The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a novel written by Edgar Allan Poe. It's the story of a man that lives in Paris with his strange friend, Messieur Dupin. Dupin has a wonderful mind that allows him to know everything people are thinking or are going to do by just following logical thoughts. One day there are two mysterious murders in the Rue Morgue. Two dead women were found in their house by their neighbours, in really weird circumstances. The police is investigating who can be the murder, but Messieur Dupin and the narrator start their own investigation around the crime.
Personally I think that this novel is a bit strange. Dupin is a very interesting character that surprised me from the begginig with his convincing logic. The murders also surprised me because of the sadism they have. The end was kind of strange and weird. I mean, who could have imagined it? In the beggining I had suspections around Messieur Dupin, he knew too much. But I'm not going to tell you who the murder is, if you want to know you have to read the story.
I haven't seen many horror films because I get scared easily, but I think that my favourite horror film is The Woman in Black. It is based on a novel of the same name.
I saw it for the first time in the cinema and, I can tell, on the big screen was scarier.
The film is the story of Arthur Kipps, a young lawyer, widower, that has to travel to a lonely town, leaving his son in the city with the nanny. The reason why he has to go there is because a customer of his lawyer company has died suddenly, leaving all the paperwork undone. Arthur goes to the customer's house, the Eel Marsh house, but no one in the town wants to approach there. They say that the house is haunted by the spirit of the Woman in Black. In addition, the surrounding area of the house is a marshland that floods by hours. The villagers are scared because everytime someone sees the Woman in Black, the children of the village start to die. When Arthur is in the house, he sees the Woman in Black, and since that moment the curse starts.
I like this film so much because it's not the bloody type of film, it's more psychological horror. There are frightening moments, and it's full of tension, even in the end. The film soundtrack was scary too.
My favourite scene was the moment when Arthur approches his hand to touch the window paine, because there's a mark left by a hand, and when he touches it, the face of a screaming woman appears and frightens him.
The worst scene for me it's the one when Arthur goes to his friend's house and his friend's wife starts to say and do weird things like if she was possessed.
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The comic relief is a funny scene in a horror/suspense movie. It's often used in horror films to free the constant tension for a moment.
I laughed in some horror films, in that comic relief. I laughed in the film Sleepy Hollow, when the main character, Ichabod Crane, was frightened, hiding behind the blankets of his bed, because he had seen the headless horseman. Also, it was very funny when he fainted.
Alfred Hitchcock was the master of suspense. His most famous film is Psycho. He often used psychopaths (murderers, serial killers, sociopath, mad people...) in his films. He used to film the shadows to get more suspense.
The story of the Tell-Tale Heart, written by Edgar Allan Poe, is about a mad man that lives in a big house with an old man. This old man has a white eye, and the mad man is obsess with it. He wants to get rid off the eye and he kills the old man. He hides the body under the floor. Two policemen come to the house and ask about the old man, but he says that the old man is on hollyday. He invites the policemen to a cup of tea but the teapot breakes and the sound reminds the mad man of the sound o the old man's heart. He gets mad and tells the policemen that he has killed the old man. The mad man goes to jail.
The inventor of the PHS (Psychological Horror Story) is Edgar Allan Poe, and the first macabre story he wrote is Metzengerstein, which was first published in 1832.
He also invented the Detective Stories and was a pioneer of the science fiction.
A gothic novel is a kind of novel that includes mystery, fear and, sometimes, magical or supernatural elements that cannot be explained. The gothic novel appeared in the eighteenth century and it's related to Romaticism.
The gothic novel was invented by Horace Walpole. His novel, The Castle of Otranto, is considered the first gothic novel. It was first published in 1764.
Some elements that neither me nor my teammates included in our horror elements' list are these: the atmosphere of mystery and suspense, ancient prophecies, omens, portents and visions, footsteps approaching, haste, largeness, thunderstruck, old castles or mansions, darkness, uncontrollable rage, sorrow, despair, anguish, something or someone wretched, possessions, dread and many more you can find here.
