Saturday, May 10, 2014

A Critical Study of Horror Films - Week 3

Playing a lot of catch up and staying on track is a little hard.
This weeks reading is
Read in Doc Sharing the following:
Camera Shots and Movement

Read in Webliography
7 Shots Horror Film Makers Should Never be Allowed to Use Again
Top 10 Hand Held Horrors

and to watching

Summer's Moon.
 

This movie shows a lot of reasons why a movie goes straight to DVD. The story line does have the twists needed to keep a steady flow, but is still fairly predictable.
The movie is also known under the name Summer's Blood and was released in 2009.
After watching this the Sub-Genera could fall into the slasher and also the Pshyco thriller area. There are a lot of traits that lead you to the Psycho thriller vibe. The play on roles, the rise of the expectation as Summer hunts for her lost father only to have the brick wall of a realization that her Father is so far gone that he is the last person she should have been looking for. The Graphic scenes lean toward the Slasher sub Genera and tend to detract from the movie more than support the overall story. In the end the impression is left that really Summer fits right into the family.

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