2. Productio
n
informatio
n:
Plot outline: Characters
in the film:
Technology: Audience appeal
Director:
F.W.
Murnauwrit
e
Writers:
Henrik
Galeen
Production
companies:
•Jofa- Atlier
Berlin
Johannisth
al
•Prana-
Film GmbH
Run time:
94 minutes
Released :
3 June
1929
Made in
1922
Certificate:
unrated
• This film is based in Germany.
• Equilibrium: The film starts with an associate –
Hutter who has to go to the counts house to sell him
a home
• It starts with an associate – Hutter who has to go to
the counts house to sell him a home.
• Disequilibrium: After arriving at his house he
manages to sell the count his house.
• However, he notices that a shadow seems to be
following him
• He eventually sees the count asleep in his crypt.
• He traps Hutter in the house.
• The count hiding in a shipment of coffins makes his
way to Wisbourg- he causes death along the way
and is the main reason for the plague.
• Hutter rushes home to save his wife Ellen from
Nosferatu.
• As Nosferatu gets closer Ellen can feel the
impending darkness getting closer to her.
• She realises that she could sacrifice herself to kill
the vampire.
• There is no new equilibrium as the film end on an
enigma code. This would be appealing to the target
audience as leaves them to infer what could have
happened. This makes it entertaining which
demonstrates uses and gratification theory.
• Also this film abides by the 8 stock characters theory
as there is a ‘villain’ which is Dracula, ‘victim’ who is
Hutter and Ellen. This would have appealed to the
mass audience of the time as the stereotypical
characters mean that the audience can easily
establish who they should identify with. This
demonstrates uses and gratification theory. Also 8
stock character theory is conventional to the horror
Cast:
Nosferatu:
Max Schreck
Ellen Hutter:
Greta
Schroder
Annie: Ruth
Landshoff
Hutter:
Gustav von
Wangenhei
m.
Alexander
Granach:
knock
Themes
evident:
Love: this is
the love that
Hutter has
for Ellen.
Death:
Nosferatu
kills all
those
inocent
There is only ambient
sound in the film with the
accompaniment of
occasional stings. The
ambient music is
instrumental and gets
faster pace when they are
trying to build up tension
in a scene.
Colour: Black and
White – this would
appeal to the audience
as the dark black and
whit e lighting makes it
more scary as it
accentuates the
shadows which makes
it scarier for the
audience. This
expressive lighting
needed to be used as
there Is no sound.
The character s in
nosferatu wore normal
clothes – this added
versimilartude to the
story.
Due to the time of this
film the technology
• Due to Nosferatu
conforming to the
8 stock character
theory This
means that the
narrative structure
is very linear and
makes it easier for
the audience of
the time to identify
the good and bad
characters.
• Also as the film
has a clear binary
opposition- Good
vs. evil (Hutter vs.
Count). This
would again make
it easier for the
audience of the
time to identify the
characters .
• The film has
proved popular
with new
audiences as it is
a ‘classic horror’
as it is one of the
first horrors ever
made.
1920’s: Nosferatu (1922)
4. 1920’s: The phantom of the opera (1925
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the
film:
Technology: Audience appeal
Director:
Rupert Julian
Lon Chaney
Ernst Laemmle
Edward Sedgwick
Writer:
Gaston Leroux
Production companies:
Universal pictures
Run time:
93 minuits
Certificate: unrated
Released: 15
November 1925
• The phantom
threatens Carlotta
(the lead soprano) to
give up her role and
give it to Christine
Daae.
• The phantom is in
love with christine
but she is in love
with ‘Raoul de
Chagny’
• There is a clear
equilibrium where
Carlotta has the lead
role at the beginning
and is happy.
• Then the
disequilibrium
occurs when the
phantom forces her
to give up her role
and the phantom
finds out the
Christine is in love
with someone else.
