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Director: F.W. Murnauwrite

Writers: Henrik Galeen

Production companies:•Jofa- Atlier Berlin Johannisthal•Prana- Film GmbH

Run time: 94 minutes

Released : 3 June 1929Made in 1922

Certificate: unrated

• This film is based in Germany.• Equilibrium: The film starts with an associate

– Hutter who has to go to the counts house to sell him a home

• It starts with an associate – Hutter who has to go to the counts house to sell him a home.

• Disequilibrium: After arriving at his house he manages to sell the count his house.

• However, he notices that a shadow seems to be following him

• He eventually sees the count asleep in his crypt.

• He traps Hutter in the house.• The count hiding in a shipment of coffins

makes his way to Wisbourg- he causes death along the way and is the main reason for the plague.

• Hutter rushes home to save his wife Ellen from Nosferatu.

• As Nosferatu gets closer Ellen can feel the impending darkness getting closer to her.

• She realises that she could sacrifice herself to kill the vampire.

• There is no new equilibrium as the film end on an enigma code. This would be appealing to the target audience as leaves them to infer what could have happened. This makes it entertaining which demonstrates uses and gratification theory.

• Also this film abides by the 8 stock characters theory as there is a ‘villain’ which is Dracula, ‘victim’ who is Hutter and Ellen. This would have appealed to the mass audience of the time as the stereotypical characters mean that the audience can easily establish who they should identify with. This demonstrates

uses and gratification theory. Also 8 stock character theory is conventional to the horror genre.

• Moreover the use of the ‘vampire’ being the villain is a common convention of horror films.

Cast:Nosferatu: Max Schreck

Ellen Hutter: Greta Schroder

Annie: Ruth Landshoff

Hutter: Gustav von Wangenheim.

Alexander Granach: knock

Themes evident: Love: this is the love that Hutter has for Ellen.

Death: Nosferatu kills all those inocent people.

This shows binary oppositions as its evil vs. good.

There is only ambient sound in the film with the accompaniment of occasional stings. The ambient music is instrumental and gets faster pace when they are trying to build up tension in a scene.

Colour: Black and White – this would appeal to the audience as the dark black and whit e lighting makes it more scary as it accentuates the shadows which makes it scarier for the audience. This expressive lighting needed to be used as there Is no sound.

The character s in nosferatu wore normal clothes – this added versimilartude to the story.

Due to the time of this film the technology wasn’t advanced so the camera jump cuts between shots.

• Due to Nosferatu conforming to the 8 stock character theory This means that the narrative structure is very linear and makes it easier for the audience of the time to identify the good and bad characters.

• Also as the film has a clear binary opposition- Good vs. evil (Hutter vs. Count). This would again make it easier for the audience of the time to identify the characters .

• The film has proved popular with new audiences as it is a ‘classic horror’ as it is one of the first horrors ever made.

1920’s: Nosferatu (1922)

Nosferatu:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcyzubFvBsA

1920’s: The phantom of the opera (1925Production information:

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Director:Rupert Julian Lon ChaneyErnst LaemmleEdward Sedgwick

Writer:Gaston Leroux

Production companies:Universal pictures

Run time:93 minuits

Certificate: unrated

Released: 15 November 1925

• The phantom threatens Carlotta (the lead soprano) to give up her role and give it to Christine Daae.

• The phantom is in love with christine but she is in love with ‘Raoul de Chagny’ 

• There is a clear equilibrium where Carlotta has the lead role at the beginning and is happy.

• Then the disequilibrium occurs when the phantom forces her to give up her role and the phantom finds out the Christine is in love with someone else.

• Then there is equilibrium again when raoul de chagny tries to rescue chrstine after the phantom traps her.

The Phantom: Lon Chaney

Christina Daae: Mary Philbin.

Vicomte Raul de Chagny: Norman Kerry

• This film abides by 8 stock characters theory as there is an identifyable villain – the phantom, there is a victim – Christine and the hero ‘Raoul de chagny’.

• Using 8 stock characters is a common convention of the horror genre.

