The Gothic
On a dark and stormy night, this author won with the scariest story
Mary Shelley
The 19th century belief in contacting the spirit world through automatic writing, séances, and mediums
Spiritism/Spiritualism
The Monster played by....... ?
Boris Karloff
When something is there that should not be there
The weird
Why was Nosferatu not called "Dracula"?
Copyright infringement
This movement emphasized subjectivity, inspiration, and the human relationship to nature
Romanticism
"The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots" (1895) gave one of the first examples of this editing technique
Substitute Splice
Spanish director who influenced the surrealists
Segundo de Chomón
When something is missing that should be there
The Eerie
This was the first art film ever
"The Student of Prague" (1913)
The confused awe at greatness and darkness that our mind can’t grasp.
The sublime
One of the most popular reasons in the Victorian era to commission a photograph
Mourning/Remembrance
This trick cinema pioneer had a long career on the stage which he brought with him into filmmaking
Georges Méliès
The horror of the strangely familiar
The uncanny
What artistic movement believes in nothing?
Dada
What is the relationship between horror and terror?
It is indexical
The gooey fluid that came out of the mouth and nostrils of spirit mediums
Ectoplasm
Theda Bara
An outdated catch-all term for mental distress and somatization
Hysteria
Name two techniques that FW Murnau used to make Nosferatu - "a creature made out of cinema"
Stop motion, prosthetic makeup, negative film printing, etc.
This Gothic author made a distinction between "horror" and "terror" and had a clear preference for "Terror"
Ann Radcliffe
A drowned man
The pioneer of magic lantern shows
Robertson AKA Étienne-Gaspard Robert
This doctor believed that hauntings were the result of physical imbalances in the body
Dr. John Ferriar
Who did the real Caligari turn out to be?
The narrator's doctor at the insane asylum