Essays on The Woman in Black
Sound effects and music in film today are not always fully appreciated, so in this study I will be looking into a particular film and breaking it down to examine the effects music and sound design has on viewers. The film that will be explored in this study is called The Woman In Black which...
How did the play make you feel? I had quite an uneasy feeling during the majority of the play, it’s safe to say that they secured their goal of keeping me watching in bated breath as i watched the events of the play unfold. They did this in many ways throughout the play using certain...
Nursery rhymes and the themes associated with them are especially prevalent within the genre of horror. These traditional verses have been a part of everyone’s childhood, being associated with an innocent, safe and worry-free time in the viewers lives. However, whether it’s a song or a rhyme, directors and composers utilise these themes to violate...
Supernatural beings exist in Gothic literature to corrupt others and to also highlight the anxieties of society’ In light of this view, compare and contrast the presentation of the gothic characters of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel in ‘The Turn of the Screw’ by Henry James and the character of the woman in black in...
Out in cinemas May 10th, comes the most anticipated movie of the year, The Woman in Black. Directed by James Watkins and starring Britain’s most famous wizard, Daniel Radcliffe, this film is bursting the seams with tense and unsettling moments. Having been based on the chilling Novel by Susan Hill (1983), it brings the book...
