Return To House On Haunted Hill (Analysis 1 Horror)

Return To House On Haunted Hill

Below is how the film cover looks like for this film. This cover has been created well and can be recognised as a horror film. The way they have done this is by applying images in a way to repersent fear. As you can see there is a hand in the center which has been made out off different people and scenes in the film. But she hand is in a dark gloomy colour and has some liquid dripping off the tips of the fingers. Straight away you know this is blood because of the background being in a red colour. Also the title is placed in the center which has been done in a bold blocked letters. But the size of the fone is different for each word. This has been done to make some words such as house, haunted, hill to stand ouch which gives the viewers a small intro of what the film is about.

In the start of the film, there are some opening credits displayed. These credits are shown in a small writing but in a strong red colour with the black background. When the frame goes to the next credits screen, the text dissolves away, allowing the next credits to be seen. After the credits some pictures come up which are disturbing and horrific. Which then follows off with more credits and other images. All this happens within two and a half minutes which is long for the opening credits. And in this time they have already defined what sort of genre the film is. The way they have done this is by choosing the colour as red an black for the credits which would represent darkness and danger, then when the images are displayed, it gives a shock to the audience which shows them a little intro of what the films about. And since the images were disturbing and looks like the woman is terrified and the other image with the scissors and blood shows that someone has been attacked. Then the film must be a horror.

At the same there there is some music playing which is loud and high pitched with some screaming in it. And as it goes on, the music goes louder. This makes the audience extremely tensed and terrified.

When the first scene of the films comes up, there is a shot where a empty bedroom is shown but has been edited as in a black and white theme to add the creepy effect. Then the colour goes back to normal and a alarm is displayed to show what time it is. It says five which must be in the morning because the woman walks in after having her shower and dresses up.

As you can see within the first three minutes, the film has shown that it is a horror really strong. And the techniques used are good and effective. But the only problem was that the credits were long which would distract the audience. But still in the credits they showed some images that gave a intro on what the film is about. Therefore over all these techniques would be useful if i was to use if i was to use it on my film with a horror genre.