Monday, 23 January 2017
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Thursday, 17 November 2016
Survey Monkey Responses
33 female responses
Total= 50
6 often responses
11 never responses
33 occasionally responses
22 psychological responses
5 zombie responses
3 gothic responses
5 vampire responses
7 supernatural responses
6 other responses:
"Don't watch horror".
7 effective music responses
1 supernatural characters/ events response
8 haunted house events/people getting possessed by demons responses
7 clown responses
4 violent, bloody or graphic events responses
2 masks responses
1 serial killers response
5 other responses:
"All of the above".
8 music/soundtrack responses
22 storyline responses
8 characters responses
4 gorey scenes responses
5 camera angles responses
3 other responses:
"Jump scares".
7 woods responses
18 hospital responses
7 abandoned school responses
4 other responses:
"All of the above."
"An old castle".
4 End of the Phone Call responses
8 Her responses
10 Listen Don't Speak responses
3 Lest Us Forget responses
4 The Day it Happened responses
11 In Loving Memory responses
8 Other responses:
"Beneath."
"Here We Lie".
"Annabelle."
"The Omen."
"The Others."
"The Ring."
"The Purge."
"The Conjuring."
"Seven."
"The Conjuring 2."
"Woman In Black."
"IT."
"Insidious."
"Scream."
"Theatre of Blood."
"What we do in the Shadows."
"Dark Water."
"Misery."
"Exorcist."
Most popular response: "The Shining".
This survey was helpful to me to see what the public think about horrors and how their opinions could influence a lot of my filming preparation, eg. my film is going to be a psychological horror, which was the most popular genre in my survey. Finding out what people thought about the different titles was helpful to see which one I should use so that I can start working on my mast heads and titles for my poster or magazine. Knowing whether they were male or female allowed me to work out what the different genders picked in general, and knowing what their favorite film is I found helpful, as it allowed me to see what people find effective in different horror films. I could be inspired from some of "The Shining" being the most popular response & look at it's scenes to see what is the most effective form of scaring the audience.
Monday, 24 October 2016
Planning the filming
The following camera angles are what I am going to film for my trailer.
Victim (protagonist of trailer) shot angles:
Close up: Her hand holding a necklace her sister gave to her
Wide shot, tracking shot, pan: Girl walking in the garden
Following the girl in front and behind
Point of view shot/subject filming: sees the caravan through the girl's eyes
Tilt shot of her looking up to the sky
Wide shot of bedrooms, garden, caravan and the house in general to establish location
Close-up of wounds on the girl's body
Point of view shots: opening and closing doors
Mug shots of girl screaming showing emotion
Wide shots of her inside her sister's bedroom crying
Hand-held shots of girl falling to floor
Camera angles for the dead sister:
Black and white or sepia flashbacks at start of trailer. hand-held shots and subject filming (through sister's eyes) of her in garden walking, turning round and smiling at the camera, filming her from behind, sitting in the car, close-ups of her being happy.
In contrast: the sister believes that she can see her sister's dead body wherever she goes and goes mad. Dead body is lying on floor with messy hair, simple dark clothing and open eyes lying on the floor in wide shots in kitchen, bathroom and bedroom floors.
Victim (protagonist of trailer) shot angles:
Close up: Her hand holding a necklace her sister gave to her
Wide shot, tracking shot, pan: Girl walking in the garden
Following the girl in front and behind
Point of view shot/subject filming: sees the caravan through the girl's eyes
Tilt shot of her looking up to the sky
Wide shot of bedrooms, garden, caravan and the house in general to establish location
Close-up of wounds on the girl's body
Point of view shots: opening and closing doors
Mug shots of girl screaming showing emotion
Wide shots of her inside her sister's bedroom crying
Hand-held shots of girl falling to floor
Camera angles for the dead sister:
Black and white or sepia flashbacks at start of trailer. hand-held shots and subject filming (through sister's eyes) of her in garden walking, turning round and smiling at the camera, filming her from behind, sitting in the car, close-ups of her being happy.