• There is also binary oppositions between the phantom (evil) vs good (Raoul de chagny, carlotta and christine)

Colour: Black and White

Sound mix:Mono (Talking sequences , musical score and sound effects) (1929 release was silent)There is ambient sound in the film. This is again instrumental as they didn’t have advanced enough technology for computer generated sound.

The film is again filmed in black and white. This is due to the technology not being advanced enough for colour shots.However this helps to make the audience more ‘scared’ as the black and whit makes it more mysterious. It also makes the shadows stand out more and make the characters look more sinister. This would have entertained the audience. This demonstrates uses and gratification theory.The characters are wearing relatively normal clothing – this is to add verisimilitude to the narrative.The camera often jump cuts to the next shot. This is due to the technology of the time not permitting more complicated transitions (e.g. dissolve).

As this film has a linear structure it is easy for the audience of the time to follow the narrative of the phantom.The film contains elements of romance – the phantom loves christine. This ideology would be familiar for the 1920’s audience that would have watched it. This would make it ‘identifyable’ to the audience. This demonstrates uses and gratification theory.

The phantom the opera

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9bobXKRssg

1930’s: Frankenstein (1931)

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Director: James Whale

Writers:John L BalderstonMary Shelley

Production company:Universal pictures

Run time: 70 minuites

Release Date: 21 November 1931

Certificate: PG.

• Frankenstein is a scientist after an experiment he produces a monster who he didn’t think was going to be so dangerous.

• • There is evidence

of the supernatural – Frankenstein’s monster.

• This is a common convention of the horror genre.

Colin clive: Henry frankenstein

Mae clarke: Elizabeth

Boris Karloff: The monster

Frederick Kerr: Baron Frankenstein

• The story is linear and abides by 8 stock character theory.

• There is a villain – the monster Frankenstein has created.

• Victim- the little girl

• There is a clear binary opposition here good vs. evil. This is a common convention of the horror genre. It also makes the audience understand the narrative better.

Sound mix: monoThe only sound is the sound in the diagesis. There is speech and the sound coming from the machinery itself.Colour: Black and whiteBlack and whit is a common convention of the horror genre. This is also due to the fact that the technology hadnt advanced enough yet.

The camera jump cuts between the shots.

The costumes of the characters are fairly normal. This is as it has versimilatude. This also means that the audience can identfy with the characters. This demonstrates uses and gratification theory.

• This appeal to the audience of the time as it is one of the first films to have speech sound. This would have made it clearer for the audience to understand what is going on instead of having to interpret like in previous films.

• This would also have been quite ‘revolutionary’ for the audience of the time therefore making it appeal to a mass audience as many would have wanted to see it. this would have made the film very succesful.

• This also means that this film remaions popular to modern audiences as the speech means that we can now understand the nararative and is a ‘classic’ horror movie of which has been remade many times.

Frankenstein

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H3dFh6GA-A

Dracula (1931)

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Directors:Tod Browning Karl Freund

Writers:Bram StokerHamilton Deane

Production company:Universal pictures

Run time: 75mins

Release date:14 february 1931

Certificate:PG.

• Renfield arrives at Draculas castel – Dracula turns him into one of his thralls

• Van Helsing has an clue that Dracula is indeed a vampire and tries to prove that he is after Dracula kills a young girl.

• The film abides by todorovs equilibrium theory.

• Equilibrium: Renfield arrives at Draculas castel thinking that everything’s ok

• Disequilibrium: Renfield is turned into one of his thralls. Dracula kills a young girl.

• Equiilibrium: Van helsing tries to save the girl.

Count Dracula: Bela lugosi

Mina: Helen Chandler

John Harker: David Manners.

Renfield: Dwight Frye

The film abides by 8 stock character theory.There is a villain – Dracula.Victim: Renfield/ young girlHero – Van Helsing.

8 stock characters theory is a common convention of the horror genre.

Sound: Mono (western electric sound system)

Colour: Black and white. This is a common convention of horror. This type of expressive lighting is used as technology doesn’t permit coloured shots but it does create more of a sinister atmosphere as the shadows cast on the characters.

