(Hide and Seek, 2005)
Well, another week has come and another topic has come to the throne of our blog. This weak the topic is:
FEAR
How many times have we wasted our popcorn in the cinema while watching a movie that made us jump from our seats? Why do we buy popcorn if we're going to watch a scary movie? In fact, why do we watch those movies, anyway?
Those scary, horror, terror movies, those thrillers, made us segregate adrenaline which makes us feel good. It makes us feel good because, unluckily, our lives are kind of monotonous and we want some excitement. And everybody wants to scream out loud at some point on that routine.
But how does a movie express fear?
There a lot of answers, and many of them -I'd rather say all- are known by everybody.
First of all, the night. All those "scary" scenes happen during the night, sometimes peaceful, sometimes stormy, sometimes foggy... but never during the day. Have you ever seen a zombie waking up from death at midday? Or a gravedigger walking though a graveyard at teatime? Of cours not. What we are used to see are scenes where ghosts, shadows and specters appear in the middle of a room after the second lightning. Yeah, always after the second. The first one is only to show us that the room is empty (and to warn us that with the second one something or someone will be there waiting for us to jump). Typical cliché.
Secondly, sudden proximity. This is a very common used scene as well. Someone is talking to smeone and when he or she turn around, there's someone just in front of him, a few milimiters from his/her face. It can be a good or a bad guy, but it always scares the public.
On third place, blood. And this includes blood puddles, blood ink, sentences written with blood... But not someone bleading, That's not scary, that's disgusting. And speaking of scary sentences, who doesn't find creepy a sentenced created mysteriously on the mirror when the bathroom is full of steam? These tend to be imperatives like "go away" or "don't interphere". But they can also be valous information kind of "he killed me".
There are many, many very used scenes which express and provoques fear on movies.
I'm going to put a trailer of a scary film I watched when I was younger and I won't watch it again.
"Fragile"
And I'm putting a few more tittles that will surely give you nightmares:
- The Ring
- The Exorcist
- Rec
- The hills have eyes
- What lies beneath (which is shown tonight, I think)
So, do you still have popcorn left?
Boo!
Here you have a few links related to the topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile_(2005_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Lies_Beneath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring_(2002_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hills_Have_Eyes_(1977_film)
Nora Huarte Castro
35 ways of silent scream
Aka: how to express oneself through...
cinema
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