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Paranormal Activity (2009)
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
"What happens when you sleep?"
Paranornal Activity, a similar concept to A Blair Wtich Project and Cloverfield, all uses handhel cameras as to produce a sort of documentary feeling, which gives a more realistic sense and taste to the film. However, Paranormal Activity is based on a real life case study and being told it is "real life", people would definitely want to see this film and explore how scary this world is and what they might be missing.
It is very simple and basic, a couple filmed themselve due to the girlfriend, Katie, who have been having disturbing moments when she goes to sleep as if a ghost/demon is following her each night. Using the camera, they were able to film what is going on each night as they go to sleep and if there is actually something in the room or house that is haunting Katie and her life.
After hearing many stories about this film, with ongoing comments about how scary it is and how people screamed in the cinema, I, myself wanted to go and experiement the tension and excitment the audience had. To my surprise, it was a huge dissapointment and towards the end of the film I felt dizzy and sick due to the handheld camera and alot of moving around with the camera was going on, I couldn't bare it.
The film dragged on very long and it was in a very a slow pace, which slowly took my attention away and I wasn't focusing anymore, especially with the seasick feeling wasn't helping either. Throughout the film, creepy things would happen but only bits by bits, nothing major until the end, where it was the most scariest and jumpy out of the whole film. Other than that, there wasn't much tense built around the film.
The film was suppose to bring a full horror atmoshphere but instead, it felt more like a horror comical combined together as the main character Micah, was being a comdian throughout the film towards his girlfriend, Katie. The only part I look forward to during the film was the bedroom scene when they couples go to sleep. Firstly, because the camera is on a tripod so it was still and the other reason is, it is the only interesting part of the film as action and freaky-doing takes place. You'll see unknown shadow figures, door closing and opening, bedsheets being slide away and what freaks me out the most is when Katie gets drag away from her bed.
Overall, the film does contain spooky and freaky-doings that would totally give you the shiver. However, because of the long pause and unneccessary parts, the tension fades away before another disturbing image/prescene occured.
"What happens when you sleep?"
Paranornal Activity, a similar concept to A Blair Wtich Project and Cloverfield, all uses handhel cameras as to produce a sort of documentary feeling, which gives a more realistic sense and taste to the film. However, Paranormal Activity is based on a real life case study and being told it is "real life", people would definitely want to see this film and explore how scary this world is and what they might be missing.
It is very simple and basic, a couple filmed themselve due to the girlfriend, Katie, who have been having disturbing moments when she goes to sleep as if a ghost/demon is following her each night. Using the camera, they were able to film what is going on each night as they go to sleep and if there is actually something in the room or house that is haunting Katie and her life.
After hearing many stories about this film, with ongoing comments about how scary it is and how people screamed in the cinema, I, myself wanted to go and experiement the tension and excitment the audience had. To my surprise, it was a huge dissapointment and towards the end of the film I felt dizzy and sick due to the handheld camera and alot of moving around with the camera was going on, I couldn't bare it.
The film dragged on very long and it was in a very a slow pace, which slowly took my attention away and I wasn't focusing anymore, especially with the seasick feeling wasn't helping either. Throughout the film, creepy things would happen but only bits by bits, nothing major until the end, where it was the most scariest and jumpy out of the whole film. Other than that, there wasn't much tense built around the film.
The film was suppose to bring a full horror atmoshphere but instead, it felt more like a horror comical combined together as the main character Micah, was being a comdian throughout the film towards his girlfriend, Katie. The only part I look forward to during the film was the bedroom scene when they couples go to sleep. Firstly, because the camera is on a tripod so it was still and the other reason is, it is the only interesting part of the film as action and freaky-doing takes place. You'll see unknown shadow figures, door closing and opening, bedsheets being slide away and what freaks me out the most is when Katie gets drag away from her bed.
Overall, the film does contain spooky and freaky-doings that would totally give you the shiver. However, because of the long pause and unneccessary parts, the tension fades away before another disturbing image/prescene occured.
Shes The Man [Reenact]
Task: To reenact a scene from any film. Shooting the scene within exact shots, angles and acting/dialogues.
As part of the assignment, me and my group has reenact the a selected scene form the film Shes The Man, starring Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum. Each participated different roles on set to complete the task and below shows the finishing of the assignment/task.
Shes The Man [Original]
(starting from 3:40)
Shes The Man [Reenact]
Quick Peek:
As part of the assignment, me and my group has reenact the a selected scene form the film Shes The Man, starring Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum. Each participated different roles on set to complete the task and below shows the finishing of the assignment/task.
Shes The Man [Original]
(starting from 3:40)
Shes The Man [Reenact]
Quick Peek:
The Proposal (2009)
THE PROPOSAL
"Here comes the bribe..."
