Horror film example clips - BELLUM

This is an extract from the movie 'the eye', which shows how silence in a horror film can be just as if not even more effective than too much narrative and screenplay. It shows the simplicity in a scene using a very small amount of music in the scene, it shows how much tension is built up by the silence as you are waiting for the point in which you'll jump and be shocked. The screenplay is effective in how it makes us wait for what is to come...


 Often in movies when the villain is a zombie or gory character, they place a man in the role, rather than a female which plays the ghost or the possessed character. Here is a scene from Nightmare on elm street, where a creepy burnt man is after another male, ready to kill with his blade like fingers.

  
Here we see an animal (Shark), which isn't after one specific person or small group of people like we usually see in movies, but is just ready to attack all. This builds suspense effectively for the audience as it is less predictable and explicitly portrays the fight and strength of man vs animal.

 
 Here we see a female being portrayed as the villain, the opposite of exactly what she should be, a demonic, scary, horrifying beings whom used to be, now back here for revenge.

location background - BELLUM

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Here are some images of locations which are close to my house, the Epsom/ Banstead area which i think is appropriate for the genre of my film. I think that these images are somewhat effective in portraying the genre of my film without words, its just simple images for you to think about what the situation may be, what kind of villain may be involved whether that be a zombie, ghost, murderer, axe-man, deceased girl/woman (these have a tendency to be used in films as the female character is usually the innocent, elegant one, so to use a woman contradicts the stereotype) and/ or animals.