Horror

The Shining• Genre: Psychological horror• Release date: May 23rd 1980• Cast: Jack Nicolson, Shelly Duvall, Danny Lloyd,

Scatman Crothers…• Director: Stanley Kubrick• Produced by: Stanley Kubrick• Synopsis:

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the

father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

Opening Scene: • Dramatic. intense music• Aerial/establishing shots of panoramic landscape• Daytime (sun)• Forests• Progresses the narrative only slightlyhttps://www.youtube.com/watc

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The Exorcist• Genre: Horror• Release date: June 19th 1973• Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb,

Kitty Winn…• Director: William Friedkin• Produced by: William Peter Blatty• Synopsis:

When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to

save her daughter.Opening sequence: • Creepy, eerie soundtrack• Does not progress the narrative• Black screen• Red font• More stylised font

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpw-GbEpjR4

The Purge: Anarchy• Genre: Horror• Release date: May 2nd 2013• Cast: Ethan Hawke, Lena Headay, Max

Burkholder…• Director: James DeManaco• Produced by: Jason Blum, Sébastien K. Lemercier,

Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller• Synopsis:

In the future, a wealthy family is held hostage for harbouring the target of a murderous syndicate

during the Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legalized.

Opening Scene: • Classical music• Dark lighting• People dying• Fire, guns (chaos)• Small font

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0lcdgDCytA

Texas Chainsaw Massacre(1974)

• Genre: Horror• Release date: October 1st 1974• Cast: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Andrew

Bryniarski…• Director: Marcus Nipsel• Produced by: Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper, Jay

Parsley, Richard Saenz• Synopsis: After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five

friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of

equally psychopathic killers.Opening Scene:• Black screen• Intense, suspenseful soundtrack• Narrator (voiceover)• Dead bodies• Graveyard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McqekAnVs5w

Hostel III• Genre: Horror• Release date: December 27th 2011• Cast: Kip Pardue, Brian Hallisay, John Hensley, Sarah

Habel…• Director: Scott Spiegel• Produced by: Scott Spiegel, Mike Fleiss, Chris Briggs• Synopsis: While attending a bachelor party in Las Vegas, four friends

are enticed by two sexy escorts to join them at a private party way off the Strip. Once there, they are horrified to find

themselves the subjects of a perverse game of torture, where members of the Elite Hunting Club are hosting the

most sadistic show in town. Opening Scene: • Light hearted music• City• Main character• Stylised font• Night time https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE3P8u8pAPE

Sinister• Genre: Horror• Release date: March 11th 2012• Cast: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James

Ransone…• Director: Scott Derrikson• Produced by: Jason Blum, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones• Synopsis:

A true-crime writer finds a cache of 8mm home movies films that suggest the murder he is currently researching is the work of a serial killer whose career

dates back to the 1960s.Opening Scene: • Blurry picture• Suspenseful music• People being hung (dying)• Stylised font

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsd8xsgPIqA