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1. Research unit 12

2. Phycological/suspense thrillers.
The subject I believe I can talk most about and include quotes and apply my
own knowledge to is the genre of film, Phycological thrillers, they are made to
keep the audience on edge and the tension is built up throughout the film with
a huge reveal/ twist usually.

3. Research
Joel & Ethan Coen
David Fincher Denis Villeneuve
Christopher Nolan
Alfonso Cuarón
In the phsycological/suspense thriller genre, these are a few directors working today that are
revolutionising the way these sorts of films are being made. I think the most effective directors that use
suspense and tension as one of their main techniques are David Fincher and Dennis Villeneuve. David
Fincher, most notible for fight club and seven leads the way in this genre of film. His cinematography,
specific camera movements and suspense all are used to create a film that provides an intersting (normally
crime driven) story that is built up with tension throughout the film. David Fincher has a specific camera
movement he uses in most shots and films of his, the eyeline of the shot is kept the same, the person moves,
the camera is moving when the characters eyes are moving. In a way, he hijacks your eyes and attention, in
0ther movies, during tense charcter scenes the camera could be anywhere, and the centre of shot could be
anything, however, keeping the eyeline makes you see things the way the charcters do, it gives the audince
more of a connection with them. This comes into factor when, again, during a tense scene if the protagonist
is in danger, you feel the danger with them, you are attached to the character.

4. DAVID FINCHER
David fincher is one of the leading directors in thrillers and mystery films, the
movies leave you wanting more.

5. Imagery in thrillers- Enemy and spiders-Denis Villeneuve
One of the most shocking moments in cinema history is the spider scenes from Enemy(2014). The film is set out to be a psychological drama/thriller,
there is spider imagery throughout the film like webs shown in cracks in windows and tram lines that are at an angle to look like webs. But the most
horrific scenes include giant spiders that are most likely metaphorical and a figment of Jake Gyllenhaal's characters imagination and delusions. At the
end of the film, Jakes teaching character (because there are two of him in the movie and that’s what the story is about, It’s a classic duality of man story)
walks into his apartment and his wife is seen getting of the shower and into their bedroom, he calls her name a couple times, walks over to the room, the
camera pans around to reveal a room-sized tarantula, this dreadful looking creature is supposedly a metaphor for how he sees his wife because he feels
trapped in a boring relationship and life basically in his downwards spiral of sanity. Overall, the spiders are symbolic of his wife and mother, the way he
is controlled, and the way Gyllenhaal's character feels trapped in these relationships.

6. Children of men
Alfonzo Curan
Children of men is set in a near dystopian future where the human race
becomes infertile and certain extinction is inevitable, until Clive Owens
character is put to the task of helping a pregnant woman to a safe place that
is not corrupted, like London is depicted as with its strict rules and
immigration camps.
Snowpiercer is
more far fetched,
although is
similar to
children of men
as it is a thriller
set in a
dystopian future

7. Mindhunter-David Fincher
One of David Fincher's most recent projects, alongside a lot of other creators,
is the Netflix original "Mindhunter". The name of the book, published by who
the characters in the show are loosely based on, is also called Mindhunter:
Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, It follows Holden Ford and Bill
Trench as they interview "Serial Killers" to find out what their motives are, on
their journey they end up solving a few current cases which also helps them
with their study. They are part of the FBI's behavioral science unit tasked to
making what became the book "Mindhunter". As David Fincher is one of the
executive producers, his styling and directing is clearly reflected in this series.
His low-light, yellow tinted atmospheres can be spotted easily when watching
the series
other David fincher films
Mindhunter

8. Holden fords character who is
based on(loosely), John E Douglas,
the author of the real Mindhunter
book that revolutionized the way in
which people view serial killers
Bill Tench is also
(loosely) based on a real
person, Robert K.
Ressler who also
helped coined the term
serial killer.

9. Prisoners
Denis Villeneuve

10. Nightcrawler.
Dan Gilroy

11. Horror
Thrillers

12. James Wan
James wan is one of the leading directors in the modern horror genre today, his films are widley recognised as the defining scary movies of this day and
age. His 7 movie deep universe into the conjuring and annabelle series make good box office returns, the first movie in the series, The conjuring, based on
the amityville horror made a profit of $300 million US dollars, so the movies don’t have to be the best they just have to look good, provide a slight,
sometimes dense, sense of horror which has an engaging story and most importantly, cheap jump scares. In any james wan film, even in the first 15 mins,
you will be struck by a jump scare, the scare may not even contain anything scary, it literally is just put there to confuse you so when a jump scare that is
meant to be taken seriously is put there, you don’t know what to think. Although, if you have seen enough of them and know the cheap techniques Wan
uses, it's quite easy to predict the when the scares happen. I, personally dont really like the movis because of the predictability of the scare, and the fact
that i don’t really find them scary because of this, however, i can see why people like them and the fact they are origional and made by the same person
points to the fact this may be a sub-genre of film that has been previously unexplored.

13. Ari Aster
Ari Aster is the director of the 2018 horror film Hereditry, for
some, this is the most genuinely scary film they have seen in
years, it strives away from the sub-genre james wan has
created with his horror flicks over the last 20 years, like
insidious, conjuring, Annabelle (and their sequels). Hereditary
is more comparable to a Kubrick or Hitchcock film in the
sense that the horror is genuine, what you looking at
physically scares you, unlike most modern horror films where
the scare is merely from a jump scare.
Infamous head banging
shot that haunts the
viewer
in my opinion the levitating
shot was severely
frightening

14. These are just some
shots from scenes in
which true horror is
shown.
Possesion at school: most
possesions are depicted at
nighttime in recent and
especially pre millenuim
history and with some of the
scariest scenes are set in
broad daylight in supposedly
one of the safest places you
could be at, hereditary still
shows horror in this unlikely
situation.
One of the main story
devices is a decapitation of
the person on the right's
sister which is the most
realistic and terrorfying
depiction of an accidental
beheading that I have ever
seen.

15. Rosemaries baby

16. https://nofilmschool.com/2017/11/watch-what-david-fincher-can-show-you-about-soundtracks
Laura Turner. (2019). One important Mindhunter moment didn't actually happen in real life.Available:
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a28782790/mindhunter-true-story-holden-ford-anxiety/. Last accessed 12th Nov 2019.