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The document discusses several horror films including Jaws, The Uninvited, Orphan, Apollo 18, Psycho, Eyes Without a Face, and Halloween 2. It provides plots for each film and analyzes how they meet conventions of the horror genre, such as including vulnerable characters, supernatural elements, disturbing imagery, and building tension and suspense through camera techniques.

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By Ursula and Carolle Mafuta
What is Horror Horror films  are unsettling movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust  from viewers. deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden worst fears,
Horror Subgenres Supernatural - The rules of the normal world don't apply; ghosts, demons, vampires, werewolves, the occult etc. Comedy - horror film in which the usual dark themes are treated with a humorous approach. Noir - Dark, cynical, paranoid themes of corruption, alienation, lust, obsession, violence, revenge and the difficulty of finding redemption in a far from perfect world.
How Horror has changed over the years reading ghost stories telling scary tales around the campfire 1930 – 1940 Classic Creations - vampires, werewolves and monsters 1950 – 1960 Sci-Fi Horrors and the House of Hammer - Most of these films where low-budget black-and-white B-movies 1970 – 1980 The Birth of the Slasher -
Directed By: Steven Speilberg Distributed By: Universal Pictures Release Date: July ,1975 Jaws (1975) Ursula
When a young woman goes swimming in the sea after a late night beach party she is attacked an unknown creature. The police chief notifies the young lady missing, the medical examiner examines the ladies remains and comes to a conclusion that it was a shark attack. The creature again attacks when there is a busy day at the sea and a boy is killed , the police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop the shark. Plot
How Jaws Meets Horror Conventions
Still Shots
The Uninvited Directed By: Charles and Thomas Guard Distributed By: DreamWorks Release Date: January 30 th , 2009 Ursula
After the death of her ill mother in a fire, the young teenager Anna tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental institution for treatment. Ten months later, Anna still cannot remember what had happened on the night her mother died. Her psychiatric Dr. Silberling, however, discharges her telling that she has resolved her issues. Her father and successful writer, Steven, brings her back home in an isolated mansion nearby the coast. Anna finds that her mother's former nurse, Rachel Summers, is her stepmother now. Anna meets her beloved sister, Alex, swimming in the sea. She discovers that Steven has not delivered the letters and CDs that Alex had sent to her. As time moves on, Anna is haunted by ghosts and she believes that Rachel killed her mother. Alex and Anna decide to look for evidences to prove that Rachel is the murderer and Anna discovers the truth  Plot
How The Uninvited Meets Horror Conventions Relates to horror because in most horror films audiences believe something then find out the truth e.g. the killer. Horrors usually have vulnerable people being haunted or killed
Still Shots
Orphan Directed By: Jaume Collet-Serra Distributed By: Warner Bros- US Optimum Releasing -UK Studio Canal-France Release Date : July 24 th ,2009 Ursula
Plot Kate and John Coleman are rebuilding their troubled marriage. Kate had a drinking problem, but is in therapy and is doing well. She has been sober for one year. The couple decides to adopt a child. When they meet the nine-year-old Russian girl, Esther, at the St. Marina Orphanage, they immediately fall in love with the well-educated orphan. Their young son, Daniel, is hostile to his new sister; but their deaf-mute daughter, little Max, is enchanted with her - at first. Eventually, Kate begins to feel that Esther is manipulative and possibly even psychologically disturbed. John refuses to listen to his wife's misgivings, and the wounds in their marriage reopen. Kate calls Sister Abigail at the orphanage, and the nun informs her that Esther has a troubled and mysterious history. Kate delves further into Esther's past and discovers she is not at all who she pretends to be.