In contrast: the sister believes that she can see her sister's dead body wherever she goes and goes mad. Dead body is lying on floor with messy hair, simple dark clothing and open eyes lying on the floor in wide shots in kitchen, bathroom and bedroom floors.
Effects of lighting
High key Low key
Lighting in a horror film is very important for how you want the audience to react.
High key lighting is when the atmosphere and location is very bright, with sunshine, colours and happiness. Often in horrors we see this at the start of the film before things turn bad.
Low key lighting is when the lighting is very dark with lots of contrast and shadows. This is used to create the effect of not knowing what is around the corner or what may be out there.
Some trailer examples with low key lighting:
Annabelle- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paFgQNPGlsg
In the first few seconds of Annabelle's trailer, the establishing shot is dark and shadowy, the audience can't see around corners and the only source of light is the one coming from the house. This creates an isolation around the house and a enigma code- what could be out in the darkness?
The Boy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1U21VBSbSs
The Witch- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjBN0ByAqDk
German Expressionism links to this, as these films were known for their shadows, corners and silhouettes creating an un-nerving atmosphere that would cause fear and confusion to the audience.
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuocVLKdSqQ
In this film the monochrome has a high contrast of light and darkness, especially from 21:30-21:51, as the set is very angular and unusual with different shapes and areas of darkness where we can't see anything. This is a good example of low-key lighting.
Faust- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flnxq2HMOqA
Metropolis- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0NzALRJifI
Horror Music Research
The Shining main title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbI19Pt_nU
Kubrick chose to use some music by the avant-garde classical composer, Krzysztof Penderecki. A famous composition he wrote was called Polymorphia, which has many eerie scratching, squeaking and un-nerving sounds.
The crackling noises along with wailing sounds create a tense atmosphere making the audience wonder what is going to happen. The repetitive notes throughout create a hypnotic sound and make the audience wonder when the next scare will be. He was inspired by this composer as the music cresendos and builds tension and adrenaline, but then stops suddenly, making the audience jump or not know what to expect next.
The Woman In Black opening theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZzgxCVBa1M&list=PL3qcecRT3YPufrt4II32VJnm6gdMCP8Ly
The chimes and notes in this piece suggest things to do with children from the tone. The repetitive notes and the tense build up of squeaking sounds create tension and really terrify the audience.
Dead Silence theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ix2-HV63Ek
This song again suggests children through the musical box sound. This is effective as it is twisting the idea of a music box, which is meant to sooth a child, but this is very different.
Saw theme tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWaNoK3gN6M
This song doesn't seem as creepy or psycological, it has tension but more of a heroic and building atmosphere almost like an action story. This could suggest the feelings of the victims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbI19Pt_nU
Kubrick chose to use some music by the avant-garde classical composer, Krzysztof Penderecki. A famous composition he wrote was called Polymorphia, which has many eerie scratching, squeaking and un-nerving sounds.
The crackling noises along with wailing sounds create a tense atmosphere making the audience wonder what is going to happen. The repetitive notes throughout create a hypnotic sound and make the audience wonder when the next scare will be. He was inspired by this composer as the music cresendos and builds tension and adrenaline, but then stops suddenly, making the audience jump or not know what to expect next.
The Woman In Black opening theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZzgxCVBa1M&list=PL3qcecRT3YPufrt4II32VJnm6gdMCP8Ly
The chimes and notes in this piece suggest things to do with children from the tone. The repetitive notes and the tense build up of squeaking sounds create tension and really terrify the audience.
Dead Silence theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ix2-HV63Ek
This song again suggests children through the musical box sound. This is effective as it is twisting the idea of a music box, which is meant to sooth a child, but this is very different.
