Critical Investigation Plan

Critical Investigation Plan

Why has horror films such as Sinister, represented children to be dangerous/evil?

Sinister

Scott Derrickson

-          paranormal activity

-          Insidious

-          Orphan

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Introduction

Children in HORROR-

 (Rachel Howe)

“A lot of people think about when watching scary movies are why are the evil characters always children or targeting children.”

“  When watching horror films there seems to be nothing scarier than the little kid who just pops up on screen and you know is about to do something so crazy or witness an event that will change their personality for the rest of the film.”

Section 1 –

In this section I will be discussing the main plot of the movie, this YouTube clip shows everything about how the children are presented..

Sinister Extended Cut Endings – Youtube

“Best Horror Film in the Last Decade”

“that was the scariest movie I've ever seen."

Section 2 –

Orphan trailer

In this section, I will be discussing

Section 3 –

criticisms

In this paragraph I will talk about why horror may not be a popular genre and how it has failed to pleasure audiences recently 

Bad reviews from my texts and orphan .

“Fails to deliver in every way!”

“Too long, repetitive and not that scary”

Section 4 –

In this paragraph I will be talking about the pleasures of horror movies from what I have found out in my research…

Pleasures of horror

Section 5 -

Migrain and theories of sinister

-            In this paragraph I will be talking about the analysis I done for sinister

-          Analysis on video as well as the movie

Conclusion –

 In this paragraph I will write a different conclusion about the children in horror and the audience pleasures of horror movies - I will also include a quote I gained from the BFI Library