(Tobe Hooper, 1974)
BUDGET: $83.5k
TITLES:
This film starts by giving the audience a sense of realism, even though it might not be fully correct it still leads the audience to believe that this film is based on true accounts, this sense of realism is used in quite a few slasher openings as it adds to the scare factor in making the audience believe that the films based on a true story making them think that it could happen to anyone.
It then goes on to reveal the date giving away exposition which is also a common convention in most slasher films.
SOUND + MUSIC:
This film is more about what you can hear at the start rather than what you see as it uses these sounds very well and in a way using narrative enigma as we can hear stuff going on but we don't know what it is leaving the audience in a sense of mystery, and this is using Barthe's theory on narrative enigma well.
BOX OFFICE: $ 30.8m
IMDb RATING: 7.5
TITLES:
This film starts by giving the audience a sense of realism, even though it might not be fully correct it still leads the audience to believe that this film is based on true accounts, this sense of realism is used in quite a few slasher openings as it adds to the scare factor in making the audience believe that the films based on a true story making them think that it could happen to anyone.
It then goes on to reveal the date giving away exposition which is also a common convention in most slasher films.SOUND + MUSIC:
This film is more about what you can hear at the start rather than what you see as it uses these sounds very well and in a way using narrative enigma as we can hear stuff going on but we don't know what it is leaving the audience in a sense of mystery, and this is using Barthe's theory on narrative enigma well.
NARRATIVE ENIGMA V EXPOSITION:
Then when this body is shown there's a radio in the background playing giving away the exposition to what has happened which is also used in most slasher films.
However this film goes against todorov's 5 part theory as it starts with a disequilibrium instead of a state of equilibrium where it's normal and hasn't been disrupted but here it's been disrupted from the start, which also acts as a genre signifier giving away the thought that this films a slasher or horror.
Also the theory of the final girl from Carole Clover is used in this film as the girl is brunette and seems to be the sensible one in the group, and there's also the 'other' in the group with his disability in the wheelchair making him the outsider.
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