Halloween

'Tis the season for ghosts, ghouls and fear.'

Tim Burton's "The nightmare before Christmas".

Scared stiff - vocabulary practice.

Read the text and underline the words that refer to fear and horror movies:

Being a bit of a scaredy-cat, I’m not really into horror films. But every now and then I like to sit down and watch one with my friends. I’m not very squeamish so I don’t really find gory films very frightening but anything to do with eyes gives me the heebie-jeebies, so I find any scenes where people get the eyes cut or poked out really unsettling.

The films that really send shivers down my spine are psychological horror films. For me they are far scarier than gory films. The ones where some people are exploring a spooky house and there’s some creepy music playing put me on edge because you don’t know when something is going to jump out and scare you half to death. Sometimes the scariest thing is when we’re watching a horror film and and the house phone suddenly rings, or the cat makes a sound and we jump out of our skin with fright.

My best friend is slightly different to me. She’s petrified of spiders and anything that looks like a spider, but they don’t really bother me. Once we watched a film about giant aliens bugs and we had to switch it off because she was shaking like a leaf!

Are you a thrill-seeker or a scaredy-cat?

Americans love to be scared and the haunted house is a Halloween season staple. These haunted homes, located in towns across the U.S., are the crime scenes for true tales of axe murders and massacres, lost children, and angry demons and ghosts—they're guaranteed to give you more shivers than even the best Halloween movies. Would you stay the night at one of those? Are you a thrill-seeker or a scaredy-cat? Answer the question using between 80 and 130 words.

Tim Burton’s tribute to Vincent Price & Edgar Allan Poe (1982).

Tim Burton is best known for his gothic fantasy and horror films like Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Beetlejuice.

Burton collaborated with American actor Vincent Price to create a short animated film for Disney titled Vincent in 1982. This short six-minute film gives us an insight into the macabre vision of Tim Burton. The title of the film does not refer to the actor but the protagonist of Burton’s short, seven-year-old Vincent Malloy.

Burton was one of the biggest fans of Price and this film was the beginning of a close friendship until Price’s death in 1993. Price described his experience as “the most gratifying thing that ever happened” and Burton would later cast the American actor for his1990 film Edward Scissorhands.

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John Cotton Dana

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