How The Uninvited Meets Horror Conventions
Still Shots
Directed By: Gonzalo Lopez Gallego Distributed By: Dimension Films Release Dates: September 2 nd , 2011 Ursula
Plot Apollo 18  is a found footage-style film set in December 1974, about a post-Apollo 17 mission to the Moon that takes on a premise of why NASA discontinued the Apollo moon missions. The plot involves a government cover up of the Apollo 18 mission after parasitic life forms on the Moon discovered the crew and began to attack them. Much of the back-story remains unknown; however, the movie posters in English indicate the Russian KGB role in Soviet lunar conspiracy and the Russian movie posters show inscriptions in English suggesting an American government cover up in lunar conspiracy. In the trailer, an American astronaut finds a dead cosmonaut and a Soviet LK Lander on the lunar surface
How The Apollo 18 meets conventions of Horror
1960 Psycho Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock Distributed company: paramount Pictures Universal pictures Release date: June 16, 1960 Carolle
Plot of film In a spur of the moment decision, Marion Crane decides to leave Phoenix with the $40,000 her boss entrusted to her to deposit at the bank. She's headed to her boyfriend Sam in Fairvale, California and the money will finally let them start their life together. After having spent a night in her car, she can't quite make all the way and spends her second night at the Bates Motel. There she meets Norman Bates, a shy and withdrawn young man who seems to be dominated by his mother. They chat for a while and as a result she decides to go back to Phoenix and return the money. She's still going to spend the night at the motel and decides to have a shower before going to bed. A week later Marion's sister arrives at Sam's store in Fairvale to tell him Marion has disappeared. Together with a private detective, Milton Arbogast, they begin searching the area and eventually come across the Bates Motel .
How it meets convention of horror Film such as ‘psycho’ capture the helplessness of people, catching them when they are most vulnerable. This is normally happen to women in horror movie The weapon are household objects
Knife Various angles Stabbing sounds scream that kill close-ups face Music Build suspension and intensive Two shot Equality Mid-shot Mystical smile
1960s Title: Eyes Without a Face ( les yeux sans visage ) Director: Georges Franju Distributing company: Lopert Picture Release: 2 March 1960/ 3 May 1960/ 24 October 1962 (USA) Carolle
Plot of film Christiane lives hidden from the world, shrouded by a white featureless mask that hides her horribly disfigured face. Her father is guilt-ridden plastic surgeon, Dr. Genessier. With the help of his assistant Louise, they lure young women in and surgically remove their faces in hope of successfully grafting the skin to his daughter. But one failed graft after another leaves a pile of bodies and little hope. Dr. Genessier keeps several dogs, as well as white doves in wrought-iron cages which he uses for experiments. And in the same wing of the house is his surgical room, where he kills women and experiments on his daughter.
How it meets convention of horror Masks - To disguise themselves from people Obsession - A father who will do anything to help his daughter Surgeon - Mostly use in horror movies because of the gore and blood Losing face Mystery and terrifying
close up shot to show general reactions or emotion Mid-shot Removing the face - disturbing Full shot Build tension Have a big view of everything
1980s Title: Halloween 2 Directed by Rick Rosenthal John Carpenter (Additional scenes) Distributing company: Universal Pictures Released date: October 30, 1981 (1981-10-30) Running time: 92 minutes Country: United states Carolle
Plot of film It's October 31, 1978 - Halloween - and Haddonfield is awakening to the horror that Michael Myers (who escaped from a mental institution) has returned to the sleepy little town, murdered three teenage students and attempted to murder student, Laurie Strode before being shot by Dr. Loomis only to walk away (events from "Halloween"). Laurie is taken to the Haddonfield Clinic to get her injuries doctored and to rest from the shock but she starts to question about why is Michael after her? She also starts to fall in love with Jimmy, a driver at the clinic. Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis and the Haddonfield police search the town looking for Michael who, upon hearing that Laurie is still alive, makes his way to the clinic and starts to murder the small clinic's staff in an attempt to get to Laurie. Nurse Marion arrives and gives Loomis the key answer to Michael's madness but is also there to order him back to Smith's Grove (to stop the officials looking bad.) Can Loomis find Michael and stop him from succeeding in his plans by killing Laurie? 
