Initial Research: Favourite Horror Scene

I've picked Silent Hill as my favourite horror film because I like how it was a gory action horror that also had aspects of a phsycological horror and I thought that it blended these sub genres really well. I also like the use of monsters in film because I like to see what sort of creatures can be made up. I think that this type of horrors target audience is aimed at men and women almost equally especially as the protagonists where all strong female characters which would obviously appeal to a female audience, while the other elements such as gore and monsters appeal to a mainly male audience.

This scene uses conventional techniques to make the audience tense and scared, one such technique is the sound used there is no music and all we can hear is the heavy breathing of the nurses, the nurses also use very sudden movements and makes the audience jump every time they move because their movements are normally folllowed by a loud bang of a foot on the floor. Collision cutting is also used to create tension, when we first see the nurses they stand motionless and then suddenly start to move when light is shined on them this is when the cuts happen quicker.

The way that the nurses move may also put some fear into the audience because it's so unnatural and weird gore is another effect used to scare the audinece like when one of the nurses throat is slit open. There are a few close ups used in this scene but there are mostly medium shots to get a good view of the protagonist getting through the crowd.