AUTHOR/DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHICAL
HORROR GENRE AUTHOR/DIRECTOR TRIVIA
HORROR ELEMENTS AND TECHNIQUES
CHARACTERS AND MOVIES
VILLAINS AND EVIL FORCES
100
Suffered the loss of major females in his life, mostly through tuberculosis and suffered from depression and alcoholism
Who is Edgar Allan Poe ?
100
I have a great amount of fears and superstitions and love to get at my readers by terrifying, horrifying them and eventually grossing them out
Who is Stephen King?
100
This is the three step technique Stephen King uses to captivate his readers
What is terror, horror and gross?
100
This story deals with a prince who thinks he can control a plague in his nation by keeping "his" people locked up behind the castle walls
What is Masque Of The Red Death
100
This creature lurked beneath the Atlantic waters viciously attacking unsuspecting swimmers, proving that nature can still overcome man.
What is Jaws? (or great white shark)
200
This author uses the elderly and youthful characters as the ones who confront or are affected by evil in his works
Who is Steven King?
200
I had an awful obsession with death and the process of how one dies
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
200
This element was used to indicate the incoming presence of threatening danger.
What is music?
200
This man was the police chief of Amity in the movie Jaws
Who is Chief Brody?
200
Poe was plagued by loss of his closest loved ones and often used this in his stories-often represented by the color red
What is TB (tuberculosis) ?
300
This director was raised by overly strict Catholic parents and was often times harshly treated and wrongfully accused for things. He later reflected harsh treatment and wrongful accusations in his films.
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
300
I dropped out of college in 1969 but did finish my degree 33 years later and have became one of the greatest directors of all time
Who is Steven Spielberg?
300
Alfred Hitchcock gives this object the ability to take on human qualities and roam around playfully looking for something suspicious in a room, drawing the audience visually to what is going on besides the actors' dialogue.
What is the camera?
300
This character meets her demise in a shower at Bates Hotel
Who is Marion Crane? (woman who stole money and is hiding at Bates Hotel)
300
This individual came to and wreaked havoc along with a tremendous winter storm on the inhabitants of a small Maine island in Storm of The Century.
Who is Lenoge?
400
This director suggested the presence of an impending dangerous creature to be signaled by music in this highest grossing film for 1975.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
400
We have made brief appearances in some of movies and shows
Who are Stephen King and Alfred Hitchcock?
400
This often involves men watching women in Hitchcock films
What is "the Hitchcock gaze"?
400
This character was played by John Cusack and this character was the author of the title story which was the title of the movie.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
400
This character had a difficult time dealing with his feelings and urges due to the abusive treatment from his mother as a boy and often dealt with his conflicted feelings in a violent manner
Who is Norman Bates?
500
This author wrote about other dimensions and gods which he considered to be a real part of our entire world, but his works were often considered fiction
Who is H.P. Lovecraft?
500
I love to give twisted ending by leading my characters to false accusations and giving them conflicted emotions
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
500
Alfred Hitchcock designs everything in his films for the minds of whom?
Who is the audience?
500
This was the name of the boat Chief Brody, Mr. Hooper and Quint sailed out on to catch the great white shark in Jaws
What is the Orca?
500
This was the name of the evil minister who was trying to get Carol Ann to join him in the movie Poltergeist II
Who is Kane?