Saw theme tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWaNoK3gN6M
This song doesn't seem as creepy or psycological, it has tension but more of a heroic and building atmosphere almost like an action story. This could suggest the feelings of the victims.
Tuesday, 18 October 2016
My New Narrative
I recently thought about how I could change my narrative slightly by having a deeper story line. I want to keep elements from the old narrative but change them slightly in the following ways.
5 years ago a young girl looses her older sister. She can't get over the loss and she misses her very much. The sister who died used to regularly go on camping holidays with her boyfriend/friends on the weekends, and the caravan is still in the girl's family garden. The girl regularly goes down to the caravan for comfort and to bring back memories. She also rings the number that used to be her sisters, and it always goes to voicemail. She loves to hear her sister's voice and sometimes she will leave a message.
In my trailer I am planning on starting with the girl reflecting on her sister's death with voice overs, visiting the caravan and ringing the number. I will also include some flashbacks. Further on the line things start to get strange, as the caravan might look different how it did to last time, or things move inside the house or the garden might get ruined. Eventually the girl will ring the phone number, and someone answers. I also might get a shot of the girl finding the sister buried underground, who might stand up and walk from her grave.
My new narrative follows Tzvetan Todorov's theory, as the narrative starts off with equilibrium of happy flashbacks of the two sisters, then we see the disruption of the sister dying by seeing different shots of the younger sister upset about the situation. We see the situation thickening and getting worse the more we see and the more she tries to resolve the situation near the end crescendo, however because it was a trailer I'd created, I can't reveal the entire narrative so the ending equilibrium explained in the theory won't be shown in my trailer. A common convention of horror films is for the ending to finish with equilibrium.
5 years ago a young girl looses her older sister. She can't get over the loss and she misses her very much. The sister who died used to regularly go on camping holidays with her boyfriend/friends on the weekends, and the caravan is still in the girl's family garden. The girl regularly goes down to the caravan for comfort and to bring back memories. She also rings the number that used to be her sisters, and it always goes to voicemail. She loves to hear her sister's voice and sometimes she will leave a message.
In my trailer I am planning on starting with the girl reflecting on her sister's death with voice overs, visiting the caravan and ringing the number. I will also include some flashbacks. Further on the line things start to get strange, as the caravan might look different how it did to last time, or things move inside the house or the garden might get ruined. Eventually the girl will ring the phone number, and someone answers. I also might get a shot of the girl finding the sister buried underground, who might stand up and walk from her grave.
My new narrative follows Tzvetan Todorov's theory, as the narrative starts off with equilibrium of happy flashbacks of the two sisters, then we see the disruption of the sister dying by seeing different shots of the younger sister upset about the situation. We see the situation thickening and getting worse the more we see and the more she tries to resolve the situation near the end crescendo, however because it was a trailer I'd created, I can't reveal the entire narrative so the ending equilibrium explained in the theory won't be shown in my trailer. A common convention of horror films is for the ending to finish with equilibrium.
"Powers of Horror"- an essay by Julia Kristeva
This essay addresses abjection which is about how viewers feel when watching horror. Abjection is the feeling where you feel fascinated about the horror but at the same time feeling disgusted by it. Kristeva was one of the first people to write about abjection.
"It lies there, quite close, but it cannot be assimilated. It beseeches, worries, and fascinates desire, which, nevertheless, does not let itself be seduced. Apprehensive, desire turns aside; sickened, it rejects".
This quote describes in detail the feeling you get watching gruesome events. She talks about how it worries you, a sickening feeling but fascinates desire at the same time. Horror is taking something out of the ordinary world and turning it to frighten others, which isn't what humans were made to do originally.
"Loathing an item of food, a piece of filth, waste, or dung. The spasms and vomiting that protect me. The repugnance, the retching that thrusts me to the side and turns me away from defilement, sewage, and muck. The shame of compromise, of being in the middle of treachery. The fascinated start that leads me to toward and separates me from them".
