LESSON 4 - FLIPPED LESSON RESOURCE
Horror Types
In class we have covered the following types of Gothic, SCI-FI, Paranormal, and Survival. On this page we are going to expand your understanding by going further in depth of their elements of what determines each type.
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Now each type can hold elements of other types, where gothic horror contains supernatural characters, and survival may include science-fiction.
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The type is determined by the overarching story of the piece.
Supernatural/Paranormal
Ghosts, Spirits, Demons, and Monsters.
Talk to Me
(2023)
Talk to Me is a brilliantly original, terrifying Australian horror movie with disturbing imagery that will linger long after the closing credits. The scares come as a result of a group of young people -- led by Mia, who's trying to deal with her mother's death by suicide -- playing a game that leads to them becoming possessed. There are brutal sequences where those who are under the otherworldly influence attack themselves and others.
Frankenstein
This edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. Frankenstein tells the story of gifted scientist Victor Frankenstein who succeeds in giving life to a being of his own creation. However, this is not the perfect specimen he imagines that it will be, but rather a hideous creature who is rejected by Victor and mankind in general.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Perculiar Children.
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive.
SCI-FI
Scientific disasters, space exploration, aliens, mutated animals, and extreme natural disasters.
Welcome to Beast Island
R.L Stine (2020)
Alien
(1979)
Karla and her little brother Benny accompany their uncle Bill on a scientific expedition to study unidentified species on a remote island, but a little "bad luck" promises unimaginable horrors, including Benny getting bit by a scary swamp snake.
In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship. An organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to one of the crew, causing him to fall into a coma.
The Fly
(1986)
Seth, a brilliant scientist, is elated when he successfully manages to teleport himself in his own invention, a transportation machine. But, unbeknownst to him, he was not alone during the process. He begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Survival
Something has gone terribly wrong and your goal: Don't die before help arrives or before you reach an exit. Survival uses elements of all other genres, as long as the overall theme is for the characters to survive.
The Last of Us
2022
Tasked with escorting a teenager across a post-apocalyptic world, a dreaded smuggler joins hands with a young apprentice to fulfil the mission unscathed A zombie apocalypse series like no other, based off the popular video game series The Last of Us.
Resident Evil
(Videogame series)
​Resident Evil, or Biohazard in Japan and Southeast Asia, is a Japanese horror game media franchise created by Capcom. It consists of survival horror, third-person shooter and first-person shooter games, with players typically surviving in environments inhabited by zombies and other frightening creatures
Squid Game
(2021 TV show)
Squid Game is a South Korean drama in which a group of desperate and poor people from all backgrounds and ages are invited to participate in a game with a top prize of 45.6 billion Won (around USD 35 million). However, when the games begin the players realize that those who are eliminated are actually killed.
Gothic
Romantic characters, dramatic plot points, more of a focus on the atmosphere & mood of the piece, often set in classical periods, and commonly formal settings.
Rebecca
Alfred Hitchcock 1940
A shy young woman, whose name is significantly never revealed, meets the handsome, aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter in Monte Carlo and is swept off her feet by his whirlwind courtship. Following their wedding, they move to his Cornish estate Manderley, where the brooding Maxim once lived with his first wife Rebecca. Manderley is ruled over by sinister housekeeper Mrs Danvers, who is ferociously devoted to the memory of her dead mistress and undermines the new wife at every turn.
The Elephant Man David Lynch 1980
Shot in superb black and white by Freddie Francis, David Lynch’s marvellous, deeply moving film concerns John Merrick, a man so terribly deformed that he’s displayed in freak shows until a doctor (Hopkins) takes an interest in his condition and welfare. Though this variant on the beauty and the beast theme is in some ways Lynch’s most conventional film, its vision of Victorian London is also the stuff of nightmares. Hurt’s subtly nuanced performance as Merrick is enormously expressive.
The Tell Tale Heart
Edgar Allen Poe 1843
​"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed