The third movie I had is Final Destination, directed by James Wong. It is an American supernatural horror film. First of all, I would like to state that I HATE HORROR! I know horror movie has better camera position and angle (for anticipating), but the effect of “want to make you scare” make me get tired. But, I still had watched some horror film like Annabelle, Devil Doll. I noticed that most of the horror film, they have some similarities – they always relate to religion – with a cursed doll, voodoo doll. Their lighting is always dark, then some sound come out, the characters suspicious for a while, then finally the horror thing come out with the sound effect.  All the settings are helping to enhance the horror feel – the lighting, the makeup, camera movement and others. For example, Annabelle, the cursed doll. The little doll has a horrifying face, I don’t get why the characters said it is cute. The face is actually appearing at the establishing shot.

Coming back to our topic, film staging. All the staging is always a hint for the death. A window reflected a figure like plane, and it is not stable in the rain. This is the hint for the air crash. 

The number of 180 always appears, this number is a number of spirits, means that something bad will keep happening. There are many clues that give a hint to audiences of how the characters die. Another thing is, someone gave a leaflet to main character and said, “Death is not the end”.
The others hint that is obvious, which is the sticker pasted on main character’s luggage mentioned “Final Destination”. If you listen carefully, you can also hear that, a song is always come out when there is death – Rocky Mountain High by John Denver. The singer is also dead from air crash.

The costume and make up are all daily life based, it is kind of giving stress that the death can be occur in our daily life and is unexpected. Death can be around us at anytime, anywhere. After all, death is hard to predict. Apart from that, the lighting is also daily life. Production group never try hard to make the lighting too dark for manufacturing the horror feel. Just because all the setting of this film is based on daily life, it enhances the invisible fear. Another thing is – the actor’s behaviour. They will say something or doing something to hint how they die. 
For example, Tod did a pose of strangled to Alex, it means that he will be strangled. Another thing is, when Terry scold Carter “Drop dead”, it same as how she dies. 
Even a reflection figure passed through a certain part, it is also means something – as Billy watched the plane leave, the reflection of the plane was just over his mouth; when he dies, he was cut off by a piece of iron above his mouth.

Talking about mise-en-shot – camera movement, camera position and duration of each shot. First, the camera movement. When there is death happen, the camera follows the characters. It creates a sense of someone is staring at the character – like the death is looking for the opportunity to kill them. 
Second, the camera position – it places at the certain angle that enhances the danger – like Lewton is lying on the floor, she tries to get a cloth to cover her throat of blood spreading. The position is her point of view, it makes the tension for the audiences because the cloth is covering the knives. Last, the duration of each shot – they are giving the sense to audiences for more tension. The duration of each shot makes the sense of something is about to happen, and audiences can get into the movie easily.

There are some sub genres of horror film – unnatural, psychological and massacre or slasher flicks. I think it is consider a horror film because the sub genres are included. Firstly, unnatural – it has the external force threatening civilians – the grim reaper. In the opening credit, there are some hints for the unnatural. There is a figure that are like a figure of death appeared at the opening scene.

A book was blown open by the wind, and the first page wrote a word – DEVIL. In the magazine, there is an obvious hint – THIS IS THE END – using red and horror feel typography, means all the characters will die at the end. Another thing is, the main character has the predictive ability. He can see something that does not exist, and that is hinting the death is coming. He also tries to cheat death to save his friend. We thought they had won against the death, but then the death is continuing (at the end of the movie).

Second, psychological. They always give the hints for the next death – the figure and reflection that doesn’t exist, with the sound effect and facial expression of the actors. This can give the audiences tension on the death. 

Normally, the hints are the reflection or the sign. Lastly, massacre or so called slasher flicks which is the continuous death.