This is the new piece from my ongoing film series.
This image is for the1963 horror movie, The Haunting (not to be
confused with it's
awful
1999 remake of the same name) The plot is a basic haunted house
story, but the tension is built around psychological drama, and
the tension between the characters. The ghost never makes a physical
appearance, but reveals itself through sounds, and bizarre events
that may or my not be an actual ghost. So, classical means like
dramatic camera angles, deliberate pacing, and character development
are at the heart of the tension, basically
making
an early blueprint for movies like the shinning, a film which also relies
on indicating the supernatural as a way of enhancing the personal drama,
rather than revealing it by means of dazzling special
effects. In the illustration I focused on the mirrors, as
the director put in almost every room large mirrors, and in many shots
the action can be seen playing out between the characters, but also
in the reflections of the mirrors, as if the house
was reflecting their own anxieties back to them in the form of
the supernatural.
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