This quote describes how the disgusted feeling is like in your mind and body which is not pleasant, but at the same time the horror leads you towards it. Love/hate relationship.
"Food loathing is perhaps the most elementary and most archaic form of abjection. When the eyes see or the lips touch that skin on the surface of milk- harmless, thin as a sheet of cigarette paper, pitiful as a nail paring- I experience a gagging sensation and, still farther down, spasms in the stomach, the belly; and all the organs shrivel up the body, provoke tears and bile, increase heartbeat, cause forehead and hands to perspire. Along with sight-clouding dizziness, nausea makes me balk at that milk cream".
This quote is a very graphic and visual description of how you feel watching horror linked with food, and the reason why it makes people feel so disgusted is because horrors show these scenes in such detail and audiences can thoroughly imagine the feeling of these things being inside us. These feelings are described in this quote, eg. gagging.
"It lies there, quite close, but it cannot be assimilated. It beseeches, worries, and fascinates desire, which, nevertheless, does not let itself be seduced. Apprehensive, desire turns aside; sickened, it rejects".
This quote describes in detail the feeling you get watching gruesome events. She talks about how it worries you, a sickening feeling but fascinates desire at the same time. Horror is taking something out of the ordinary world and turning it to frighten others, which isn't what humans were made to do originally.
"Loathing an item of food, a piece of filth, waste, or dung. The spasms and vomiting that protect me. The repugnance, the retching that thrusts me to the side and turns me away from defilement, sewage, and muck. The shame of compromise, of being in the middle of treachery. The fascinated start that leads me to toward and separates me from them".
This quote describes how the disgusted feeling is like in your mind and body which is not pleasant, but at the same time the horror leads you towards it. Love/hate relationship.
"Food loathing is perhaps the most elementary and most archaic form of abjection. When the eyes see or the lips touch that skin on the surface of milk- harmless, thin as a sheet of cigarette paper, pitiful as a nail paring- I experience a gagging sensation and, still farther down, spasms in the stomach, the belly; and all the organs shrivel up the body, provoke tears and bile, increase heartbeat, cause forehead and hands to perspire. Along with sight-clouding dizziness, nausea makes me balk at that milk cream".
This quote is a very graphic and visual description of how you feel watching horror linked with food, and the reason why it makes people feel so disgusted is because horrors show these scenes in such detail and audiences can thoroughly imagine the feeling of these things being inside us. These feelings are described in this quote, eg. gagging.
Monday, 17 October 2016
Research into different horror titles
I did some research on different types of titles for horror magazines, posters and films. I noticed that the majority of horror magazine titles were fantasy or dreamlike, eg. "Nightmare" or "Shadows and Tall Trees". Some others I found were called "Cemetery Dance", "Splatterpunk Zinc", "Black Static", "Dark Moon Digest" and "Aghast". The titles are short and snappy, related to Gothic or gore themes. The words "Black" and "Darkness" are effective, as these are the scariest times to film as audiences's find it un-nerving not being able to see around corners, as well as feeling a sense of vulnerability. "Splatter", "Gore", "Scream" and "Blood" are graphic words which describe what the magazine will be about and will let audience's know if it will be their type of read.
Some different horror film titles I find effective are "It Follows" giving a vulnerable atmosphere, "Scream" which is a simple snappy word but gives off a feeling of fear and terror, "Don't Look Now" which shows the audience that the terror can't get any worse, "The Orphanage" which is a place where children are vulnerable, "The Others" which seem different to normal reality, but the title still remains un-clear and mysterious.
Some titles I have thought of for my film are "At the End of the Phone Call", "Her", "The One," "Listen Don't Speak", "We Will Never Forget" etc.
Horror titles in general give off a disturbing un-realistic view on things, and very often they are linked to psycological or gore themes which different people find disturbing. This could be through clowns, ghosts or slasher themes.
