Monday, January 14, 2019

Gothic Tropes

Tropes of Gothic films:
  • reanimating the dead 
  • mad scientists 
  • the damsel 
  • high contrast 
  • shouting about discoveries 
  • suspicious people/creepy butlers 
  • old mansions 
  • storms 
  • seclusion/isolation 
  • monologuing 
  • extremes of nature 
  • messing with nature/testing nature 
  • creatures/monsters