• Then there is
equilibrium again
when raoul de
chagny tries to
rescue chrstine after
The Phantom: Lon
Chaney
Christina Daae:
Mary Philbin.
Vicomte Raul de
Chagny: Norman
Kerry
• This film abides
by 8 stock
characters theory
as there is an
identifyable villain
– the phantom,
there is a victim –
Christine and the
hero ‘Raoul de
chagny’.
• Using 8 stock
characters is a
common
convention of the
horror genre.
• There is also
binary oppositions
between the
phantom (evil) vs
good (Raoul de
Colour: Black and White
Sound mix:
Mono (Talking sequences ,
musical score and sound
effects) (1929 release was
silent)
There is ambient sound in the
film. This is again instrumental
as they didn’t have advanced
enough technology for
computer generated sound.
The film is again filmed in black
and white. This is due to the
technology not being advanced
enough for colour shots.
However this helps to make the
audience more ‘scared’ as the
black and whit makes it more
mysterious. It also makes the
shadows stand out more and
make the characters look more
sinister. This would have
entertained the audience. This
demonstrates uses and
gratification theory.
The characters are wearing
relatively normal clothing – this
is to add verisimilitude to the
As this film has a linear
structure it is easy for
the audience of the
time to follow the
narrative of the
phantom.
The film contains
elements of romance –
the phantom loves
christine. This ideology
would be familiar for the
1920’s audience that
would have watched it.
This would make it
‘identifyable’ to the
audience. This
demonstrates uses and
gratification theory.
5. The phantom the opera
• http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=A9bobXKRssg
6. 1930’s: Frankenstein (1931)
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the film: Technology: Audience appeal
Director: James Whale
Writers:
John L Balderston
Mary Shelley
Production company:
Universal pictures
Run time:
70 minuites
Release Date:
21 November 1931
Certificate: PG.
• Frankenstein is a
scientist after an
experiment he
produces a monster
who he didn’t think
was going to be so
dangerous.
•
• There is evidence of
the supernatural –
Frankenstein’s
monster.
• This is a common
convention of the
horror genre.
Colin clive: Henry
frankenstein
Mae clarke: Elizabeth
Boris Karloff: The
monster
Frederick Kerr: Baron
Frankenstein
• The story is linear and
abides by 8 stock
character theory.
• There is a villain – the
monster Frankenstein
has created.
• Victim- the little girl
• There is a clear binary
opposition here good
vs. evil. This is a
common convention
of the horror genre. It
also makes the
audience understand
the narrative better.
Sound mix: mono
The only sound is the
sound in the diagesis.
There is speech and the
sound coming from the
machinery itself.
Colour: Black and white
Black and whit is a
common convention of
the horror genre. This is
also due to the fact that
the technology hadnt
advanced enough yet.
The camera jump cuts
between the shots.
The costumes of the
characters are fairly
normal. This is as it has
versimilatude. This also
means that the audience
can identfy with the
characters. This
demonstrates uses and
gratification theory.
• This appeal to the
audience of the time
as it is one of the
first films to have
speech sound. This
would have made it
clearer for the
audience to
understand what is
going on instead of
having to interpret
like in previous
films.
• This would also
have been quite
‘revolutionary’ for
the audience of the
time therefore
making it appeal to
a mass audience as
many would have
wanted to see it. this
would have made
the film very
succesful.
• This also means
that this film
remaions popular to
modern audiences
as the speech
means that we can
now understand the
nararative and is a
8. Dracula (1931)
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the film: Technology: Audience appeal
Directors:
Tod Browning
Karl Freund
Writers:
Bram Stoker
Hamilton Deane
Production
company:
Universal pictures
Run time:
75mins
Release date:
14 february 1931
Certificate:
PG.
• Renfield arrives at Draculas
castel – Dracula turns him
into one of his thralls
• Van Helsing has an clue that
Dracula is indeed a vampire
and tries to prove that he is
after Dracula kills a young
girl.