If you're a fan of chick flick film, this is one to watch. Starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, both creating a comedy and drama film leaving you in tears of laughter. Bullock and Reynolds play well off each other, and generate some major laughs throughout the film. However, The Proposal is exactly what you expect it to be, then again maybe it’s not. All the usual romantic comedy clichés are present and all the usual characters are too.
"Here comes the bribe..."
If you're a fan of chick flick film, this is one to watch. Starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, both creating a comedy and drama film leaving you in tears of laughter. Bullock and Reynolds play well off each other, and generate some major laughs throughout the film. However, The Proposal is exactly what you expect it to be, then again maybe it’s not. All the usual romantic comedy clichés are present and all the usual characters are too.
Bullock plays Margaret Tate, a tough New York City book editor feared and disliked by her employees, who've secreted dubbed her Satan's Mistress. Reynolds is Andrew Paxton, who has been her slave, er, assistant, for three years without any time off. When the Canadian-born Margaret's visa renewal is denied she forces Reynolds to marry her in order to avoid deportation. He agrees with the caveat that he 1) will get promoted to book editor and 2) they publish his novel and 3) he gets to take his first ever time off - going home to Alaska for his grand-mother's 90th birthday.
With doubting immigration officials watching their move, Margaret goes home with him but this city girl quickly finds herself out of place in the small urban town. Then there's the added pressure of sharing a bedroom and pretending to be engaged in front of his doting family. Naturally they begin to fall in love.
Overall, the film is pretty much predicatable and the sort of film you would state as a chick flick film with the love, romance, comedy, drama and good looking characters too. Something you would find in almost every chick flick films.
Drag Me To Hell (2009)
DRAG ME TO HELL
"Even nice people can go to hell"
Drag Me To Hell, a horror film directed by Sam Raimi who explores the film with death through cursing from one person to the other. Christine Brown, a working class lady dying to impress her boss with the promotion of an assistant manager meets a client during work. An old lady approaches her and begs for help to save her home where she has been living for over 30 years. Despite Christine trying to impress her boss, she rejects the old lady and refuses to help as they couldn't do anything else. However, after rejecting the poor old lady, the old lady started to curse Christine and horrbile things started to happen.
"Even nice people can go to hell"
Drag Me To Hell, a horror film directed by Sam Raimi who explores the film with death through cursing from one person to the other. Christine Brown, a working class lady dying to impress her boss with the promotion of an assistant manager meets a client during work. An old lady approaches her and begs for help to save her home where she has been living for over 30 years. Despite Christine trying to impress her boss, she rejects the old lady and refuses to help as they couldn't do anything else. However, after rejecting the poor old lady, the old lady started to curse Christine and horrbile things started to happen.
I feel like Sam Raimi has returned to the fold and raised the bar yet again for anyone making contemporary horror movies, creating what could be described as a refresher course in how to craft a fantastically scary film, without resorting to nasty tactics.
The performances are uniformly excellent and the casting, as with most of Raimi's films, is perfect. The make-up on Lorna Raver who plays the old lady, Sylvia Ganush was astonishing and really freaks people out just with the look of it from head to toe, including the scary old and yellow finger-nails. It may be a bit exageratting, however it worked totally great throughout the film as it does cause jumpy parts towards to audience especially with close-ups and unexpected picture frames of Sylvia Ganush, the image of her causes the horror throughout the film.
I find the film fairly interesting as every scenes catches my attention with drama inside and exciting storylines. There wasn't a scene that drifted me away and leave me off to somewhere else. The film jumps from one plot to another without having too much unnecessary scenes, this makes the film just full of horror as you don't have time to sit and relax after one horror to the other.
Overall, the film fits in its catergory and theme of horror and thriller. However, the only dissapointment was the ending as it was pretty much predictable to the audience and 15 minutes before the ending it already gave out the answer of how the ending would be and who will die towards the end. But you just have to watch it to the end to see how the person dies in the final scene.
Awake (2007)
AWAKE
"Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one."
Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba and Terrence Howard, the plot of this story is fairly simple as if focuses on a man who has an surgical operation of a new heart transplant but instead of fallen asleep during the operation, he is still awake yet paralyzed and know what is going on throughout the operation.
Broken down, whilst Clay goes through the operation he slowly finds out 'secrets' about his new wife and friend, Sam and Jake, how the operation was all a set up. Eventhough he realise something is going wrong he doesn't have the strength to stop the operation but watch himself dying through tricks and pain.
The story is played in an unique and clever way where the puzzle is solved towards the end of the film and answers that are unexpected and you wouldn't have guessed even though there were hints throughout the film, yet not subltle. The story follows fairly quickly and hits straight to the aim at the start of Clay having heart condition problems and needed a new heart transplant. Each scenes were moving snappily from one to the other rather than dragging on before getting into the main point of the film.
