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read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. type the words into the gaps. mind capital letters at the beginning of a sentence. no spaces before and after the word! use only full verbal forms.
movie monsters
two films came out (0) __in__ 1931 which changed cinema history. (1) were dracula and
frankenstein. there have (2) hundreds of remakes of these stories (3) then. in fact, 32 movies with dracula in the title are now available (4) video, and 29 which include the name frankenstein.
frankenstein’s monster and count dracula (5) both originally characters in novels, and it is a strange coincidence that (6) first written versions of these stories were probably created in the same place and (7) the same time. nearly 200 years (8) in the summer of 1816, the english writer, mary shelley, spent a holiday near lake geneva, in switzerland, with her husband and (9) group of friends, including a man called doctor pollidori. they all played
a party game in which everyone (10) to think of a horror story; mary narrated frankenstein and pollidori told a story called vampire.
(11) the last 200 years, these stories have been told and re-told, and the characters themselves (12) changed over time. two recent film versions (13) the stories were interview with a vampire, starring tom cruise, and mary shelley’s frankenstein, starring kenneth
branagh – but i (14) sure that they won’t (15) the last ever dracula or frankenstein movies!