The costumes of the characters are normal except for the count who wears a cape to connote to the audience that he is a ‘vampire’ and the ‘villain’. The cape is stereotypical clothing that a ‘vampire’ would wear. Thus meaning It is conventional to the genre.

This film appeals to the target audience of the time due to the way in which the narrative has been constructed. Due to the protagonist and villain of the film is a vampire- this is quite a popular convention of horror genre. This is as vampires being featured previously in films such as Nosferatu. This is intertextual to that film.

Also, as the previous vampire film –Nosferatu was completely silent this film has a unique selling point as it has speech.

This would appeal to a modern audience as many modern day adaptions have been made. This includes films such as ‘Dracula 3D’ made in 2012. This means that the narrative in these Modern Dracula films is inter-textual to the first one ever made. This targets a mass target audience who want to see the ‘original’ film.

Dracula

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVb2q0eNFxI

1940’s: The Wolf man

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Directors:George Waggner

Writers:Curt Siodmak

Production company:Universal pictures

Run time:70minuites.

Release date:12 December 1941

Certificate:PG

• After a man returns home he is bitten by a warewolf and infected with a disease.

• The disease causes him to turn into a vampire every full moon.

• There is a stark binary opposition between the werewolf version of him vs. the normal version of himself.

• Also, having a character that is supernatural is conventioanl to the horror genre.

the wolf man: Lon Chaney Jr.

Sir John Talbot: Claude Rains.

Col. Montford: Ralph Bellamy

Dr. Lloyd: Warren William

Frank Andrews: Patric Knowles.

Bela: Bela Lugosi

Sound: Mono (western electric Microphonic recording)

Colour: Black and White.

By having this supernatural character it appeals to the imaginations of the audience of the time and entertains them. This demonstrates uses and gratification theory.

This also appeals to the audience of the time as having a werewolf was different. This meant the audience was more intrigued to watch it.

The Wolf Man

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsrFMBWRC1M

1948: Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

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Director:Charles Barton

Writers: Robert Lees, Frederic I. Rinaldo.

Produced by: Robert Arthur

Production company:Universal International Pictures.

Run time: 83 Minuites.

Release date:15 June 1948

Certificate: PG

• Two freight handlers take on Dracula Frankenstein's monster and Dracula.

• This is because they have been shipped from Europe to be used in a house of horrors.

• There is a clear binary opposion here of good vs. evil.

• The freight handlers vs. dracula and Frankenstein.

• Chick: Bud Abbott.

• Wilbur: Lou Costello

• Larwrence Tablot: Lon Chaney Jr.

• Dracula: Bela Lugosi

• Monster: Glenn Strange

Sound:Mono

Colour: Black and White.

The shots are still in Black and white.However, this is a common convention of classic horror films as it allows the expressive light to help to build up tension. This is It can cast shadows – this makes the set look more sinister.

The sets that they use look normal and have versimilartude. This would have been fairly low budget as film companies were not as financially equipt as they are now in modern day.

The lighting is mostly natural with hardly any use of artifical. This again would be fairly low budget.

This appeals to an audience of the time as this was the first film where characters from different films come together. This concept would have been intriguing to the audience of the time. This would have entertained them. This demonstrates uses and gratification theory.

Also, If there where fans of frankenstein or dracula they would also watch the film. This means that the film targets a mass audience – making it more succesful. Dyer starr theory can be applied here as some people may only watching it for frankenstein or Dracula.

Also, this film would be appealing to a modern target audience as it is almost comparable to the modern film ‘Avengerrs’ which has the same concept of more than one movie character in the same movie. therefore, fans of Avengers may want to see one of the first films made this way,

Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr9_dJ6TPPQ

1950’s: The thing from another world

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Director:Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks.

Writers:Charles Lederer John W. Campbell Jr.

Production company:Winchester Pictures corporation

Run time:87 Minuites.

Release date: 29 April 1951

Certificate:12

• Some scientists and American air force come into contact with a alien.

• They try to fight it off in a remote place.

• There is clear binary oppositions here of the aliens. Vs the american aira force and scientists (good vs. evil)

• The narrative is linear so it Is easy for the audience to understand.