How it meet convention of horror In this movie their a mentally ill person Targets young beautiful female mainly Background music: clock sound Dark Set: Hospital Revenge The weapon: knives Mask
Masks To disguise themselves Mid-shot High angle powerful Weapons are use such as bloody knives, guns and household objects Full shot Vulnerable young nurse
2002 Title: The Ring Directed by Gore Verbinski Distributing company: DreamWorks Pictures Release Date: October 18, 2002 Running time: 115 minutes Carolle
Plot Two teenagers, Masami (Hitomi Sato) and Tomoko (Yuko Takeuchi) talk about a videotape recorded by a boy in Izu which is fabled to bear a curse that kills the viewer seven days after watching. Tomoko then reveals that a week ago, she and three of her friends watched a weird tape and received a call after watching it. Some days later, Reiko Asakawa (Nanako Matsushima), a reporter investigating the popularity of the video curse among teenagers, discovers that her niece, Tomoko and her three other friends mysteriously died at the same time on the same night with their faces twisted in a rictus of fear. She also discovers that Masami, the girl who was with Tomoko when she died, became insane and is now in a mental hospital With only a day left, Reiko and Ryuji discover that Shizuko's lost daughter, Sadako Yamamura, must have made the videotape. Determined, the two go back to Izu with the assumption that Sadako is dead and it was her vengeful spirit that killed the teenagers. The duo then uncover a well under Cabin B4 and realize, through a vision, that Sadako's father killed her and threw her into the well. They try to empty the well and find Sadako's body in an attempt to appease her spirit. Reiko finds Sadako's body. When nothing happens to her, they believe that the curse is broken.
How it meets convention of horror Mystery- young girl dead spirit The dark setting the use of children's Blood Ghost spirit Tape - Kills everyone within 7 days
*   Long shot * Her slow crawl from inside a well and out of your TV screen  * Close up shot Build tension * effects- making blurry Long shot * Isolation * The use of children
Reference http://goregirl.wordpress.com/page/49/?pages-list http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=6793 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring_(2002_film) http://alevelpsychology.co.uk/news/interesting/what-makes-a-scary-horror-movie.html http://www.angelfire.com/darkside/realmofhorror/history.htm http://www.fictionfactor.com/articles/hsubgenres.html

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  • 1. By Ursula and Carolle Mafuta
  • 2. What is Horror Horror films  are unsettling movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust  from viewers. deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden worst fears,
  • 3. Horror Subgenres Supernatural - The rules of the normal world don't apply; ghosts, demons, vampires, werewolves, the occult etc. Comedy - horror film in which the usual dark themes are treated with a humorous approach. Noir - Dark, cynical, paranoid themes of corruption, alienation, lust, obsession, violence, revenge and the difficulty of finding redemption in a far from perfect world.
  • 4. How Horror has changed over the years reading ghost stories telling scary tales around the campfire 1930 – 1940 Classic Creations - vampires, werewolves and monsters 1950 – 1960 Sci-Fi Horrors and the House of Hammer - Most of these films where low-budget black-and-white B-movies 1970 – 1980 The Birth of the Slasher -
  • 5. Directed By: Steven Speilberg Distributed By: Universal Pictures Release Date: July ,1975 Jaws (1975) Ursula
  • 6. When a young woman goes swimming in the sea after a late night beach party she is attacked an unknown creature. The police chief notifies the young lady missing, the medical examiner examines the ladies remains and comes to a conclusion that it was a shark attack. The creature again attacks when there is a busy day at the sea and a boy is killed , the police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop the shark. Plot
  • 7. How Jaws Meets Horror Conventions
  • 9. The Uninvited Directed By: Charles and Thomas Guard Distributed By: DreamWorks Release Date: January 30 th , 2009 Ursula
  • 10. After the death of her ill mother in a fire, the young teenager Anna tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental institution for treatment. Ten months later, Anna still cannot remember what had happened on the night her mother died. Her psychiatric Dr. Silberling, however, discharges her telling that she has resolved her issues. Her father and successful writer, Steven, brings her back home in an isolated mansion nearby the coast. Anna finds that her mother's former nurse, Rachel Summers, is her stepmother now. Anna meets her beloved sister, Alex, swimming in the sea. She discovers that Steven has not delivered the letters and CDs that Alex had sent to her. As time moves on, Anna is haunted by ghosts and she believes that Rachel killed her mother. Alex and Anna decide to look for evidences to prove that Rachel is the murderer and Anna discovers the truth  Plot