Some different horror film titles I find effective are "It Follows" giving a vulnerable atmosphere, "Scream" which is a simple snappy word but gives off a feeling of fear and terror, "Don't Look Now" which shows the audience that the terror can't get any worse, "The Orphanage" which is a place where children are vulnerable, "The Others" which seem different to normal reality, but the title still remains un-clear and mysterious.
Some titles I have thought of for my film are "At the End of the Phone Call", "Her", "The One," "Listen Don't Speak", "We Will Never Forget" etc.
Horror titles in general give off a disturbing un-realistic view on things, and very often they are linked to psycological or gore themes which different people find disturbing. This could be through clowns, ghosts or slasher themes.
Saturday, 15 October 2016
Analysing modern horror trailers set in isolated locations
Cabin in the Woods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsIilFNNmkY
The trailer starts off with a positive, naturalistic normal vibe. All the characters seem positive and happy like a normal movie. When they are in the vehicle driving to their destination, their GPS says that it is "Unworthy of global positioning" which seems fun at first, before they realise it's no joke. There are many cuts at the start of the trailer showing different angles/objects establishing the area and the characters in a quick paced fashion. This is also effective from the up-beat rock music in the background, referring to the young age group. We see the vehicle driving into the woods with very high trees, and we immediately get an un-nerved feeling as the audience watching.
When they arrive at the abandoned site, it gives off a creepy atmosphere as they are vulnerable as they don't know where the are. The fade to black transitions also make these cuts seem like a faded memory. The wide shot of the cabin is effective, as it looks un-nerving due to the location in the woods and how it looks run down. The quick cuts matching in time with sharp ghostly sounds add to the creepy atmosphere.
The mise-en-scene is effective in the way the character's facial expressions are shown through close-ups and mug shots. This demonstrates their fear and establishes their personalities. Towards the end of the trailer, the cuts get faster, showing desperation and panic. This is also shown from the music in the background building up. These cuts consist of the creatures that are causing the damage in the film, facial expressions of the characters, actions the characters are making and showing the audience the different locations in the vehicle, different rooms in the cabin or the woods. This trailer works well due to the establishing shots, appropriate pauses and how the tension crescendos towards the end through the quick cuts and how the music builds up.
In this film/trailer the characters are archetype stock characters in a typical teenage movie. These characters include the rebel, the explorer, the caregiver, the hero etc.
The Forest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hW8hUcXR-A
The establishing shot is a wide shot of a nice house with a voice over. It then cuts to shots inside the house, as well as some flashbacks and the woman talking in the voice over. When the sister looks inside the tent then back out, a girl screaming in her face is un-expectedly there and makes the audience jump, which is also helped by the build up of music causing tension and fear. After that is an establishing shot of the 'suicide forest', giving an un-nerving atmosphere to the audience. Titles throughout this trailer are effective, as the background looks like a forest with fog, giving a blurred vision of what inside the forest looks like. The non-diegetic sound throughout is also effective, as it is a creepy/eerie whisper that is repeated throughout making the audience feel very un-comfortable. There are different angles and shot types of the forest to make it seem as scary as possible, through birds eye shots, pans and wide shots. Night-time shots are also effective as your vision is compared.
This trailer has little details throughout which are very effective, such as pauses, sudden sounds such as leaves crunching on the ground, a person behind the shower door etc. These shots give the audience adrenaline, because they can see what is going to happen compared to the character in the film who seems vulnerable. Shots of the dead bodies/spirits show the audience a taster of what the film will include and how scary it will be with lots of tension.
Frozen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiUNsDVjCbo
This trailer starts off with an establishing shot of ski slopes on snowy mountains. It also introduces the characters a bit. The text on screen is effective, as they are real facts about skiing and snow boarding, eg. "30 million skiers and snowboarders in the US..."
