Titles
The first titles you see are the New Line Cinema titles, there is nothing different about the usual New Line Cinema title they usually show. This title is from 0 - 6 seconds. The next title you see is a piece of skin covering the whole of the screen, a cut across the middle appears, with blood dripping out of it. Then in quick succession many other cuts all over the screen appear. And then soon after that the skin falls in chunks into the background. Some of which fall into the middle to create a blood red New Line cinema, this then starts to liquidize and it looks like it turns into blood. It falls towards the screen, covering it and turing it black. It then cleverly wipes off to reveal another layer of skin which blood is thrown on from the left. Once the blood has settled on the wall of skin, the title of the film then raises forward. A large cut appears down the middle and the two sides fold out respectively. This is quite a good title scene as it involves many clever effects and gives the audience all the relevant information and also clearly lets them know that the film is a Horror.
First 2 Minute Analysis
The first 2 minutes of Freddy vs Jason starts of with the first title then cuts too a scene set in a basement like area. The camera is slowly panning the scene, it passes a red furnace which is lit, the light coming from this is almost reaching out grabbing the camera, you then see the door be opened very quickly by a hand, and what looks like a doll is thrown into it. The door is then slammed shut. The way the hand comes from beneath the camera almost makes it feel like a Point of View shot. The shot changes to a young girl, clearly scared looking at the camera. It then flicks to a long shot of a man sharpening something metal on a grinder. You hear a deep mans voice talking, he says "My children". This is very weird and is used to help scare the audience. I flicks to a closer shot of the man sharpening something, and it appears to be claws of some kind. It then shows a close up of the doll burning, the doll looks like the girl you saw, making the audience assume that this man is going to do what he did to the doll, but to the girl. It then shows the man turning around with a claw on his finger while the voice says how he is called the "Spring wood Slasher". You see thee girl backed up against the wall, the camera looks down on her, showing how weak she is. Then a tall featureless shadow is seen on the wall. You see the shadows hand move up in an aggressive manner and claws come out of the fingers. All of this suggests to the audience that something is about to happen. The little girl seems to kneel down in front of this man, the camera the flicking to the doll which is completely melted now, suggesting the action is about to start and you hear a girls scream in the background. This makes the audience assume that the man has killed the girl. This is scary as the weapon is something the audience has never seen before and you do not see the killing happen, allowing the audiences imagination to vision it. The camera then shows a man with a cigarette and a picture. He seems to be stroking the picture, when people do this it usually shows there love for the person or object in the picture. He then turns the picture over allowing the audience to see it is a young girl, the audience doesn't assume that this is his daughter due to what just happened with the other girl, but another victim of his. It then shows a close up of the mans face, he looks wantingly at the picture and licks the back. this is very scary as it is something people don't usually do and you assume that he is a sick and twisted killer. He then puts the picture in a book of children's photos, the viewer assumes that the other pictures you can see are other victims, the book itself is about half way open, suggesting that he has killed many. When it shows the photo album you hear him say "My rein of terror, was legendary. Dozens of children would fall by my blade." This is creepy as it is like the killer is telling the audience the story. You then see a extreme close up of the killers face, allowing you to see teh little emotion and then he laughs, as if his killings are a game. You then hear him telling more of the story, he says about how the parents came for him. While he is saying this you see a woman light a molotov cocktail and through it through a window, from what he is saying, you assume that the window is that of his lair. You see many people watching as the building goes up in flames. A news story is seen burning, maybe suggesting the end of the killings. The voice then says about after they killed him, they created something worse. Then a face is panned onto shot, the face itself is disfigured and disgusting. You see the face moving as you hear him talking, suggesting it is him talking. From hear you now assume the killer is talking about his past to you. You then see some bloody hands, strung up like a puppet and then also some feet. You then see a large tower with a scarred man, who you assume is the killer has his claws up as if he's puppeteering then slices this fingers and a boy jumps out of the window, this suggests to the viewer that the killer is no longer in a psychical state but a mental one, this is scary as there is no apparent way to kill or capture him. A girl then wakes up as this happens, suggesting to the viewer that he is in your dreams. You see his face and then it pans to his stomach, you see him rip off his T-shirt and you see tiny mouths suggesting that he either absorbs his kills or feeds off them. You then see a boy get pulled seemingly through his mattress into a hole and lots of blood come flying back up through the whole, making the audience believe he is dead. You then see some skin, like the titles I reviewed earlier this post, is cut in half and his face comes through it towards the camera. It then pans out and you realise the skin was a boys stomach and the killer, walks out of it, killing the boy. You then see the killer jump out of a bath and then drag a girl into it, you guess that he is going to drown her, and then you see a girl being eaten by a slug which has the face of the killer on it. The first two minutes ends here. Overall the first two minutes of this film is very different to normal horror movie starts as it almost seems like a trailer the way it quickly flicks from shot to shot. But it is good as it helps explain to the audience who he is and a basic story line, but it doesn't seem to catch the eye of the viewer and makes them want to watch it as the action is too quick for the viewer to get interested in.
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