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• What are Horror Films made to do?• Horror films are to excite and to thrill the person

watching the horror film. The horror film can achieve to excite and thrill the person by making them think about the film and messing with their head to think certain characters or situations are real. When the film makes the person think about the characters or the situation it’s called a psychological thriller which is a genre which branches off horror and terror.

The key conventions of horror

• Settings• Spooky house• Thunder and lighting• Usually during the night• Usually a large house• Camera angle• Extreme close up to show the persons emotions in a more detailed way• Close up to show the persons emotions• Over the shoulder shot to show what the person is seeing• Long shot which is usually at the beginning of the house• Low shot or high shot. The higher the person is the more power they possess.• Characters• Demons• Monsters• Serial killers• Possessed people who are known as victims

Analysis of a FilmInsidious chapter 2

This is a long shot of the house at the beginning of the trailer. This shot will set the setting and location for the rest of the film

This is an over the shoulder shot of the woman. This shot at the beginning also shows signs of equilibrium (balanced and calm) as the dad and son are play fighting.

This is a close up of the character in insidious chapter 2. The close up shot shows his emotions which is pain at the moment.

This is a doubler shot. The shot is used to show that both characters where talking.

Analysis Of Sinister

This is an establishing shot. This is used to set the location for the vast majority of the film.

This is an over the shoulder shot. This type of shot is used to show what the character is seeing from their prospective.

This is a high shot as the camera shot is quite high. This type of shot is used to show weak the person could be as the camera is looking down on them.

This is a long body shot. This type of shot shows the body language of the character. It this shot the character is quite un easy and on end.

History of Horror• Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction

from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears. Horror films often feature scenes that startle the viewer; the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Thus they may overlap with the fantasy, supernatural, and thriller genres.

• Horror films often deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world. Prevalent elements include ghosts, aliens, vampires, werewolves, demons, vicious animals, monsters, zombies, cannibals, and serial killers. Conversely, movies about the supernatural are not necessarily always horrific.

• The most famous first horror film was nosferatu in 1920 and Frankenstein in 1935. These two films set the standard at the time for horror film in the early 1940’s.

List of the first horror films in the 1890’s