The chair lift creaks and angles of the lift as well as the darkness give an un-settling feel, and the audience know something is going to go wrong. The non-diegetic sound is effective when all the lights turn off. The crashes emphasise this and makes it even more un-believable. The shots of the character's faces freezing as well as the chair lift breaking bring huge tension to the audience as well as true fear for these people. A very effective shot is a point of view shot looking down as if you are the person jumping from the lift. This makes the audience cringe and terrified. This trailer is effective as it only has a few characters in the movie making the isolation as realistic as possible. It is also the type of film to put people off skiing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsIilFNNmkY
The trailer starts off with a positive, naturalistic normal vibe. All the characters seem positive and happy like a normal movie. When they are in the vehicle driving to their destination, their GPS says that it is "Unworthy of global positioning" which seems fun at first, before they realise it's no joke. There are many cuts at the start of the trailer showing different angles/objects establishing the area and the characters in a quick paced fashion. This is also effective from the up-beat rock music in the background, referring to the young age group. We see the vehicle driving into the woods with very high trees, and we immediately get an un-nerved feeling as the audience watching.
When they arrive at the abandoned site, it gives off a creepy atmosphere as they are vulnerable as they don't know where the are. The fade to black transitions also make these cuts seem like a faded memory. The wide shot of the cabin is effective, as it looks un-nerving due to the location in the woods and how it looks run down. The quick cuts matching in time with sharp ghostly sounds add to the creepy atmosphere.
The mise-en-scene is effective in the way the character's facial expressions are shown through close-ups and mug shots. This demonstrates their fear and establishes their personalities. Towards the end of the trailer, the cuts get faster, showing desperation and panic. This is also shown from the music in the background building up. These cuts consist of the creatures that are causing the damage in the film, facial expressions of the characters, actions the characters are making and showing the audience the different locations in the vehicle, different rooms in the cabin or the woods. This trailer works well due to the establishing shots, appropriate pauses and how the tension crescendos towards the end through the quick cuts and how the music builds up.
In this film/trailer the characters are archetype stock characters in a typical teenage movie. These characters include the rebel, the explorer, the caregiver, the hero etc.
The Forest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hW8hUcXR-A
The establishing shot is a wide shot of a nice house with a voice over. It then cuts to shots inside the house, as well as some flashbacks and the woman talking in the voice over. When the sister looks inside the tent then back out, a girl screaming in her face is un-expectedly there and makes the audience jump, which is also helped by the build up of music causing tension and fear. After that is an establishing shot of the 'suicide forest', giving an un-nerving atmosphere to the audience. Titles throughout this trailer are effective, as the background looks like a forest with fog, giving a blurred vision of what inside the forest looks like. The non-diegetic sound throughout is also effective, as it is a creepy/eerie whisper that is repeated throughout making the audience feel very un-comfortable. There are different angles and shot types of the forest to make it seem as scary as possible, through birds eye shots, pans and wide shots. Night-time shots are also effective as your vision is compared.
This trailer has little details throughout which are very effective, such as pauses, sudden sounds such as leaves crunching on the ground, a person behind the shower door etc. These shots give the audience adrenaline, because they can see what is going to happen compared to the character in the film who seems vulnerable. Shots of the dead bodies/spirits show the audience a taster of what the film will include and how scary it will be with lots of tension.
Frozen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiUNsDVjCbo
This trailer starts off with an establishing shot of ski slopes on snowy mountains. It also introduces the characters a bit. The text on screen is effective, as they are real facts about skiing and snow boarding, eg. "30 million skiers and snowboarders in the US..."
The chair lift creaks and angles of the lift as well as the darkness give an un-settling feel, and the audience know something is going to go wrong. The non-diegetic sound is effective when all the lights turn off. The crashes emphasise this and makes it even more un-believable. The shots of the character's faces freezing as well as the chair lift breaking bring huge tension to the audience as well as true fear for these people. A very effective shot is a point of view shot looking down as if you are the person jumping from the lift. This makes the audience cringe and terrified. This trailer is effective as it only has a few characters in the movie making the isolation as realistic as possible. It is also the type of film to put people off skiing.
