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The Shining• Genre: Psychological horror• Release date: May 23rd 1980• Cast: Jack Nicolson, Shelly Duvall, Danny Lloyd,

Scatman Crothers…• Director: Stanley Kubrick• Produced by: Stanley Kubrick• Synopsis:

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the

father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

Opening Scene: Integrated • Dramatic. intense music• Aerial/establishing shots of panoramic landscape• Daytime (sun)• Forests• Progresses the narrative only slightlyhttps://www.youtube.com/watc

h?v=TgCejsyS0t8

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The Exorcist• Genre: Horror• Release date: June 19th 1973• Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb,

Kitty Winn…• Director: William Friedkin• Produced by: William Peter Blatty• Synopsis:

When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to

save her daughter.Opening sequence: Individual• Creepy, eerie soundtrack• Does not progress the narrative• Black screen• Red font• More stylised font

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpw-GbEpjR4

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The Purge: Anarchy• Genre: Psychological horror• Release date: May 23rd 1980• Cast: Jack Nicolson, Shelly Duvall, Danny Lloyd,

Scatman Crothers…• Director: Stanley Kubrick• Produced by: Stanley Kubrick• Synopsis:

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the

father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

Opening Scene: Integrated • Dramatic. intense music• Aerial/establishing shots of panoramic landscape• Daytime (sun)• Forests• Progresses the narrative only slightlyhttps://www.youtube.com/watc

h?v=TgCejsyS0t8