobia with the Witch's House
Why wear costumes?
To blend in with and hide from the Dead
What might the werewolf story "The Girls who Follow" be social commentary about?
Toxic relationships/ domestic violence
Queen Victoria was a trendsetter. How did her grief for her husband change Gothic fashion forever?
She wore black for an excessive amount of time, making black clothing and mourning wear popular
Vampires typically lean into the Plague/Disease trope hard. The Lost Boys was iconic in a number of ways but which disease was it making social commentary on and how?
the HIV/AIDS epidemic through David and Michael being so queer coded
Before pumpkins, what was used for jack-o-lanterns?
potatoes and turnips
Godzilla sure is popular! His story and that of other Kaiju usually incorporate which popular Gothic trope?
Ecophobia
What are the 3 requirements according to the Pope for a corpse to be "incorruptible" or holy?
1. Catholic
2. Not preserved, embalmed, or mummified
3. "Flexible"
It plays a lot in class, but Ryan Gosling of Ken and Barbie fame made an album based on which popular spooky children's movie?
The album Dead Man's Bones was based on Gosling's fascination with the Haunted Mansion
Bobbing for apples used to be done to honor a specific Goddess'. Who?
Pomona/ Demeter
Give 3 ways that Alien fits Cohen's monster theses
1. Defies Categorization
2. A cultural body representing queerness and ecophobia
3. Monsters represent desire=the director intended her design to be phallic
Beauty standards have always been sketchy at best. List 2 ways you could be Tuberculosis chic
TB Chic
To look like you had TB, you could pour citrus or nightshade in your eye to look glassy; eat arsenic wafers to stay thin and pale, or rouge on the cheeks to look feverish; large skirts to look like you have a thinner waist
This famous literary vampire inspired the director of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Name the vamp
What is the most popularly sold candy during Halloween?
Skittles