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These short horror films are about five to ten minutes long with a plot that stays the same throughout the whole film.
Both films consist of similar elements and different horror elements that are used to create fear throughout the audience.
The elements in these films that are used to create horror consist of great camera movements/angles, lighting, - sound, unique plots, and the use of blood.️ These short films use a unique variety of actions that are brought along the film to create this fear by using blood and little to no movement in the characters. First of all, these horror stories use similar elements to create horror consisting of background
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Since Abe is a robot, he thinks that everyone else is a robot as well, this makes him think he has to "fix" other people when he does not feel loved. He attempts to "fix" her, but it cuts to the outside of the curtains shortly before blood is splattered all over the frosted curtains. While watching the short film "Curve" the girl does not seem to have any blood on her at the start of the film (1:53). Although further on into the video, you can notice blood start to appear on her hands and shoes overtime (3:57).
For instance, this can maybe be from her trying to climb up the curve while sliding back down and scraping her hand. Using the features of blood, that is how these short stories create horror and tension throughout the audience.
Secondly, both these horror films have completely
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For example, (3:00) in this scene where Abe picks up the scalpel and walks up to her like he is about to slash her but instead slashes the harmless butterfly. While both have a completely different plot, both short horror's use similar features and elements to create horror. Lastly, these short horror films both use a lot of different camera movements and different scenes to help create fear in the audience.
At the start of "Abe," there are camera movement scenes that allow us to get a better view of the outside of the curtains. Not only is it dark around the curtains but you can also see chains dangling. With this evidence, I think the author could be trying to tell us that she is in a factory or warehouse and was maybe kidnapped by the robot, or that girl was the robot's old owner and did not love Abe anymore. At the start of "curve," there are multiple scenes of water, almost like waves crashing (0:07). It then cuts to the girl that is sitting on the curve (0:15). For instance, I think this could be trying to show us that she was washed up there and ended up on the curve with no other escape but below. These short films use a large variety of camera angles/movements to create scary scenes and create horror while
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The visual and aural flavor of genre movies is dictated by the unique combination of formal elements. The films tackled in this analysis are Kirk Jones’ Nanny McPhee (2005) and Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). Nanny McPhee is a comedic fantasy that takes upon the story of Mr. Brown, a widower, with untameable seven children and a family estate at risk if he does not remarry. Whereas, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a horror fantasy that showcases the story of Dracula’s attempt to reunite with his everlasting love all the while impeded by suitors and vampire hunters. So while both occupy the fantasy genre, their approaches to creating a light versus dark atmosphere is very much contingent upon manipulating formal elements.
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Fear plays a big part in everyone’s lives. While not everyone will admit it, everyone is scared of something. There is a lot that isn’t known about the world and everything in it. For some this is a tool that can be used to develop horror in literature as well as many other things. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
While horror is often thought of as the release of terror, Jones challenges this notion by utilizing disgust in his writing to prolong the feeling of terror. The novel often and vividly describes acts of violence, from the horrific death of animals (the hunting scene and Harley) to the gory killings during the sweat lodge massacre. The reader may find it extremely unpleasant since these descriptions frequently include sensory images, such as the sound of flesh tearing or the smell of blood and rot. Once Lewis believes it is Shaney who is impersonated by Elk Head Woman and takes action, there is a passage that is arguably the best example of Jones’ use of disgust in his novel: An instant after her neck breaks, the top of her head scalps off and her forehead tilts loosely down into the rear wheel, the spokes shearing skull as easy as anything, carving down into the pulpy-warm outside of her brain.
The first hour particularly does not look like a horror film at all, but rather like an indifferent social film. Ηοwever, the actual and sole purpose of the rest of the film is just to bring the spectator into a state of utter unpreparedness for the grotesque incidents that occur in its last part, that are as terrifying and perverse, as one would expect from the onerous fantasies of both Murakami and Miike. 1. Ringu (Hideo Nakata,