Tuesday 26 February 2013

Top 10 Horror Films


1.       The Exorcist (1973)
When a girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

2.       The Shining (1980) A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

3.       Jaws (1975)
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.

4.       Halloween (1978)
A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.

5.       Psycho (1960)
A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.

6.       Frankenstein (1931)
Horror classic in which an obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses

7.       The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Five friends visiting their grandpa's old house are hunted down and terrorized by a chainsaw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.

8.       Night of the Living Dead (1968)
A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.

9.       The Sixth Sense (1999)
A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist

10.   The Birds (1963)
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness





When watching Psycho we found some shots that we liked and would try to re-create in our own film. These are the shots that we took small things from to make our film as effective as possible

Horror film - screen shots

These a screen shots from two different horror films, the top left, The Grudge, this along with the other screen shot from paranormal activity are both iconic images from the films.