• The film abides by todorovs
equilibrium theory.
• Equilibrium: Renfield arrives
at Draculas castel thinking
that everything’s ok
• Disequilibrium: Renfield is
turned into one of his thralls.
Dracula kills a young girl.
• Equiilibrium: Van helsing tries
to save the girl.
Count Dracula: Bela
lugosi
Mina: Helen Chandler
John Harker: David
Manners.
Renfield: Dwight Frye
The film abides by 8
stock character theory.
There is a villain –
Dracula.
Victim: Renfield/ young
girl
Hero – Van Helsing.
8 stock characters
theory is a common
convention of the horror
genre.
Sound: Mono (western
electric sound system)
Colour: Black and white.
This is a common
convention of horror.
This type of expressive
lighting is used as
technology doesn’t
permit coloured shots
but it does create more
of a sinister atmosphere
as the shadows cast on
the characters.
The costumes of the
characters are normal
except for the count
who wears a cape to
connote to the audience
that he is a ‘vampire’
and the ‘villain’.
The cape is
stereotypical clothing
that a ‘vampire’ would
wear. Thus meaning It
is conventional to the
genre.
This film appeals to the
target audience of the
time due to the way in
which the narrative has
been constructed. Due
to the protagonist and
villain of the film is a
vampire- this is quite a
popular convention of
horror genre. This is as
vampires being featured
previously in films such
as Nosferatu. This is
intertextual to that film.
Also, as the previous
vampire film –Nosferatu
was completely silent
this film has a unique
selling point as it has
speech.
This would appeal to a
modern audience as
many modern day
adaptions have been
made. This includes
films such as ‘Dracula
3D’ made in 2012. This
means that the narrative
in these Modern Dracula
films is inter-textual to
10. 1940’s: The Wolf man
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the
film:
Technology: Audience appeal
Directors:
George Waggner
Writers:
Curt Siodmak
Production
company:
Universal pictures
Run time:
70minuites.
Release date:
12 December
1941
Certificate:
PG
• After a man
returns home he is
bitten by a
warewolf and
infected with a
disease.
• The disease causes
him to turn into a
vampire every full
moon.
• There is a stark
binary opposition
between the
werewolf version
of him vs. the
normal version of
himself.
• Also, having a
character that is
supernatural is
conventioanl to
the horror genre.
the wolf man: Lon
Chaney Jr.
Sir John Talbot:
Claude Rains.
Col. Montford: Ralph
Bellamy
Dr. Lloyd: Warren
William
Frank Andrews:
Patric Knowles.
Bela: Bela Lugosi
Sound: Mono
(western electric
Microphonic
recording)
Colour: Black and
White.
By having this
supernatural character
it appeals to the
imaginations of the
audience of the time
and entertains them.
This demonstrates
uses and gratification
theory.
This also appeals to
the audience of the
time as having a
werewolf was
different. This meant
the audience was
more intrigued to
watch it.
11. The Wolf Man
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsrFMBW
RC1M
12. 1948: Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet FrankensteinProduction
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the
film:
Technology: Audience appeal
Director:
Charles Barton
Writers: Robert Lees,
Frederic I. Rinaldo.
Produced by: Robert
Arthur
Production company:
Universal International
Pictures.
Run time:
83 Minuites.
Release date:
15 June 1948
Certificate:
PG
• Two freight handlers
take on Dracula
Frankenstein's monster
and Dracula.
• This is because they
have been shipped from
Europe to be used in a
house of horrors.
• There is a clear binary
opposion here of good
vs. evil.
• The freight handlers vs.
dracula and
Frankenstein.
• Chick: Bud
Abbott.
• Wilbur: Lou
Costello
• Larwrence Tablot:
Lon Chaney Jr.
• Dracula: Bela
Lugosi
• Monster: Glenn
Strange
Sound:
Mono
Colour:
Black and White.
The shots are still in
Black and white.
