Coraline
Two former actresses who live in the flat below Coraline.
Short film in which a mother tries to scare her daughter into behaving.
What is "Kookie"?
What we call it when something suddenly scares the s*** out of us.
What is a jump scare? / What is surprise?
The name for a single image in a film.
What is a frame?
What we call the place in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
A character that appears in the film, but not in the novel.
Who is Wybie? / Who is Wyborn?
Short film in which a woman sees a female monster whenever she turns off the light.
What is "Lights Out"?
What we call it when a story gives us hints of what is to come.
What is foreshadowing? / What is set up and pay off?
What is editing?
The opposite of conscious.
In the novel, this is where Coraline must escape her other father.
Where is the cellar? / Where is the basement?
Short film in which a couple has to deal with the loss of their child.
What is "The Dollmaker"?
A psychologist who made the personality model, in which the human personality is divided into the id, the ego and the superego.
Who was (Sigmund) Freud?
The type of lighting that is most often used in horror films.
What is low-key lighting?
A type of imagery in which a thing is at the same time both a real part of or an actual object in the story but also has a metaphorical meaning.
What is a symbol?
What Coraline must find to make the Other Mother set her and her parents free.
What are the souls of the three ghosts and the whereabouts of her parents.
A tv-series and novel in which a blood spatter analyst is also a serial killer.
What is "Dexter"?
What we call the feeling of unease we get when something is slightly wrong in a story.
What is the uncanny?
A type of camera movement that gives us the feeling of chaos and of seeing things with the eyes of someone in the shot. Typically used for action scenes and Dogma films.
What is handheld camera?
What we call it when a story slowly builds up tension, e.g. by keeping information from us.
What is suspense?
What Coraline answers Mr Bobinsky when he tries to persuade her that she should stay in the Other World, because there she can have whatever she wants.
What is "I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really." (Rephrasing is ok!)
What we call it when a story takes a sudden turn, like in the ending of "The Dollmaker", when we suddenly realise that the mother is dead.
What is a plot twist?
What is horror as a mirror of the human psyche, horror as a mirror of society, and horror as a mirror of human nature?
A type of framing where we get so close to something that we cannot see the whole thing.
What is an extreme close-up?
What we call something that is unreal or doesn't belong to the physical world that we know of, e.g. ghosts.
What is the supernatural?