The Shining
The narrative structure of the Shining is in a liner convention of most apart form were  the main character Jack Torrance has a flash back in the gold room. also there are maguffin in odd places these are used to make the viewer think what the hell and go away from the main plot. Then they go back to the plot and forget they saw the random object or scene. They also use exposition alot in the forms of monologe with jack. 

The Wicker Man
Synopsis

Sergeant Neil Howie of the West Highlands Constabulary receives a photograph and an anonymous letter reporting the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl called Rowan Morrison, on a nearby island "Summerisle". Resolving to investigate, he travels to the private island in his sea-plane. When he lands, the harbor-master insists that Howie gets permission from Lord Summerisle. The islanders on the shore do not recognise Rowan from Howie's photograph, but direct him to May Morrison at the post office. There he meets May's actual daughter Myrtle, but when he asks her about Rowan, the girl will only say that Rowan is a hare who plays in the fields.

He then goes to the islands inn "The Green Man inn", landlord Alder MacGregor offers Howie a room and asks his daughter Willow to look after the policeman. While the locals sing about Willow's charms, Howie examines some harvest festival photographs and notes that the previous year's photograph is missing. Willow gives Howie a supper of canned food and, when he asks for one of Summerisle's famous apples, tells him they have all been exported. That night outside his window, Howie sees Lord Summerisle presenting a young boy to Willow for sexual initiation. He tries to pray but is distracted by the sound of noisy sexual intercourse.

The next morning, Howie visits the island's school. The children claim not to know Rowan, but Howie finds her name in the register and accuses them of being liars. Taking him outside, the schoolmistress explains that Rowan's soul has returned to nature and that the children only learn of Christianity as a comparative religion. By a ruined kirk, he finds what is apparently Rowan's grave, adorned with her umbilical cord. From the island's doctor, Howie learns that Rowan burnt to death, but can find no entry for her at the records office.

Howie visits Lord Summerisle, who grants him permission to dig up Rowan's body. When the policeman expresses disgust at a fertility ritual being performed in the grounds, Summerisle explains that his agronomist grandfather bought the island for its soil and climate, in order to grow new strains of fruit. By way of motivating the islanders, he reintroduced them to the Old Gods of nature and fertility, and soon the island's apple harvest made it prosperous.

Howie returns to the kirk and opens Rowan's grave, but finds only the body of a hare. He accuses Summerisle and the islanders of murder, threatening to return the next day with more police from the mainland. Howie breaks into the chemist's and discovers the previous year's harvest festival photograph, which shows Rowan Morrison and Summerisle's failed crop. He speculates that she may not be dead, and will be sacrificed at the May Day celebrations the next day. That night, Willow sings to Howie through his bedroom wall and Howie presses up against it, tormented.

The next day, Howie finds his sea-plane will not start and is told he cannot return to the mainland for over a week. He researches fertility rituals and processions at the library, as the islanders prepare their costumes. Howie conducts a fruitless door-to-door search for Rowan, eventually returning to The Green Man to rest. After avoiding an attempt to drug him, Howie attacks MacGregor and steals his Punch costume.

As the procession begins, Summerisle teases MacGregor (really the disguised Howie) for his poor dancing. There is a mock execution by swordsmen of an islander dressed as a hare. Eventually the procession arrives at the shore and Summerisle offers a sacrifice of ale to the gods of the sea. Howie spots Rowan dressed in white and grabs her. They escape into a cave, emerging on the cliff-top, only to be greeted by Summerisle and the islanders. Howie realises he has been tricked. Summerisle explains that he, not Rowan, is the perfect sacrifice, having come of his own free will, with the power of the king; a virgin and a fool. Howie appeals to the islanders, insisting that his death will not save their crops, but he is stripped, anointed, and placed screaming inside a huge, hollow wicker effigy of a man atop the cliffs. As he prays, the pyre is lit and the islanders begin to sing.

I feel this movie is a bit like The House of Usher that the person in charge (in this case lord summerisle) is slowly going mental and is poisoning the minds of all the islanders. We also find this in The House of Usher with Roderick Madeline's brother who goes mental and kills his sister with mind games. 

I think this is more of a mistory murder horror and tha it does just fit into the horror genre but just scrapes in to this genre. 