However, this is a
common convention of
classic horror films as
it allows the
expressive light to help
to build up tension.
This is It can cast
shadows – this makes
the set look more
sinister.
The sets that they use
look normal and have
versimilartude. This
would have been fairly
low budget as film
companies were not
as financially equipt as
they are now in
modern day.
The lighting is mostly
natural with hardly any
use of artifical. This
again would be fairly
low budget.
This appeals to an
audience of the time
as this was the first
film where characters
from different films
come together. This
concept would have
been intriguing to the
audience of the time.
This would have
entertained them. This
demonstrates uses
and gratification
theory.
Also, If there where
fans of frankenstein or
dracula they would
also watch the film.
This means that the
film targets a mass
audience – making it
more succesful. Dyer
starr theory can be
applied here as some
people may only
watching it for
frankenstein or
Dracula.
Also, this film would be
appealing to a modern
target audience as it is
almost comparable to
the modern film
14. 1950’s: The thing from another world
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the
film:
Technology: Audience appeal
Director:
Christian Nyby, Howard
Hawks.
Writers:
Charles Lederer
John W. Campbell Jr.
Production company:
Winchester Pictures
corporation
Run time:
87 Minuites.
Release date: 29 April
1951
Certificate:
12
• Some scientists and
American air force come
into contact with a alien.
• They try to fight it off in a
remote place.
• There is clear binary
oppositions here of the
aliens. Vs the american
aira force and scientists
(good vs. evil)
• The narrative is linear so it
Is easy for the audience to
understand.
Nikki: Margeret Sheridan
Captain Patrick Hendry:
Kenneth Tobey
Dr. Arthur Carrington:
Robert Cornthwaite.
The thing: James Arness.
Sound:
Mono
Colour: Black and White
There is makeup to look
like a male character is
injured/
There is also fire and
stunts in the first scene.
This is significant as it
shows how films are
advancing in production
value.
The sets themeselves are
quite normal and have
verisimilitude. This
means that the
production company
would not have to pay for
a film set to be specially
made. This makes the
film lower budget will is
fitting to the time the film
was made. This is as
production companies not
being as high budget as
todays.
This appeals to the
audience as it contains
elements of the
supernatural (alien). This
is a common horror
convention. This would
have made it appeal to
the audience as the
audience would find it
entertaining and would
find it an escapism. This
represents uses and
gratification theory
15. The Thing from Another World
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5xcVxkTZ
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16. 1950’s: House of wax
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the
film:
Technology: Audience appeal
Director:
Andre De toth
Writers:
Crane Wilbur
Charles Belden
Production
company:
Bryon Foy
Productions
Warner Bros.
Certificate:
PG
Release date:
25 April 1953
Run time:
90 minuites.
• One of the associates at a
museum burns it down.
• However the owner was still
inside.
• He becomes bitter and wants
revenge.
• There is a clear binary
opposition here of good vs evil.
• This is a common convention
of horror films.
• Prof. Henry
Jarrod: Vincent
Price
• Lt. Tom
Brennan: Frank
Lovejoy
• Sue Allen:
Phyllis Kirk.
• Cathy Gray:
Carolyn Jones.
• Scott Andrew:
Paul Picerni
Colour: in colour
(warner colour)
Sound:
Mono, stereo
(WarnerPhonic/RCA
)
The audience of the
time would want to
watch this movies as
it is in colour. This
was one of the first
movies ever made
with colour. This
would have created
a lot of conspiracy
and want the
audience to go and
watch the film. This
would have made it
appeal to a mass
target audience.
Also, fans of the
technology (colour)
would have gone to
see it. this again
ensures that the film
appeals to a mass
audience.
17. House of wax
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhgrPoVv
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18. 1960: Psyco
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the
film:
Technology: Audience appeal
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Joseph Stefano
Robert Bloch
Production
company:
Shamley
Productions
Runtime: 109
minuites.
