'Shower Scene'

This week I analysed the shower scene from 'Carrie' the famous 1976 horror/thriller which was directed by Brian De Palma a very successful and well known director who also directed the classic films 'Scarface' and 'The Untouchables'. From closley watching the tiny snippet of Carrie it demonstrated how much De Palama appreciated Hitchcock's work as the scene where Carrie the main character is in the shower mirrors the scene of when Marion was in the shower in Psycho (1960).

The Beginning of my Horror Journey

So over the past two weeks I have been closely anaylsing the great work of Vladimir Propp who was a Russian formalist scholar who created a theory that in every story there is eight character types: -The hero -The Villian -The donor -The dispatcher -The false hero -The helper -The princess -Her father After closely analysing this theory I have come to the conclusion that this theory is even applicable to the horror film genre. What makes this theory so effcetive is that it treats the characters as functions who's roles are to make the narrative what it is. I will be posting a powerpoint showing the connection between this theory and the film 'Silent Hill'.