2. Purpose of the Horror
Genre
• The purpose of the Horror Genre is to frighten its
audience by targeting their nightmares, hidden fears,
fear of the unknown and revulsions.
14. One Successful OTS
• One of the most analysed opening title sequences was
the OTS for the psychological horror film Se7en.
• This was because the unprecedented amount of detail
included in the OTS was very rare 20 years ago.
15. Terrified
• This OTS was successful as the makers of the film used the distorted, non-
diegetic sound at the start of the sequence.
• This was done to make the audience feel uncomfortable and scared.This
follows the aim of horror films: to frighten its audience.
• Another technique they used was the voice over of laughter when the camera
is setting the scene.The laugh creates a sense of fear to the audience as they
feel something bad is happening off screen.
• This raises the narrative enigma: what is happening that we cannot see?
16. Terrified
• In the title sequence, the background behind the text is black.The colour
black is a generic convention of the horror genre as it signifies danger or
death.
• Because the makers used black after the audience has witnessed a murder makes
them more unnerving because the audience have the initial shock of a murder at
the start of the film.
17. Summary
• To summarise the horror genre:
• It contains many sub-genres which has sub-genres within them so
there’s a big variety of types of horror films.
• The intentions of horror films is to scare the audience by playing with
their fears and making them feel uncomfortable.
• Horror films would accomplish this by using weapons, blood, murder,
using red and black with low key lighting to take the viewers out of
their comfort zone.