Nikki: Margeret Sheridan

Captain Patrick Hendry: Kenneth Tobey

Dr. Arthur Carrington: Robert Cornthwaite.

The thing: James Arness.

Sound:Mono

Colour: Black and White

There is makeup to look like a male character is injured/

There is also fire and stunts in the first scene. This is significant as it shows how films are advancing in production value.

The sets themeselves are quite normal and have verisimilitude. This means that the production company would not have to pay for a film set to be specially made. This makes the film lower budget will is fitting to the time the film was made. This is as production companies not being as high budget as todays.

This appeals to the audience as it contains elements of the supernatural (alien). This is a common horror convention. This would have made it appeal to the audience as the audience would find it entertaining and would find it an escapism. This represents uses and gratification theory

The Thing from Another World

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5xcVxkTZzM

1950’s: House of wax

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Director:Andre De toth

Writers:Crane WilburCharles Belden

Production company: Bryon Foy Productions Warner Bros.

Certificate:PG

Release date:25 April 1953

Run time:90 minuites.

• One of the associates at a museum burns it down.

• However the owner was still inside.

• He becomes bitter and wants revenge.

• There is a clear binary opposition here of good vs evil.

• This is a common convention of horror films.

• Prof. Henry Jarrod: Vincent Price

• Lt. Tom Brennan: Frank Lovejoy

• Sue Allen: Phyllis Kirk.

• Cathy Gray: Carolyn Jones.

• Scott Andrew: Paul Picerni

Colour: in colour (warner colour)

Sound:Mono, stereo (WarnerPhonic/RCA)

The audience of the time would want to watch this movies as it is in colour. This was one of the first movies ever made with colour. This would have created a lot of conspiracy and want the audience to go and watch the film. This would have made it appeal to a mass target audience.

Also, fans of the technology (colour) would have gone to see it. this again ensures that the film appeals to a mass audience.

House of wax

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhgrPoVvQC8

1960: Psyco

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Director:Alfred Hitchcock

Writers:Joseph Stefano Robert Bloch

Production company:Shamley Productions

Runtime: 109 minuites.

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Released: 8 september 1960

• A Secretary steals 40,000 from her employers client.

• She then goes on the run.

• She checks into a motel in a remote area.

• This motel is run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

• There is a clear binary opposition between good vs. evil.

Normon Bates: Anthony Perkins

Lila Crane: Vera Miles

Sam Loomis: John Garvis

Marion Crane: Janet leigh

Det. Milton Arbogast: Martin Balsam.

There are ideologies presented about mental illness. These ideologies haven’t been mentioned before in a film. This is as there was a social undercurrent of mental illness in the 1960’s.

Sound:Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Colour: Black and White

Due to this controversial issue of mental illness – it made the film appeal to a mass target audience. This is as it would have entertained the audience as this had never been done before. This demonstrates uses and gratification theory.

Psycho

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps8H3rg5GfM

Night of the living dead (1968)

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Director:George A. Romero

Writers:John A. Russa, George A. Romero.

Production company:Image Ten, Leurel Group, Market Square Productions.

Certificate:15

Runtime:1 October 1968

There are a group of people who have to hide in a farmhouse as there are bloodthirsty zombies outside.

There is a stark binary opposition between good vs. evil.This is a common convention of the horror genre. This means it is successful in its genre and making the audience feel ‘scared’.

Ben: Duane Jones

Barbra: Judith O’Dea

Harry:Karl Hardman.

The setting has got a lot of versimilartude. This means that it would be relatively low budget to film at.

Colour: Black and White

Sound: Mono

The audience of the time would be interested in this film because of the linear narrative. This means that the audience of the time would be able to follow easily as it isnt too demanding.

Also, the element of ‘zombies’ would interest most audience. This makes it appeal to a mass target audience. This will make the film more succesfull

Night of the living Dead

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_f2Enn8x5s

1973: The exorcist

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Director: William Friedkin

Writer:William Peter Blatty

Production company:Warner BrosHoya Productions

Certificate:(Banned)

Release Date:16 March 1974

• A teenage girl is possesd by an external force.