  • 11. How The Uninvited Meets Horror Conventions Relates to horror because in most horror films audiences believe something then find out the truth e.g. the killer. Horrors usually have vulnerable people being haunted or killed
  • 13. Orphan Directed By: Jaume Collet-Serra Distributed By: Warner Bros- US Optimum Releasing -UK Studio Canal-France Release Date : July 24 th ,2009 Ursula
  • 14. Plot Kate and John Coleman are rebuilding their troubled marriage. Kate had a drinking problem, but is in therapy and is doing well. She has been sober for one year. The couple decides to adopt a child. When they meet the nine-year-old Russian girl, Esther, at the St. Marina Orphanage, they immediately fall in love with the well-educated orphan. Their young son, Daniel, is hostile to his new sister; but their deaf-mute daughter, little Max, is enchanted with her - at first. Eventually, Kate begins to feel that Esther is manipulative and possibly even psychologically disturbed. John refuses to listen to his wife's misgivings, and the wounds in their marriage reopen. Kate calls Sister Abigail at the orphanage, and the nun informs her that Esther has a troubled and mysterious history. Kate delves further into Esther's past and discovers she is not at all who she pretends to be.
  • 15. How The Uninvited Meets Horror Conventions
  • 17. Directed By: Gonzalo Lopez Gallego Distributed By: Dimension Films Release Dates: September 2 nd , 2011 Ursula
  • 18. Plot Apollo 18  is a found footage-style film set in December 1974, about a post-Apollo 17 mission to the Moon that takes on a premise of why NASA discontinued the Apollo moon missions. The plot involves a government cover up of the Apollo 18 mission after parasitic life forms on the Moon discovered the crew and began to attack them. Much of the back-story remains unknown; however, the movie posters in English indicate the Russian KGB role in Soviet lunar conspiracy and the Russian movie posters show inscriptions in English suggesting an American government cover up in lunar conspiracy. In the trailer, an American astronaut finds a dead cosmonaut and a Soviet LK Lander on the lunar surface
  • 19. How The Apollo 18 meets conventions of Horror
  • 20. 1960 Psycho Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock Distributed company: paramount Pictures Universal pictures Release date: June 16, 1960 Carolle
  • 21. Plot of film In a spur of the moment decision, Marion Crane decides to leave Phoenix with the $40,000 her boss entrusted to her to deposit at the bank. She's headed to her boyfriend Sam in Fairvale, California and the money will finally let them start their life together. After having spent a night in her car, she can't quite make all the way and spends her second night at the Bates Motel. There she meets Norman Bates, a shy and withdrawn young man who seems to be dominated by his mother. They chat for a while and as a result she decides to go back to Phoenix and return the money. She's still going to spend the night at the motel and decides to have a shower before going to bed. A week later Marion's sister arrives at Sam's store in Fairvale to tell him Marion has disappeared. Together with a private detective, Milton Arbogast, they begin searching the area and eventually come across the Bates Motel .
  • 22. How it meets convention of horror Film such as ‘psycho’ capture the helplessness of people, catching them when they are most vulnerable. This is normally happen to women in horror movie The weapon are household objects
  • 23. Knife Various angles Stabbing sounds scream that kill close-ups face Music Build suspension and intensive Two shot Equality Mid-shot Mystical smile
  • 24. 1960s Title: Eyes Without a Face ( les yeux sans visage ) Director: Georges Franju Distributing company: Lopert Picture Release: 2 March 1960/ 3 May 1960/ 24 October 1962 (USA) Carolle
  • 25. Plot of film Christiane lives hidden from the world, shrouded by a white featureless mask that hides her horribly disfigured face. Her father is guilt-ridden plastic surgeon, Dr. Genessier. With the help of his assistant Louise, they lure young women in and surgically remove their faces in hope of successfully grafting the skin to his daughter. But one failed graft after another leaves a pile of bodies and little hope. Dr. Genessier keeps several dogs, as well as white doves in wrought-iron cages which he uses for experiments. And in the same wing of the house is his surgical room, where he kills women and experiments on his daughter.