Like mention above, the storyline is fairly simple and easy to catch on and the further you watch the film it becomes much clearer and easier to understand what is going on and why the story is called Awake and what is the point of it. Overall, the film brings out unexpected plot and leaves you in a surprise split second and a thought of "OHH....".
"Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one."
Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba and Terrence Howard, the plot of this story is fairly simple as if focuses on a man who has an surgical operation of a new heart transplant but instead of fallen asleep during the operation, he is still awake yet paralyzed and know what is going on throughout the operation.
Broken down, whilst Clay goes through the operation he slowly finds out 'secrets' about his new wife and friend, Sam and Jake, how the operation was all a set up. Eventhough he realise something is going wrong he doesn't have the strength to stop the operation but watch himself dying through tricks and pain.
The story is played in an unique and clever way where the puzzle is solved towards the end of the film and answers that are unexpected and you wouldn't have guessed even though there were hints throughout the film, yet not subltle. The story follows fairly quickly and hits straight to the aim at the start of Clay having heart condition problems and needed a new heart transplant. Each scenes were moving snappily from one to the other rather than dragging on before getting into the main point of the film.
Like mention above, the storyline is fairly simple and easy to catch on and the further you watch the film it becomes much clearer and easier to understand what is going on and why the story is called Awake and what is the point of it. Overall, the film brings out unexpected plot and leaves you in a surprise split second and a thought of "OHH....".
El Orfanato (The Orphanage) (2007)
EL ORFANATO (THE ORPHANGE)
"Un cuento de amor. Una historia de terror" (A tale of love. A story of horror)
Guillermo Del Toro presents us another horror film from Spain. A film that speaks about love between a mother and the child yet in a horror form. The Orphange is about a former orphan named Laura, who has purchased her old orphange and recreated and built it as her own home as well as opening doors to childreen with special needs. Her family is consist with her husband and a child whom she has adopted and was found out with HIV positive.
The story is aimed on the dissapearance of her son Simon, who was lost without a trace nor clue and throughout the film, Laura has to play games to find out where her son has been hidden or lost for the whole 9 months. However, the film shows that Laura believes that the spirit of a deformed orphan accidentally killed years ago is extracting revenge for his death and the revenge was to happen upon her son, Simon.
The film is involved around with lots of love and caring between the mother and the son and what she would go through just to find her son and hoping he is safe. We could see the relationship between Simon and his mother and that she gives unconditional love towards him. However, during the film, you have to pay a lot of attention to understand the story as it gives twist and a sort of puzzle game where the audience/viewers has to solve it and reveal the story plot themselves.
The film itself took a long length of time to cut straight into the main point of the story. The film dragged on with unnecessary parts and scenw, the tension and excitement of the film slowly faded away as nothing "jumpy" was happening. It caused dissapointment to the film as throughout the film it was all in slow pace and for a horror film, there wasn't a lot going on apart from one or two small jump scenes.
However, the film itself wasn't bad as it had twist in between the lines and you would have to sit and watch it carefully to understand what was going on and why flashbacks were occuring throughout the film. The flashback played an huge/important part of the film as it tells the story of what is going on and why weird things are happening to Laura and her family in the old orphanage home. Without the flashback, the storyline would be a blur and hard to follow.
"Un cuento de amor. Una historia de terror" (A tale of love. A story of horror)
Guillermo Del Toro presents us another horror film from Spain. A film that speaks about love between a mother and the child yet in a horror form. The Orphange is about a former orphan named Laura, who has purchased her old orphange and recreated and built it as her own home as well as opening doors to childreen with special needs. Her family is consist with her husband and a child whom she has adopted and was found out with HIV positive.
The story is aimed on the dissapearance of her son Simon, who was lost without a trace nor clue and throughout the film, Laura has to play games to find out where her son has been hidden or lost for the whole 9 months. However, the film shows that Laura believes that the spirit of a deformed orphan accidentally killed years ago is extracting revenge for his death and the revenge was to happen upon her son, Simon.
The film is involved around with lots of love and caring between the mother and the son and what she would go through just to find her son and hoping he is safe. We could see the relationship between Simon and his mother and that she gives unconditional love towards him. However, during the film, you have to pay a lot of attention to understand the story as it gives twist and a sort of puzzle game where the audience/viewers has to solve it and reveal the story plot themselves.
The film itself took a long length of time to cut straight into the main point of the story. The film dragged on with unnecessary parts and scenw, the tension and excitement of the film slowly faded away as nothing "jumpy" was happening. It caused dissapointment to the film as throughout the film it was all in slow pace and for a horror film, there wasn't a lot going on apart from one or two small jump scenes.
However, the film itself wasn't bad as it had twist in between the lines and you would have to sit and watch it carefully to understand what was going on and why flashbacks were occuring throughout the film. The flashback played an huge/important part of the film as it tells the story of what is going on and why weird things are happening to Laura and her family in the old orphanage home. Without the flashback, the storyline would be a blur and hard to follow.
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