Favourite Image Analysis

This is my favourite image analysis from the move The Descent (2005). I favour this image over many as I feel it presents a lot of the horror conventions that help to make a movie scary. The shot/scene is done in night vision; this immediately makes the whole thing a lot creepier, as it taps into one of the very famous phobias experienced by many, fear of the dark. The lighting and colour created by this helps the characters, in particular the monsters of the film, look a lot grubbier and horrible, connoting the deep ‘mess’ that they’ve gotten themselves into. The canted angle done by the camera gives an unsettling effect for the viewer to see. This unsettling effect helps prepare the audience for the jump scare that is then presented in the scene, making it far scarier. The image also includes both horror conventions of a monster, and also a female victim.