Movie Analysis 3/5

The films we watched in class were “Nosferatu” (1922), “The Shining” (1980), and “The Cojuring” (2013). Each of these films key components in creating a sense of terror was music. Music developed a sense of suspense, horror, and it even build up the anticipation on what will happen next in each one of these clips. Throughout the years music has grown to be louder, for example the louder the music gets in a scene one will figure out that something creepy is about to happen or pop out. In “Nosfertu” they definitely relied more on music than the other films being that it was a silent film.  Nonetheless, despite the time era the way each one of these films used music was very effective on creating a sense of terror.

Personally the film that I feel was the most effective was “The Conjuring”, sure it may not have been terribly scary, if anything it was more jumpy. However, the way the started it off one would think that “Okay, this isn’t too bad” but by the end of the movie one may be pretty shaken up. Music was definitely a factor in creating that sense of creepiness throughout the movie, for example when the old lady was on top of the dresser the music just seemed to grow louder and louder making one think holy crap, holy crap, holy crap what is going to happen next. Well for me at least. And again, one see’s the music build up when they are performing the exorcism, just making it be that much creepier then it already is. “The conjuring” took the creepiness/music aspect to a whole other level and that is why I personally feel that this film was the most effective in creating suspense and terror.