Thursday, 13 October 2016
British Horror films
Hammer Horror Films 1950's:
Cult Horrors:
Wickerman- 1973: Someone visits a small Scottish Island to investigate the report of a missing child.
Witchfinder General- 1968: A horrific tale of evil set during the English Civil War.
Contemporary:
Byzantium- 2013: A modern twist on a vampire horror incorporating romance and action.
Eden Lake-2008: A couple go away for a weekend by a lake where they meet a gang who cause serious injury.
Dog Soilders- 2002: a small squad of British soilders encounter a bloody massacre whilst on a nighttime training mission in the Scottish Highlands.
28 Days Later- 2002: A group of misguided animal rights activists free a caged chimp infected with a virus from a medical research lab.
The Children- 2008: A film where children turn against their parents and do strange things, such as mis-behaving and injuring people. They dominate over the adults, changing the stereotype in the media where children are seen as vulnerable and innocent.
The Hole- 2009: Some teenagers find a hole in a basement where a series of horrific events take place. Inside the hole are where the teenagers biggest fears are, eg. clowns.
The Descent-2005: A group of women visit North Carolina to investigate caves. When they're in the cave they realize they're not alone.
Woman In Black- 2012: A film following on from the theatre production. The woman in black is a supernatural ghost who lives inside a haunted house and some horrible events happen to the man staying in the house.
Low Budget films:
Kill List- 2011: Some dark events take place from a contract killer and his business partner as they carry out a new assignment.
Cherry Tree Lane- 2010: Horrific events take place in a couples home when someone knocks on their door.
Typically British horrors have low budgets and are set on location. They don't rely on big Hollywood names to promote their film and they don't depend on much CGI or graphics to make a statement. The majority of these films have co- productions where three or four production companies join to create the film, usually because they aren't big enough to create these on their own. In Kill List the two companies which joined were Rook Films and Warp X. In Cherry Tree Lane companies Limelight and Steel Mill Pictures joined.
Cult Horrors:
Wickerman- 1973: Someone visits a small Scottish Island to investigate the report of a missing child.
Witchfinder General- 1968: A horrific tale of evil set during the English Civil War.
Contemporary:
Byzantium- 2013: A modern twist on a vampire horror incorporating romance and action.
Eden Lake-2008: A couple go away for a weekend by a lake where they meet a gang who cause serious injury.
Dog Soilders- 2002: a small squad of British soilders encounter a bloody massacre whilst on a nighttime training mission in the Scottish Highlands.
28 Days Later- 2002: A group of misguided animal rights activists free a caged chimp infected with a virus from a medical research lab.
The Children- 2008: A film where children turn against their parents and do strange things, such as mis-behaving and injuring people. They dominate over the adults, changing the stereotype in the media where children are seen as vulnerable and innocent.
The Hole- 2009: Some teenagers find a hole in a basement where a series of horrific events take place. Inside the hole are where the teenagers biggest fears are, eg. clowns.
The Descent-2005: A group of women visit North Carolina to investigate caves. When they're in the cave they realize they're not alone.
Woman In Black- 2012: A film following on from the theatre production. The woman in black is a supernatural ghost who lives inside a haunted house and some horrible events happen to the man staying in the house.
Low Budget films:
Kill List- 2011: Some dark events take place from a contract killer and his business partner as they carry out a new assignment.
Cherry Tree Lane- 2010: Horrific events take place in a couples home when someone knocks on their door.
Typically British horrors have low budgets and are set on location. They don't rely on big Hollywood names to promote their film and they don't depend on much CGI or graphics to make a statement. The majority of these films have co- productions where three or four production companies join to create the film, usually because they aren't big enough to create these on their own. In Kill List the two companies which joined were Rook Films and Warp X. In Cherry Tree Lane companies Limelight and Steel Mill Pictures joined.
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
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