Analysing the Horror Film "Nightmare on Elm Street":

 

Horror analysis:

(opening two minutes)
 

Nightmare on Elm Street:

At the start of the film it just shows the title which is bright red with a black background which suggests that there is going to death, blood and horror in this movie, by not even seeing the film yet the audience are getting scared. To draw the audience in it is also silent to draw tension and make the audience aware of what is about to happen.

Quickly it then it then focuses on this heavy boots clomping along the ground which quickly grabs the viewers attention, it sounds like his feet are damp which suggets that he doesn't ever wash.

He walks as if he has just learnt which suggets he isn't a normal person or he is very hurt which may link to him being angry and could suggest why he is the main character in the film.

Again you do not see is face it just does a high angle, close up of his hands, you can see he is emptying a bag of tools. This would make the audience feel uncomfortable and wonder what he is going to do or has done with those tools. He then grabs a sharp knife which he takes over to a glove and he cuts bits up. Everything he picks up makes a noise which may make the audience feel unpleasant and may not want to watch. You get a long shot of his glasses which tells the audience that he is a person because he wouldn't be a monster and wearing glasses, although it may make them think that he has stollen them from one of his victims which again would make them feel uncomfortable and scared.

In the background you can hear heavy breathing which make cause tension and make the audience feel frightened, you can also see steam which makes you wonder where he is and what he is actually doing because if he was a regular person then he would have a house that he could go to do whatever he is actually doing.

He is making a weapon using his bare hands which shows that he is

Indestructible and this would make the audience again frightened. You then get a close up of what he has made- it is a glove which has knifes coming off the fingers. This then shows that he is going to hurt someone badly. He then opens his hands and the music becomes very upbeat and scary, this would make the viewers wonder what heis going to do next and want to carry on watching. Then 'Nightmare' comes up and it is bright red and it is in the style of blood dripping, you can now tell that this film is not going to auwell!

The scene then quickly goes to the glove going through a sheet which is similar to a curtain, it does a close up shot of the knifes slicing quickly through. You hear screaming and a tearing sound which straight away grabs the audience's attention making the film officially a Horror film. It then goes to a close up of a young teenage girl who looks so scared that she has gone pale, in this part they have used a blonde, pretty girl who the man is after which shows they are stereotyping young, gullibly girls. They go to an extreme close up on her face which shows she has been crying as you can see her make up has smudged, the audience would start to feel sorry for this girl and they would want to help her but then it is only a film. In the background you can hear the man is breathing heavily and you can hear a faint screaming sound from other people suggesting he is also after them and he can be in more than one place. There is then a long shot of a corridor which is wet and you see the girl but only the outline of her, she is in a nighty which shows she was taken from her bed. This would make the audience wonder how she got from her house to the middle of no where and make the suspicious. The music becomes high pitch and brings in excitment and the audience are going to become worried but want to carry on to see what happens next. Her breathing comes upbeat as she is running and you can tell she is beggining to get so scared and she doesn't know where to go or what to do, you then hear his voice but is hard to know what he is saying as it is very mubbled. It goes silent and you hear a door slam but no one is there, all of a sudden a sheep comes out of no where and is going crazy! The audience would be completly shocked, and thinking where has this come from? Why is it there? What is it doing? The fear on the girls faced has increased and you hear the mans laughs and it ecos over the corridor this brings tension to the scene.