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Monday, 13 December 2010

Unit 3 - Influence Maps 2

Twisted Style Influence Map

A style that would go great with anything that will give off an eerie feeling.

Chair Influence Map

Decided to do a modern type chair to give the room a eerie type feeling. Using chairs that are not modern seems to give the room something else than eerie.

Directed by Roman Polanski, the director of the movie called Rosemary's Baby. Trelkovsky rented an apartment in France where the previous tenant commited suicide and now is in hospital. He starts to begin suspicion, thinking that the neighbours are trying to get him to commit suicide also.

Polanski, Roman. 1976. Image Still. http://www.cinemastrikesback.com/news/new%20dailies/theTenant2-1024.jpg (Accessed on 13th December 2010)

The whole film basically shows at the time is that people who are close to the previous tenant that caused suicide, shows it will happen again to another person who will rent the room where it all happened. Same with Rosemary's Baby however, the difference is that it doesn't involve suicide with the main character but it features those who worship Satan who live in apartments in the same building.

Polanski, Roman. 1976. Image Still. http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lax9j0ap6y1qzoytlo1_500.jpg (Accessed on 13th December 2010)

Monaco, Alessandro. The Tenant. http://www.hellopigments.com/pics/r_02.png (Accessed on 13th December 2010)

Yet again, this film also features maddness when the main character starts seeing events that are happening only to them and no one else. Rosemay's Baby was like that, but trying to ask someone for help, they thought she was crazy. The neighbours knew about it but pretended that they didn't at all. The Tenant, it was different. The main character went into maddness when seeing things that the previous tenant does and gets in her daily life and also the events she had before committed suicide.

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Unit 3 - Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Directed by Roman Polanski. A couple moves into a new apartment with friendly neighbours. Later, Rosemary becomes pregnant and being protective of her unborn child, she faces many events happening in her life.

The film shows the main character going into madness like those in the films, The Haunting, Repulsion, and The Tenant. Maddness was caused by seeing something that doesn't fit anywhere in the puzzle. For example, Rosemary started to get suspicious by the drugs, food and drinks that she was given by her neighbour as it was giving her a strange effect.

(Polanski, Roman. 1968. Image Still. http://roberthorton.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/rosemary31.jpg (10 December 2010))

What really amazes me in this film is that it shows the instinct of a female, making sure of her unborn child's safety by making sure she gets the right vitimins and minerals for her child's health.

"Mia Farrow plays an innocent, naive woman, who mature's overnight, in lieu of her motherly instinct in reaction to losing her child."
(TheTwistedLiver; 2003)

(Polanski, Roman. 1968. Image Still. http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/polanski/images/enlarged/bfi-00m-ysf.jpg (10 December 2010))

The amusing part in the film was when Rosemary locked the front door to the apartment to not let the neightbours and her husband in, thinking that they want her child. However, what she hasn't noticed that they came through another door, placed in a storage room that the previous owner who lived in the apartment before her death, blocked it off with a cabinet.

(Polanski, Roman. 1968. Image Still. http://www.onepagewonder.com/rosemarys_baby.jpg (10 December 2010))

In overall, this film shows what it's like to be in the eyes of a pregnant woman, in need to protect her unborn child from those who worship Satan, but what she calls them are Witches.

Monday, 6 December 2010

Unit 3 - Influence Maps 1

Poker Table Influence Map

Gravestone Influence Map

Empty Room Influence Map

Alley Way Influence Map

Unit 3 - The Haunting (1963)

Directed by Robert Wise. The environment chosen to create this film was fanastic enough to give off a creepy feeling that makes you curious what's around the corner. The effects used on the door to look like it was pushing itself out from the center was absolutely brillant. It's like it is breathing like a normal human being.

(Wise, Robert. 1963. Still Image. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/danolson/Blog%20stuff/door.jpg (10th December 2010))

No horror movie like this would have ever done that in the 1960's. The sound effects were spot on to get a cold chill down any viewer watching this. I may seen the remake of this film in the 1990's but this made me excited, making me feel like watching it all over again. I have seen many horror films but this gives out something to screem about. Horror movies these days lack this to make the viewer curious before getting a fright of their lives.

"I was alone in the house, very late at night. Every sound amplified.. I was a full grown woman. For Pete's sake, I have watched almost every monster movie made. Even the original "Wolfman." Hummm, I could handle this.

Wrong! I have never been so frightened in my life. Who or What was holding her hand??..."

(Wise, Robert. 1963. Still Image. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmEsOKyfk_ZbsuPCLhy7-OErSnRPIP24Q7poj44ScIxTv2LRIV2tEUf3t-zcI-t9AQK0s7y5qo8nOEz8sE7D3JRsvX2k48pfU-ejxJtH7u_yHiyMfQprwFbvzGVM_bk5Pyq4BTQDFoIhFW/s400/The+Haunting.jpg (10th December 2010))

(Wise, Robert. 1963. Still Image. http://hollywoodlostandfound.net/pictures/films/haunting/haunting1.jpg (10th December 2010))

If horror films were made like this has been, I will watch them all just to scare myself out of my very own skin. The area they picked to create this film was a good one. The mansion gave off every eery feeling that it had to offer, I am not sure if the remake used the same area but who cares. The first movie is always the best than those who remake it.