  • 26. How it meets convention of horror Masks - To disguise themselves from people Obsession - A father who will do anything to help his daughter Surgeon - Mostly use in horror movies because of the gore and blood Losing face Mystery and terrifying
  • 27. close up shot to show general reactions or emotion Mid-shot Removing the face - disturbing Full shot Build tension Have a big view of everything
  • 28. 1980s Title: Halloween 2 Directed by Rick Rosenthal John Carpenter (Additional scenes) Distributing company: Universal Pictures Released date: October 30, 1981 (1981-10-30) Running time: 92 minutes Country: United states Carolle
  • 29. Plot of film It's October 31, 1978 - Halloween - and Haddonfield is awakening to the horror that Michael Myers (who escaped from a mental institution) has returned to the sleepy little town, murdered three teenage students and attempted to murder student, Laurie Strode before being shot by Dr. Loomis only to walk away (events from "Halloween"). Laurie is taken to the Haddonfield Clinic to get her injuries doctored and to rest from the shock but she starts to question about why is Michael after her? She also starts to fall in love with Jimmy, a driver at the clinic. Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis and the Haddonfield police search the town looking for Michael who, upon hearing that Laurie is still alive, makes his way to the clinic and starts to murder the small clinic's staff in an attempt to get to Laurie. Nurse Marion arrives and gives Loomis the key answer to Michael's madness but is also there to order him back to Smith's Grove (to stop the officials looking bad.) Can Loomis find Michael and stop him from succeeding in his plans by killing Laurie? 
  • 30. How it meet convention of horror In this movie their a mentally ill person Targets young beautiful female mainly Background music: clock sound Dark Set: Hospital Revenge The weapon: knives Mask
  • 31. Masks To disguise themselves Mid-shot High angle powerful Weapons are use such as bloody knives, guns and household objects Full shot Vulnerable young nurse
  • 32. 2002 Title: The Ring Directed by Gore Verbinski Distributing company: DreamWorks Pictures Release Date: October 18, 2002 Running time: 115 minutes Carolle
  • 33. Plot Two teenagers, Masami (Hitomi Sato) and Tomoko (Yuko Takeuchi) talk about a videotape recorded by a boy in Izu which is fabled to bear a curse that kills the viewer seven days after watching. Tomoko then reveals that a week ago, she and three of her friends watched a weird tape and received a call after watching it. Some days later, Reiko Asakawa (Nanako Matsushima), a reporter investigating the popularity of the video curse among teenagers, discovers that her niece, Tomoko and her three other friends mysteriously died at the same time on the same night with their faces twisted in a rictus of fear. She also discovers that Masami, the girl who was with Tomoko when she died, became insane and is now in a mental hospital With only a day left, Reiko and Ryuji discover that Shizuko's lost daughter, Sadako Yamamura, must have made the videotape. Determined, the two go back to Izu with the assumption that Sadako is dead and it was her vengeful spirit that killed the teenagers. The duo then uncover a well under Cabin B4 and realize, through a vision, that Sadako's father killed her and threw her into the well. They try to empty the well and find Sadako's body in an attempt to appease her spirit. Reiko finds Sadako's body. When nothing happens to her, they believe that the curse is broken.
  • 34. How it meets convention of horror Mystery- young girl dead spirit The dark setting the use of children's Blood Ghost spirit Tape - Kills everyone within 7 days
  • 35. *   Long shot * Her slow crawl from inside a well and out of your TV screen  * Close up shot Build tension * effects- making blurry Long shot * Isolation * The use of children
  • 36. Reference http://goregirl.wordpress.com/page/49/?pages-list http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=6793 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring_(2002_film) http://alevelpsychology.co.uk/news/interesting/what-makes-a-scary-horror-movie.html http://www.angelfire.com/darkside/realmofhorror/history.htm http://www.fictionfactor.com/articles/hsubgenres.html