Halloween analysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFILFAaE39U

Genre that is established – Horror

How the genre is established

Very Dark Opening

Credits in the back ground – Diegetic sound

Halloween Night

Sense of house being watched

Teenagers talking – Diegetic sound

Looking threw window

Eerie sound as light in bedroom turns off – Non Diegetic

Subject opens house and turns the lights on

Subject picks up and knife and we get a glimpse of the outfit that is a clowns outfit.

Subject walks up the stairs and see his mask on the floor, subject places a mask on his face

Camera edit shows just 2 eye holes for the reminder of the scene

Subject walks into sisters bedroom and see that’s she is undress and possibly participated in sexual activities with her boyfriend.

Subject approaches his sister from behind and is then noticed

Non digetic sound of shrieking music as the subject begins to stab his sister repeatedly

Subject turns head to look at the knife as he carries on stabbing his sister

After the subjects sister is dead he walks out of the room and approaches the front door and steps out side to see his mum and dad approach the front garden.

The audience find out that two young teenagers are home alone on the night of Halloween, the house looks like it is being watched as the camera snoops round the outside of the house and finally enters the house. The use of the one continuous shot threw the whole opening scene is very rare but it adds to the depth and drama and you do not see the killer but you feel as if you are the person inside the killers mind seeing what he sees. We later see the subject stab his sister repeatedly with a kitchen knife, which he picked dup earlier in the scene. He does not just stab her once but about 10 times, this helps create the feel of horror as lots of blood and gore is included in just the first 2 minuets of the film.