The book was written by edger allen poe who is famous for his horror novels.
The setting of this story is a classic for horror movies and was copied many times afterwards. A creepy old mansion surrounded by fog and dead trees. "the house seems to have absorbed an evil and diseased atmosphere from the decaying trees and murky ponds around it. The camera angles used in this scene were long shots to show the suroundings plus it seems as if he is being watched.
This an old film so the different featured used would not of been cliched but other films have used the ideas to create atmosphere due to the iconography. This film uses Gothic styles to create its horror setting: a haunted house, dreary landscape, mysterious sickness, and doubled personality. The house is an old, large Gothic mansion location in Victorian new england and all the characters where period costumes. The dialogue used throughout the film is posh and literal so gives the film a more period feel, plus it creates more tension and atmosphere to what is being described by the characters, for example a scene when 'Mr. Winthrop' meets Vincent Prices character there is a description of how he could hear Mr. Winthrop approaching the house and he uses a series of metaphors to show his pain.
The use of sound effects are used well as there are scenes where you can hear ghostly howling to scare you.
The setting of this story is a classic for horror movies and was copied many times afterwards. A creepy old mansion surrounded by fog and dead trees. "the house seems to have absorbed an evil and diseased atmosphere from the decaying trees and murky ponds around it. The camera angles used in this scene were long shots to show the suroundings plus it seems as if he is being watched."The film was made with a low budget so used cheap sets, and got footage of anything they could without paying to much, for example they used shots from other movies and one time a building down the street from the set had burnt down so the crew made sure they filmed it in order to get a realistic explosive ending for the film without any money being spent.
the movie has a central villain who takes control. the butler knows everything so is a sinister character. The victim is Malden as she is the vulnerable female who wheres a low cut top, this is a stereo-type as the female in frankenstein is also a good looking female named Elizabeth who wheres a low cut top. there is another female stereo-type which is an ugly hag. the producers of american international pictures. the director, Roger Corman was successful with this film so if they make money they use the same director, actor, plot until the audience gets bored of it and they don't make profit. Also the actor vincent price knows how to act for horror films so he will do the job well each time.
This an old film so the different featured used would not of been cliched but other films have used the ideas to create atmosphere due to the iconography. This film uses Gothic styles to create its horror setting: a haunted house, dreary landscape, mysterious sickness, and doubled personality. The house is an old, large Gothic mansion location in Victorian new england and all the characters where period costumes. The dialogue used throughout the film is posh and literal so gives the film a more period feel, plus it creates more tension and atmosphere to what is being described by the characters, for example a scene when 'Mr. Winthrop' meets Vincent Prices character there is a description of how he could hear Mr. Winthrop approaching the house and he uses a series of metaphors to show his pain.
The use of sound effects are used well as there are scenes where you can hear ghostly howling to scare you.
the audience of the time would have been scared in the film because of the tension and suspense throughout the film plus they would be thinking about what is going on because it is not clear what is wrong with the house. in my opinion i thought that everyone was dead and they could not leave the house because they were ghosts and other people would have heir theories but in the end it turns out that the the house was built on unsteady grounds and the spookiness is a creation of the villain.
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