The Witch Finder General 

It was made in 1968 by a UK company Tigon films  and was directed by Michael Reeves. when it was released it was called "The conqueror worm" this is due to a poem called "The conqueror worm" by written Edger Allen Poe. When the film was released it was the end of the hippie era. Anti-authority was destroying many lives and towns so this was a good way to rebuild bridges in the UK, and why we shouldn't put up with random acts of violence.

When the film was released the BBFC (British board of film censorship now known as the British board of film certificates) censored allot of the scenes and the length of the screams. Were as nowadays they put certificates on them. 

The lead roll was given to Vincent Price. But first off the film writers wanted another man to play the roll but due to the change in actor they needed to re-write the script to fit Vincent Price. 

  

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Fall of the House of Usher is of a deluded man who poisoned his sisters mind to make her think she was dyeing. when she went to university she met a man he then came to take her to be wed but her brother would not let her go. then strange things start in the old Victorian house. 

We can tell it is of the horror genre by the fact that in the opening sequence there is a lonely rider riding  through trees. the camera is staying behind the trees so it looks as though he is be stalk by something evil. also it is set in a old Victorian house that is very cliche'.

The film was written by Edger Allen Poe in 1839and made by AIP (American International Pictures) (turned in to metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)  and they used Roger Corman as the director. They did this to make money due to the audience knowing that Corman is good at changing Poe's novels into films 

The need of the audience was to get enjoyment out of the suspense and thrill of being left in the larch. This makes for adrenalin so the body get excited. I feel that if the audience were quite into the mind games this would be a very strong movie for them to watch. Also around the time faith was a strong part of the normal life, due to this it would have a strong influence on what people saw in the movie and the write and wrongs. Because of all this the film producers new tht all this would malke alot of money.

Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The franchise of Frankenstein has changed hugely in the times from James Whale - 1935 to Kenneth Branagh -1994. These are just a fuw i will go into more detailfurther in.

1. more money spent on the films
   
2. Better technology (color)
   
3. Lighter cameras so that the camera men can get better shots so the audience are more involved.
   
4. viewers expectations change so part of the genre change
   
5. The monster was more human in Mary Shelley's then the original movies. This is due to
   the horror genre changing over a period of time. Also Mary Shelley never put a picture of the monster in the book.

This film fits into many genres the main being horror. I can tell this from part of the a scene were the monster rips Elizabeth's hart out. You see all of it and the hart is still pumping. This is a very strong point that horror is a large part of this movie. Period drama this i can also tell by the cos tums the place it was sett. It was also a romantic film were the two main characters that are in love never manage to be together.(star cross lovers) 

The franchise of Frankenstein changed since the time of Branagh’s. This is due to the fact that the science of the day had moved on and that the equipment evaluable was more maneuverable to get the better shots. This all makes the film look alot different including it being in colour. 

As the horror scene has moved on our anxiety for being scared is biger then the people of the day so from a modern point of view it is not scary at all. Due to technology moving on now we can make creatures that do not exist using computer programes. I feel that in this movie i feel more sorry for the monser then the one in Branagh’s version of the book. Having read the book befor seeing the films it gave me more of an idea what they were to be about, but it never changed my expectations of the movie.

The Bride of Frankenstein

It fits in the genre of horror in many ways:

1. Dead bodies
2. Mises on scene such as Smokey graveyards. The monsters face (invented by Universal due to the writer Mary Shelly not drawing a picture of the monster this then became the iconography when we think of Frankenstein.)
3. Screaming
4. Gorey parts (When the monster rips Elizabeth's hart out)
5. strange scientific experiments (that have things to do with the science of the day) going wrong

The Producers
Universal
There was a rescission
the movie industry was going bust so they all decided to go separate ways, one company will do comedy one will do horror (universal).

In a modern perspective the film would not do that well. This is due to it being less thrilling then a more modern film. But in the 1930's i can see why it would be quite terrifying. Also at the time the science was a large part of there lives and their was a large amount of scientist trying to make life last forever. So this film corresponds with this and this is what made people scared.
Furthermore this makes people enjoy the film more by scaring them witch is the thrill they went for.

The benefit the horror genre had with the producers was the horror was a big seller around that time so they can make allot of money.