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WorksheetsHorror 1
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Early Horror drew its inspirations from
Films
Real life stories
The church
Literature
Which Victorian writer terrified his audience with supernatural tales?
Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
Steven Speilberg
Alfred Hitchcock
The Joyous Skeleton - when was it created and first watched?
(a)
What is the name the film that featured this character?
Frankenstein
Freddy Kruger
Nosferatu
Dracula
Why was Nosferatu an important film?
It had a plotline, characters and setting - a horror that a viewer could follow.
It used captions.
It was about Dracula.
What innovation in the 1930s revolutionised the film industry?
The invention of moving cameras
Technology to record sound in films.
Lighting technology.
Alfred Hitchcock's suspense.
Who is this?
Boris Karloff
Charles Dickens
Mr Frankle
Bela Lugosi
What famous horror character did he play?
Scrooge
Dracula
Frankenstein
Nosferatu
What is the name of this famous horror actor?
Boris Karloff
Bela Lugosi
Alfred Hitchcock
Stephen Speilberg
What role was he famous for?
Dracula
Dr Frankenstein
Frankenstein's monster
Psycho
Why weren't there any films made in Europe during the 1940s?
Lack of budget
Lack of technology
America took over
Europe was at war
The Americans continued to make movies during the war years but the Nazi regime did affect the industry - true or false?
true
false
In what way did the film industry use the Nazi regime as inspiration?
The SS wolf emblem gave rise to horror tales of human animal hybrids
They created stories about death and bloodshed
They filmed newsreels about Nazi atrocities
