Hostel is a 2005 horror film
written, produced and directed by Eli Roth and starring Jay Hernandez. Due to
the graphic nature of this film, its showing has been restricted in certain
countries.
Synopsis
– Three backpackers head to a Slovak
city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the
hell that awaits them.
Major actors: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson,
Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljakova, Jana Kaderabkova, Jan Vlas?k, Rick
Hoffman, Jennifer Lim
Director:
Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director,
producer, writer and actor. He is known for his role as Donny "The Bear
Jew" Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds for which he won
both a SAG Award (Best Ensemble) and a BFCA Critic's Choice Award (Best Acting
Ensemble). He is part of a group of filmmakers dubbed the Splat Pack,because of
their dedication to the genre and their relentless horror films.
Producer :Eli Roth, Scott Spiegel,
Quentin Tarantino
Date of Release: January 6, 2006
Film
Genre: Is a film genre seeking to draw
out a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's
most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through
the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus they may overlap with the
fantasy and supernatural genre. Horrors frequently overlap with the thriller
genre.
Setting of the film
The movie
is set in a dark gloomy underground warehouse, its immediately lets the
audience know that it’s a horror movie, has darkness is one of the human primal
fears. One of the characters are blind folded at a certain scene, this creates
a feeling of isolation for the audience, and also lets them know that the dark
gloomy warehouse is exclusive only a few people know about it.
Characters
The some
characters faces are not easily visible which lets the audience know that those
characters are the antagonists within film, but the audience clearly see one of
characters faces who seem to be tied to a chair, meaning that he is going to be
the victim. This trailer doesn’t seem to focus on the characters that much, it
creates fear by focusing more on the props.
Props
There is
a character wearing a butcher suit and there are a lot of dangerous tools that
could be used as weapons shown, for examples pliers, this hints to the audience
that one of the characters on the film maybe tortured. This types of props and
costumes are to be expected in modern horror films as the horror genre has
moved away from been about supernatural events such as ghosts and monsters but
in fact they are now more relatively realistic in terms of that the event could
actually take place. As thee audience of the horror genre has changed over the
years, because of the influences such as loss of religion believe, meaning that
people are more scared by realistic events rather supernatural one, as this
generation is not as superstitious as the previous one which would have been
scared by movies such as The Brides of Dracula
Editing
Slow but
short graphic clips are to used so that the audience can see the codes and
conventions’ that will scare, this keeps the interested. A lot of text is used within the trailer to
help portray what the movie is about but in a qualitative manner, as the
trailer is only one minute long.
Sound
Non-diegetic
sound
Dark murky music and sound effects
are used to create a dramatic and chilling atmosphere for the audience. For
example the audience hears a drilling tool been operated, this suggests that
one of characters are been tortured. Making the audience able to relate to the
victim who is about to be tortured.
Diegetic
sound
None of
the character actually speak all the audience hear is the screams of the
victims within the film. Thus dehumanising the film, making the film look uncivilised and inhumane to the
audience, thus attract the audience who are looking for those certain aspects
in movies.
Camera shots
An
establishing shot is used at the start of the trailer in order to show the
audience some of setting of the film, setting represents a horror setting which
lets the audience know that it’s a horror film.
Close ups are also used, this
creates a intimate atmosphere between the audience and characters, and it also
show the fear in some of the characters that are the victims. as a result
installing fear in the audience.
The lighting of this trailer is very dark,
consequently creating a sinister atmosphere which relates to a human childhood
theories of things that go bump in the night. this dark sinister atmosphere can
sometimes almost takes the audience back to their childhood fears and bring a
sinister emotion. Therefore achieving the goal of a horror film, this is to
scare its audience.
Medium shots are used to show
antagonist mischievous gestures and movements.
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