Comparing Malatesta's Carnival Of Blood, And The Premonition

The museum visit has taken me back to the history of the Holocaust. The historic film footages were good enough in giving a vivid historical background from the days that Hitler came into power. With his Nazi group, the film footages showed the plotted Holocaust which was a ruthless

Ever since the creation of horror there has been more than what meets the surface. Movies in the horror genre require much attention to the details of the film. Whether it be sound, acting, visuals, and the overall foreshadowing of the story. A truly good horror movie utilizes all key aspects of suspense. The 1980s horror movie The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick utilized these aspects very well. This allowed The Shining to be one of the most successful and truly suspenseful horror films of its time.

The original film is eerily presented in black and white and uses mood influencing silences, long pauses, and various sound effects to depict the hallucinations. Furthermore, the angle of the camera is positioned below the actors, which intensifies the feeling of horror. Visually, the film using ‘chiaroscuro lighting’, which is designed to cast shadows and contrast light with dark to dramatically intensify the gloominess of the films context. These film features are necessary because the actual murder, dismembering and disposal of the corpse portrayal is relative tame and largely left up to the viewer to determine what is actually happening. The dismembering in particular largely relies on the viewers memories of the opening scenes where the younger man is preparing a chicken for his dinner by grizzly hacking

One of the ways why cinematography made the film was the lighting. To get the feel, the lighting appeared to be fake shadows that were painted on the set. The fake shadows that were painted on the set gave the lighting appeared to be harsh and sharper to set the mood for the audience. If it weren’t for the painted shadows, the movie wouldn’t have been so successful in the horror genre. Since it was a silent movie, if it weren’t for the shadows, you wouldn’t of seen it as a horror film, but as an original film that was trying to be creative.

The movie begins with a shot of a cemetery of unmarked crosses. From the beginning, the audience is clued in that this isn’t going to be a simple film. Herzog does an outstanding job dragging out the transitions between scenes, whether it be the sun setting on a highway, or fields of corn shaking gently in the breeze, to create a bleak ambiance that carries out throughout the film. It gives time for the audience to analyze the new information they’ve been given to add onto their own judgements. When the audience first gets to view the original crime scene where the bodies of two young men were discarded, only the sound of insects and other nightlife can be heard, creating an unsettling effect that only adds to the gruesome

This movie was mostly based on outside lighting and was dark. All of these movies had low key lighting which relies on shadows, deep blacks and darker tones. The mood of low-key lighting mysterious and dramatic which all of these movies

Critics tend to say it is too lazy and weak when defined as a horror film. Although these assumptions are brought up, there are factors proving otherwise. For instance, when director Robert Zemeckis uses the close up shot to minimize the audience's peripheral vision, it makes the scene more suspicious. For example, when Claire figures out that Norman does not really call the police, she looks around to discover where

Much like the film ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ it starts off following the protagonist ‘Ana’ through a normal day, although unlike ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ it get’s straight into the horror. The camera cuts to the first person perspective, outside Ana's bedroom door, then the camera gets closer and closer, this causes suspense which is an important element to any horror film. Suddenly it cuts to a wide shot of Ana’s bedroom, all of a sudden the door slowly starts to open and the camera zooms in onto the handle of the door as it’s still opening. The director's use of shadow makes Ana’s daughter look normal which gives the viewer a false sense of security, then as she slowly walks into the light that sense of security quickly

Whenever we become “blind” to Jeff’s surroundings it adds much more suspense to the scene. The way Hitchcock filmed this movie was absolutely

It is unusual for me to watch a biopic movie due to my misconception of its unattractive features such as boring, monotonous, predictable. However, it seems that everything has changed dramatically since I watched "Miss Potter" - a movie based on true story of a well-known English children's book author- Beatrix Potter.

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Synapse Films has released Sorceress on Blu-ray with a pretty stunning 2K transfer. The film is also released uncut, with all sex scenes intact (if they weren't, I assume the film would be 20 minutes long). As for special features, you have two commentaries, one with director Jim Wynorski and the other with Wynorski and Tom Savini. The first commentary is a bit more informative, whereas the second one with Tom Savini is a laugh riot. Savini pretty much asks all the questions we as a viewer are asking. Sadly, no other features are included. Come on! Where are my numerous interviews with all these "stars"?

Not only is Natural Born Killers is a uniquely-directed feature, because of the wide-range of camera angles, filters, lenses and special effects used during its production but it also films much of the film in what seems to be told from a "television-perspective". The varied aspects of the film that are done in this “television-perspective” or “media vision” bring out the grittiness of the plot. Often time scenes are either in black and white or in what sometimes resembles Technicolor. It makes the audience feel as though they are either watching a documentary or the news for that matter.

Nico Mastorakis is starting to become a favorite of mine. Things started off shaky with the Island of Death movie, but once I saw The Zero Boys, I fell in love with his directing. The streak of hits continues with Hired to Kill, a 1990 action flick starring Brian Thompson as a mercenary going undercover as a fashion mogul to rescue a hostage from a deranged madman played by Oliver Reed (whew, that's a mouthful of a synopsis). It's got a fun vibe, with plenty of action and beautiful ladies. The Blu-ray from Arrow Video is another in a long line of stellar releases, with a wonderful transfer and some lovely new interviews with director Nico Mastorakis and star Brian Thompson. You should know by now that the Blu is worth picking up, but if you want to know more, please read on...

As previously mentioned, the special features on Species II are rather substantial. You have a newer interview with Natasha Henstridge, who discusses the first, second and third movies in the Species series. She is looking stunning, maybe even more stunning than she did in the movie. Next up you have interviews with the special effects crew, which goes into large details about the use of practical and digital effects in the movie. Steve Johnson also talks a bit about working with H.R. Giger, which is also an interesting discussion. The next big feature is the interview with screenwriter Chris Brancato, who talks in detail about the strange scenes in the movie and that hilarious ending. It was a blast listening to this guy talk. Another new feature is some behind the scenes footage and outtakes with the special effects. A few carried over features from past releases are a commentary with director Peter Medak, uncut footage not shown in theaters, an older featurette basically hyping the movie up and finally a trailer