Certificate:
Released: 8
september 1960
• A Secretary steals
40,000 from her
employers client.
• She then goes on the
run.
• She checks into a motel
in a remote area.
• This motel is run by a
young man under the
domination of his mother.
• There is a clear binary
opposition between good
vs. evil.
Normon Bates:
Anthony Perkins
Lila Crane: Vera
Miles
Sam Loomis: John
Garvis
Marion Crane:
Janet leigh
Det. Milton
Arbogast: Martin
Balsam.
There are
ideologies
presented about
mental illness.
These ideologies
haven’t been
mentioned before in
a film. This is as
there was a social
undercurrent of
mental illness in the
1960’s.
Sound:
Mono (Westrex
Recording System)
Colour: Black and
White
Due to this
controversial issue
of mental illness – it
made the film
appeal to a mass
target audience.
This is as it would
have entertained
the audience as this
had never been
done before. This
demonstrates uses
and gratification
theory.
20. Night of the living dead (1968)
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the film: Technology: Audience appeal
Director:
George A. Romero
Writers:
John A. Russa, George
A. Romero.
Production company:
Image Ten, Leurel
Group, Market Square
Productions.
Certificate:
15
Runtime:
1 October 1968
There are a group of
people who have to hide
in a farmhouse as there
are bloodthirsty zombies
outside.
There is a stark binary
opposition between
good vs. evil.
This is a common
convention of the horror
genre.
This means it is
successful in its genre
and making the
audience feel ‘scared’.
Ben: Duane Jones
Barbra: Judith O’Dea
Harry:
Karl Hardman.
The setting has got a lot
of versimilartude. This
means that it would be
relatively low budget to
film at.
Colour: Black and White
Sound: Mono
The audience of the time
would be interested in
this film because of the
linear narrative. This
means that the audience
of the time would be
able to follow easily as it
isnt too demanding.
Also, the element of
‘zombies’ would interest
most audience. This
makes it appeal to a
mass target audience.
This will make the film
more succesfull
21. Night of the living Dead
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
_f2Enn8x5s
22. 1973: The exorcist
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the
film:
Technology: Audience appeal
Director:
William Friedkin
Writer:
William Peter Blatty
Production
company:
Warner Bros
Hoya Productions
Certificate:
(Banned)
Release Date:
16 March 1974
• A teenage girl is
possesd by an external
force.
• Her mother is worried
about her so seeks
help from two priests in
an attempt to save her
daughter.
• There are binary
oppositions within the
daughter (the force
that’s possesing her
vs. the real her) good
vs. evil.
Chris MacNeil:
Ellen Burstyn
Father Merrin: Max
Von Sydow.
Lt. William
Kinderman:
Lee J cobb.
Sharon Spencer:
Kitty Winn
Colour:
In colour
(Metrocolour)
Sound: (origional
release) Mono.
There is fake blood
and prosthetics
used in the film to
create the
‘possesd’ look.
This appeals to the
target audience as
this type narrative
has never been
written before with
the ideologies of
posession.
It has a religious
undercurrent of the
priest and
possesion by an
external force. As
people were still
quite reiligious it
would appeal to
them
24. 1979: Alien
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the film: Technology: Audience appeal
Directors: Ridley
Scott
Writers: Dan
O’Bannon, Ronald
Shusett.
Production
Company:
Brandywine
Productions,
Twentieth Century-
fox Productions.
Certificate:
X
Release Date:
1 November 1979
• The vessel Nostromo
receieves a distress call
from an unidentified planet.
• They search for survivers
and there are none
• On their way back they
realise that a deadly
bioform has joined them
• There is clear binary
oppositions – good vs. evil
• This is a clear horror
convention
• This means that it appeals
to a mass target audience.
Dallas: Tom Skerritt
Ripley: Sigourney
Weaver.
Lambert:
Veronica Cartwright.
Brett: Harry Dean
Stanton
Kane: John Hurt.
