![]() The subject can only move forward, which makes us believe what becomes of them is somehow preordained. So we feel like the subject of the shot, enclosed in a linear direction. The screen is so wide but the entire shot is walled in. The lines of the corridor bring us to a focal point. You see that a lot in the Shining but in 2001: A Space Odyssey you see it as well. Plus Kubrick loves long narrow corridors. Kubrick made everyone feel like their was no way out. Every shot was a narrow corner or an enclosed room. ![]() What made the shining so good? Gee I don’t know Stanley Kubrick? Jack Nicolson at his finest? Well, yes that is all true but I want to talk about the interior shots. ![]() It can be done with nuance and grace if you use visual story telling to evoke the feeling of entrapment. However, just because this is done often doesn’t mean it can’t be done well. Hallways and and secluded spaces are key to making us, as audience members, feel this way. That being said, I wanted to take time this week to talk about something I find a lot of horror films do they make the audience feel claustrophobic. A horror film has to do more than just scare you, it also needs to be an intriguing work of art. Despite this, I think that there are horror films that are worth talking about. Now, when I say cheap, I don’t mean that the films themselves are low budget I simply mean that they use cheap tactics to “scare” us. I really have to psych myself up to watch a horror film. This may have contributed to the long gap between weeks as well. I, personally, am not a huge fan of the horror genre simply because I find it to be cheap most of the time. But seriously, milkshakes at breakfast, condescending waitresses, and bad egg-based puns aside, we are supposed to be talking about movies.Īs Halloween approaches, I thought it would be prudent of me to write something horror related. Unless they are on top of, or embedded inside, waffles, they can get out of my brunch. Vegitibles have so little place at brunch that I won’t even bother spelling the word right. A time to be slightly (or heavily) hungover and order a bloody marry with a strip of bacon (and a cheeseburger) replacing the piece of celery.īefore you raise your brow in judgement, let me say this about those fiber-heavy things that sprout from the dirt and their place on the brunch plate–or, even the brunch drink.
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