Common conventions of psychological horror films:
•Flashbacks.
This is evident in a variety of psychological horror movies. For example in the
film ‘The Uninvited’ where the main character sees flashbacks of dead people. We
will use flashbacks in our product to show our main character has experienced
something bad in the past, which leads her to be a serial killer with a pseudo
identity.
•Killer
looks normal. No signs of a bad psychological state. This is evident in the
horror film ‘Split’ by Blumhouse Productions. The main character looks normal
when he takes the girls into his car but then throughout the movie we can see that
he has multiple identities. In our product, our main character will look normal
too. For example, I plan to have a scene with her waking up, and eating
breakfast like a normal person, whilst reading the newspaper.
·
Close ups to
show the emotions on the characters faces. For example in the films ‘Case 39’
and ‘Split’ there are a lot of close ups on the villain’s faces to show that
they are the bad characters. We can use this in our film to show our character is
not mentally stable.
•Psychological
horror focuses on everyday life. This is shown in the movie ‘Case 39’ where the
main protagonist is a case worker and when she adopts a devil child she still
has t try and carry on with her normal life. This creates verisimilitude, which
means our target audience would get more scared easily, especially to those who
have a similar life style to our character Spencer. This is the aim of horror
films.
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Editing:
Jump cuts and continuity cuts to show everyday life and to connote a complex
character (such as in Split). We can use this in our film as we can portray our
character to be normal when in fact her other identity is a killer.
•Setting:
reality. Again this creates verisimilitude. For example, the two main settings
in our horror film is the home and school. An example from a real media text
would be from the film ‘Orphan’ where it is based in the home, school and park.
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Contrapuntal
sounds – sounds that don’t match the screen, for example when there is happy music
playing when someone is dying. Again an example would be from the ‘Orphan’
trailer, where there is music playing over a murder case.
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