Colour: In colour
Sound: Dolby (as Dolby
Stereo)
There are more smooth
transitions from shot to
shot.
This is a progression
from the abrupt jump
cut previously used.
This is due to an
advance in technology
which allowed there to
be these kinds of
transitions.
The budget was higher
for this film as it is set in
space so special sets
would have to be made
and the creation of the
alien in the narrative
would have to be
produced.
This would appeal to
the audience as it
shows a clear advance
in technology from
previously.
This is due to the
transitions becoming
more smooth and there
being a higher
production value. this
would be there unique
selling point.
This would make it
appeal to a mass target
audience. Therefore be
a successful film.
26. 1980’s: A nightmare on Elm Street
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the
film:
Technology: Audience appeal
Director:
Wes Craven
Writer:
Wes Craver
Production company:
New line cinema,
Media home
Entertainment, Smart
Egg Pictures
Certificate:
18
Release date:
16 November 1984
• A child murderer
stalks his victims in
there dreams.
• His victims were the
members of the lynch
mob that tried to kill
him.
Lt Donald Thompson:
John Saxon
Marge Thompson:
Ronee Blackley
Nancy Thompson:
Heather Langenkamp
Christina ‘Tina’ Gray :
Amanda Wyss.
Colour:
Colour
Sound: Mono
There is tense
soundtracks in the
film. In the opening
scene there is
ambient tense sound.
It sounds like a piano
key being played.
However, it has been
built up and added in
with special software.
This is a progression
from the first horror
movie ever made
(Nosferatu) where the
music is purely
instrumental.
This would have
appealed to the
audience of the time
as the narrative that is
contructed is diverse.
This would have
made it stand out from
the other films and
thus make it more
succesful.
27. A Nightmare on Elm street
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn_DjzN8
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28. Friday the 13th (1980)
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the film: Technology: Audience appeal
Director: Sean S
Cunnigham
Writers:
Victor Miller
Sean S. Cunninham.
Production company:
Paramount Pictures,
Georgetown Productions
Inc. Sean C. cunninham
Films.
Certificate:
X
Release Date: 9 May
1980
• Camp courselors
are beginning to be
stalked and killed by
unknown murderer..
• there as clear
binary oppositon
between good vs.
evil.
• This is a common
horror convention.
• This means it is
successful in its
genre.
Lt Donald Thompson:
John Saxon
Marge Thompson:
Ronee Blakley
Nancy Thompson:
Heather Langenkamp
Colour: in Colour
Sound: Mono
This would have
appealed to the
audience of the time as
the narrative that is
contructed is diverse.
This would have made it
stand out from the other
films and thus make it
more succesful.
30. Scream: 1998
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the
film:
Technology: Audience appeal
Director: Wes
Craven
Writer:
Kevin
Williamson
Production
Company:
Dimension
Films, Konrad
Pictures,
Craven
Maddelena
Films
Certificate:
18
Release
Date:
1 May 1998
• A killer known as ghost face
begins to kill teenagers.
• there as clear binary
oppositon between good vs.
evil.
• This is a common horror
convention.
• This means it is successful
in its genre.
Maureen: Jada Pinkett
Smith
Phil: Omar Epps
Colour: In Colour
Sound: Dolby Digital
This would have
appealed to the
audience of the time as
the narrative that is
contructed is diverse.
This would have made
it stand out from the
other films and thus
make it more
succesful.
32. Dead Alive: (1992).
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the
film:
Technology: Audience appeal
Director:
Peter Jackson
Writers:
Stephen
Sinclair
Fran Walsh
Production
company:
WingNut Films,
New zealand
Film
Commission,
Avalon/NFU
Studios
Certificate:
18
Release Date:
14 May 1993
• There is a young
man's mother who is
bitten by a Sumatran
rat-monkey.
• She gets ill and
dies, However, she
comes back to life,
killing and eating
dogs, nurses,
friends, and
neighbours.
