Genre: Horror

Horror is usually regarded as one of the most interesting topics to choose when deciding between the type of movie someone wants to watch. It uses people's emotions and greatest fears in order to create an impact in the cinema world. These movies are very popular in October as it is mainly advertised here due to Halloween. Since horror movies are oftentimes seen as a nice cash grab for companies there are a variety of movies to always see.

Friday the 13th is a classic horror movie that takes place at the infamous Camp Crystal Lake. Some counselors who are not deterred from the camp after its history of murder decide to have some fun. While on their way to the camp superstitious locals warn them against going, but unfortunately, the counselors ignore their warnings and end up paying the price. One by one the characters are killed off in unique ways which build onto the suspense and mystery of the killer. The camp gives off the impression of being alone in the woods with no help to be found miles away and loud music is accompanied with the kills to emphasize their scare factor. The color of the movie os mainly consists of pink in order to demonstrate the feminism of the woman and red to signify the ever imposing force and power of the killer.

The Shining is about a family that go to a hotel where Jack Torrance becomes the winter caretaker. They do this because Jack is having trouble trying to come up with a story and is trying to go to a nice isolated place to think things over. He brings both his wife and son, who is having psychic premonitions. As time passes Jack's writing seems to be going nowhere his son starts to get disturbing images. Jack slowly starts losing his mind and starts to discover the hotel's dark secrets and his true role in the hotel. The Shining uses many different camera angle shots in order to convey the hotel as an endless building and a living being. The sound in the movie helps create suspense throughout its entirety and also helps to create a creepy atmosphere.

Other Horror Movies to consider:

Alien

The Thing

Halloween

IT

The Invisible Man

US

Introduction

 Hello, my name is Balthazar and I am creating this blog for a class called Aice Mediastudies in which I shall be posting some of the assignments we do.