Monday, 27 June 2011

All Boys Love Mandy Lane

All Boys Love Mandy Lane




Year - 2006
Director - Jonathan Levine
Genre - Horror Mystery Thriller
Country - USA

Story Line 

Mandy Lane is invited by a group of popular students at her school to a getaway ranch after becoming 'hot' over the summer. Things then take a turn for the worst as one by one the group starts disappearing.

Conventions

I think this film conforms to the normal conventions of a horror film, there is a lot of violence and mystery and at the end two people get away, a girl and a boy which is very normal.

Carrie

Carrie




Year - 1976
Director - Brian De Palma
Genre - Horror, Drama
Country - USA

Story Line

Carrie White is a quiet girl with telekinetic powers. She is abused by her mother religious mother and bullied at school. After pig blood is poured on her at prom she sets out to take revenge using her telekinetic power.

Conventions

This horror film was made in 1976 and I think it conforms to all the conventions of a horror film, there's blood and violence and references of the devil. I like this film even if the special effects aren't amazing because of the year the film was made, but it definitely creates fear in the audience.

Let The Right One In

Let The Right One In




Year - 2008
Director - Tomas Alfredson
Genre - Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Horror
Country - Sweden


Storyline

Oskar (Kare Hedebrant), a young boy who is bullied at school makes a unique friendship with a young girl called Eli (Lina Leandersson) who is a vampire.

Conventions

I think this film challenges and develops the normal conventions of a vampire film. With a vampire in a film, that the genre would be horror, but I think the film is more romantic as the director focuses on the relationship of Oskar and Eli. There is also minimum blood and violence apart from a few scenes compared to normal horror films. I enjoyed watching this film and it showed that the conventions in horror films can be developed and changed.