• Binary oppositions
theory.
Lionel Cosgrove:
Timothy Balme
Paquita Maria
Sanchez: Diana
Penalver
Mum:
Elizabeth Moody.
Uncle les: Ian
Watkin
Nurse McTavish:
Brenda Kendall
Father McGruder:
Stuart Devenie.
Colour: In colour
Sound: Dolby
Stereo
The audience of the
time would be
interested in this film
because of the linear
narrative. This
means that the
audience of the time
would be able to
follow easily as it isnt
too demanding.
34. 2000: Final Destination
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the
film:
Technology: Audience appeal
Direction: James
Wong
Writers: Glen
Morgan
James Wong
Production
company:
New line
Cinema,
Zide- Perry
Productions,
Hard Eight
Pictures.
Certificate:
15
Release Date:
19 May 2000
• A teenager has a
premonition that
him and his friends
are going to die.
• Death hunts him
down
• Binary oppistions of
good vs evil.
• Evil being death
Alex Browning:
Devon Sawa
Clear Rivers: Ali
Larter
Carter Horton: Kerr
Smith.
Valerie Lewton:
Kristen Cloke.
Agent Weine: Daniel
Roebuck.
Colour: In colour
Sound: DTS, Dolby
Digital, SDDS.
Unique perspective
of death being evil.
This will entertain
the audience – this
demonstrates uses
and gratification
theory.
36. American psycho
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the film: Technology: Audience appeal
Director: Mary Harron
Writers: Bret Easten
Ellis, Mary Harron.
Production Company:
Am Psycho
Productions, Edward R.
Pressman Film, Lions
Gate Films.
Certificate:
18
Release Date: 21 April
2000
• There is a wealthy
new york banking
executive who
hides his mental
illness.
• He slips further into
his physcotic
fantasies.
Patrick Bateman:
Christian Bale
Timothy Bryce: Justin
Theroux
Craig McDermott: Josh
Lucas.
David Van Patten: Bill
Sage.
Jean: Chloe Savigny
Colour: colour
Sound: Dolby Digital.
This will apeal to the
target audience there
has previously beeen
‘physco’ this means
that fans of this will
watch this too as it is a
modern day remake.
This is as there has
been an advance in
technology.
38. Insidious (2010)
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the film: Technology: Audience appeal
Director:
James Wan
Writer:
Leigh Whannell
Release Date:
29 April 2011
Production company:
Alliance Films, IM
Global, Haunted Movies
Certificate:
15
• A family tries to
prevent evil spirits
from trapping their
child.
Josh Lambert: Patrick
Wilson
Renai Lambert: Rose
Byrne
Dalton Lambert: Ty
Simpkins
Elise Rainer: Lin Shaye
Specs: Leigh Whannell
Sound: SDDS, Dolby
Digital
Colour: In colour.
The advance in
technology means that
it will make it seem
more real and thus
terrifying to the
audience. This will
make it more
entertaining for the
audience. This
demonstrates uses and
gratification theory.
40. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Production
information:
Plot outline: Characters in the film: Technology: Audience appeal
Director:
Samuel Bayer.
Writer: Wesley Strick
Eric Heisserer
Release Date:
7 May 2010
Production company:
New line Cinema,
Platinum Dunes.
• A serail killer begins
to kill people in their
dreams.
Freddy Krueger: Jackie
Earle Haley
Quentin Smith: Kyle
Gallner
Nancy Holbrook:
Rooney Mara.
Kris Fowles: Katie
Cassidy
Jesse Braun: Thomas
Dekker
Dean Russell: Kellan
lutz.
Colour: In colour
Sound: Dolby Digital,
DTS, SDDS.
This is a remake of the
earlier version thus
meaning that fans of the
previous one would
watche it. this makes it
appeal to a mas
audience.
41. A night on elm street (2010)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISzAuk-
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