• Her mother is worried about her so seeks help from two priests in an attempt to save her daughter.

• There are binary oppositions within the daughter (the force that’s possesing her vs. the real her) good vs. evil.

Chris MacNeil: Ellen Burstyn

Father Merrin: Max Von Sydow.

Lt. William Kinderman:Lee J cobb.

Sharon Spencer: Kitty Winn

Colour:In colour (Metrocolour)

Sound: (origional release) Mono.

There is fake blood and prosthetics used in the film to create the ‘possesd’ look.

This appeals to the target audience as this type narrative has never been written before with the ideologies of posession.

It has a religious undercurrent of the priest and possesion by an external force. As people were still quite reiligious it would appeal to them

The exorcist

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iS59iV2Ffs

1979: Alien

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Directors: Ridley Scott

Writers: Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett.

Production Company:Brandywine Productions, Twentieth Century-fox Productions.

Certificate:X

Release Date:1 November 1979

• The vessel Nostromo receieves a distress call from an unidentified planet.

• They search for survivers and there are none

• On their way back they realise that a deadly bioform has joined them

• There is clear binary oppositions – good vs. evil

• This is a clear horror convention

• This means that it appeals to a mass target audience.

Dallas: Tom Skerritt

Ripley: Sigourney Weaver.

Lambert:Veronica Cartwright.

Brett: Harry Dean Stanton

Kane: John Hurt.

Colour: In colour

Sound: Dolby (as Dolby Stereo)

There are more smooth transitions from shot to shot.This is a progression from the abrupt jump cut previously used.This is due to an advance in technology which allowed there to be these kinds of transitions.

The budget was higher for this film as it is set in space so special sets would have to be made and the creation of the alien in the narrative would have to be produced.

This would appeal to the audience as it shows a clear advance in technology from previously.This is due to the transitions becoming more smooth and there being a higher production value. this would be there unique selling point.This would make it appeal to a mass target audience. Therefore be a successful film.

Alien

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjLamj-b0I8

1980’s: A nightmare on Elm Street

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Director:Wes Craven

Writer:Wes Craver

Production company:New line cinema,Media home Entertainment, Smart Egg Pictures

Certificate: 18

Release date:16 November 1984

• A child murderer stalks his victims in there dreams.

• His victims were the members of the lynch mob that tried to kill him.

Lt Donald Thompson: John Saxon

Marge Thompson: Ronee Blackley

Nancy Thompson: Heather Langenkamp

Christina ‘Tina’ Gray : Amanda Wyss.

Colour: Colour

Sound: Mono

There is tense soundtracks in the film. In the opening scene there is ambient tense sound. It sounds like a piano key being played.However, it has been built up and added in with special software. This is a progression from the first horror movie ever made (Nosferatu) where the music is purely instrumental.

This would have appealed to the audience of the time as the narrative that is contructed is diverse. This would have made it stand out from the other films and thus make it more succesful.

A Nightmare on Elm street

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn_DjzN8410

Friday the 13th (1980)Production information:

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Director: Sean S Cunnigham

Writers:Victor Miller Sean S. Cunninham.

Production company: Paramount Pictures, Georgetown Productions Inc. Sean C. cunninham Films.

Certificate: X

Release Date: 9 May 1980

• Camp courselors are beginning to be stalked and killed by unknown murderer..

•  there as clear binary oppositon between good vs. evil.

• This is a common horror convention.

• This means it is successful in its genre.

Lt Donald Thompson: John Saxon

Marge Thompson: Ronee Blakley

Nancy Thompson: Heather Langenkamp

Colour: in Colour

Sound: Mono

This would have appealed to the audience of the time as the narrative that is contructed is diverse. This would have made it stand out from the other films and thus make it more succesful.

Friday 13th

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S8YFTcEDME

Scream: 1998Production information:

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Director: Wes Craven

Writer:Kevin Williamson

Production Company: Dimension Films, Konrad Pictures, Craven Maddelena Films

Certificate: 18

Release Date: 1 May 1998

• A killer known as ghost face begins to kill teenagers.

• there as clear binary oppositon between good vs. evil.

• This is a common horror convention.

