Brief plot
outline: A young girl keeps
having moments where she wonders off and puts herself in all kinds of dangerous
situations only to be saved by her mother. The girl has no memory of the things
she does, the girl and her mother go on a long drive but they crash just
outside of Silent Hill and when the mother regains conciseness her daughter is
nowhere to be found. Can she save her daughter from her own worst fears?
Which two
scenes impressed you the most? Why? The first scene that impressed me was where the final girl
walks into the room full of the undead nurses because the scene was so
unsettling, the way they moved was unsettling too and the whole scene was very
tense because of techniques such as low key lighting and the use of the
flashlight which restricted what we could see making it that much scarier. The
cutting gets quicker the further into the scene we get until the nurses notice
the final girl and try to kill her but they just end up slitting each other’s
throats the use of the gore here made this scene more disgusting for the
audience. The other scene was where the character “Pyramid Head” rips the skin
off of a living woman, this scene completely shocked me because it was very sudden
and the use of body horror was very powerful too.
How has
watching this film helped you understand this genre of film making? Which
features on the genre checklist did you spot in the film? When? How? This film helped me understand the horror genre by using a
wide range of cinematography, editing, sound etc. This film used most of the
genre checklist however there was no psycho serial killer because it was not
needed because instead it used a variety of slow moving monsters. There was plenty of body horror/ blood and gore
like the end scene with the barb wire that kills nearly everyone, the creepy
location was Silent Hill itself which worked very well because it created that
sense of being trapped as the only way out was collapsed. Low key lighting was
used when hiding from “Pyramid Head” in a dark room with only one exit. There
was a male hero in this film but he wasn’t involved much because he wasn’t in
Silent Hill, however there were two female heroes which were the police woman
and the girl’s mother, although you might say the police woman was a female
victim as well.
Which
aspects of the film would you like to AVOID in your own trailer? Why? Can you
recreate this in your own film? How? If I had to choose something that I would avoid in my own
trailer it would be that the film used too many computer animated effects on
the gore and personally I prefer practical effects because they look more
realistic.
What were
the best aspect/ more enjoyable moment in the film? Why? Can you recreate this
in your own film? How? I wouldn’t say it was an enjoyable moment but when Cyndil
(the police woman) is burnt alive for being a witch. I’d like to recreate this
because she was a likeable character who was unfairly killed because she saved
the final girl, there was an emotional effect when she was killed and I would
like to recreate this so that it has a horrifying effect on my audience.
How does
the film show the influence of its “auteur” director? How does it show the
directors filmmaking style and soul? Give examples of three scenes from the
movie that show their auteur style. You can see from watching films directed by Christophe Gans
that he likes dark plots which is clear to me after watching Brotherhood of the Wolf which is about
a serial killer in eighteenth century France . This is also made obvious from the
opening to Silent Hill has a little
girl nearly killing herself so already you can tell the auteur style is dark,
as for setting the first time you see the town of Silent Hill it is barely
visible because of the fog and instantly makes the audience feel gloomy. Then
there is the children’s school which is creepy and this makes the audience
uneasy especially because of the use of blood and corpses.
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