Movie Research: "The Conjuring"

 Moving to a new house can be challenging. Especially when it's in the middle of nowhere, and most likely cursed. A movie based on a true story about a haunted house, a demon possession, and an exorcism. 

What conventions of the Genre that you choose to base your final task on does this movie have? Dark settings with history: The house used to provide the background, to explain the reason for the curse, is located in the Woodlands, which is a popular place for a house to be located to add a mystery vibe. 

Jump scare: With many sudden appearances and jumps at the main protagonists, it startles the audience every time. Mixed in the slow coming of eerie music and off sounds, leading to a bit of quietness and then the scare.

Psychological horror: As in the part where the little girl who is sleeping gets dragged off the bed by something pulling her feet, even though there's nothing there. And then tells her sister who gets up to check that there's something behind her that she can't see.

What conventions of the genre did the movie have that you liked?
My favorite convention included in this movie is the psychological horror. It's so intriguing how as events occur, they keep piling up in your brain and making you worse. As the mom, who kept gaining bruises and losing her strength. She began to act weirdly and became dangerous for her own children. But she didn't know all that she was doing.

What conventions of the genre did the movie have that did not appeal to you and you are thinking of not filming for your final task.
The jump scares are part not necessarily important. Even though it's the most basic term and makeup of a horror movie, jumpscares do add a special effect to captivating the audience and catching them off guard, but it's better to keep on adding till the final reveal. It's better to just create suspense with the cut-off scenes instead of scaring the audience.

- Monica M.


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