• This means it is successful in its genre.

Maureen: Jada Pinkett Smith

Phil: Omar Epps

Colour: In Colour

Sound: Dolby Digital

This would have appealed to the audience of the time as the narrative that is contructed is diverse. This would have made it stand out from the other films and thus make it more succesful.

Scream 1996

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVKJXfRm_g

Dead Alive: (1992).

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Director:Peter Jackson

Writers: Stephen SinclairFran Walsh

Production company:WingNut Films, New zealand Film Commission, Avalon/NFU Studios

Certificate:18

Release Date:14 May 1993

• There is a young man's mother who is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey.

• She gets ill and dies, However, she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbours.

• Binary oppositions theory.

Lionel Cosgrove: Timothy Balme

Paquita Maria Sanchez: Diana Penalver

Mum:Elizabeth Moody.

Uncle les: Ian Watkin

Nurse McTavish: Brenda Kendall

Father McGruder: Stuart Devenie.

Colour: In colour

Sound: Dolby Stereo

The audience of the time would be interested in this film because of the linear narrative. This means that the audience of the time would be able to follow easily as it isnt too demanding.

Dead alive (1992)• http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKbGrK164qY

2000: Final Destination

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Direction: James Wong

Writers: Glen MorganJames Wong

Production company: New line Cinema, Zide- Perry Productions, Hard Eight Pictures.

Certificate:15

Release Date:19 May 2000

• A teenager has a premonition that him and his friends are going to die.

• Death hunts him down

• Binary oppistions of good vs evil.

• Evil being death

Alex Browning: Devon Sawa

Clear Rivers: Ali Larter

Carter Horton: Kerr Smith.

Valerie Lewton: Kristen Cloke.

Agent Weine: Daniel Roebuck.

Colour: In colour

Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS.

Unique perspective of death being evil. This will entertain the audience – this demonstrates uses and gratification theory.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVPGG0i765s

American psychoProduction information:

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Director: Mary Harron

Writers: Bret Easten Ellis, Mary Harron.

Production Company:Am Psycho Productions, Edward R. Pressman Film, Lions Gate Films.

Certificate:18

Release Date: 21 April 2000

• There is a wealthy new york banking executive who hides his mental illness.

• He slips further into his physcotic fantasies.

Patrick Bateman: Christian Bale

Timothy Bryce: Justin Theroux

Craig McDermott: Josh Lucas.

David Van Patten: Bill Sage.

Jean: Chloe Savigny

Colour: colour

Sound: Dolby Digital.

This will apeal to the target audience there has previously beeen ‘physco’ this means that fans of this will watch this too as it is a modern day remake.This is as there has been an advance in technology.

American psycho.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIsExb5jJU

Insidious (2010)

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Director: James Wan

Writer:Leigh Whannell

Release Date:29 April 2011

Production company: Alliance Films, IM Global, Haunted Movies

Certificate: 15

• A family tries to prevent evil spirits from trapping their child.

Josh Lambert: Patrick Wilson

Renai Lambert: Rose Byrne

Dalton Lambert: Ty Simpkins

Elise Rainer: Lin Shaye

Specs: Leigh Whannell

Sound: SDDS, Dolby Digital

Colour: In colour.

The advance in technology means that it will make it seem more real and thus terrifying to the audience. This will make it more entertaining for the audience. This demonstrates uses and gratification theory.

Insidious (2010)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1YbOMDI59k

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

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Director: Samuel Bayer.

Writer: Wesley StrickEric Heisserer

Release Date: 7 May 2010

Production company:New line Cinema, Platinum Dunes.

• A serail killer begins to kill people in their dreams.

Freddy Krueger: Jackie Earle Haley

Quentin Smith: Kyle Gallner

Nancy Holbrook: Rooney Mara.

Kris Fowles: Katie Cassidy

Jesse Braun: Thomas Dekker

Dean Russell: Kellan lutz.

Colour: In colour

Sound: Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS.

This is a remake of the earlier version thus meaning that fans of the previous one would watche it. this makes it appeal to a mas audience.

A night on elm street (2010)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISzAuk-2NYs