Famous opening scenes

 I have researched and analyzed three different horror movie openings the first being from scream five when Tara is attacked in her house. It begins with her getting a phone call and at first, she isn’t very suspicious about it but then the mood gets darker and the music gets more suspenseful as the guy on the phone is scaring her and saying very creepy things. The house is also dark and very quiet, making Her look very vulnerable. It then escalates when he threatens to kill her when she gets the questions wrong. She runs to open the door to save her friend and gets stabbed right when she opens it. And then she gets brutally attacked.

The second one is the quiet place and it starts by a black screen saying day 89 So it draws the audience in wondering what that could mean but then it quickly gives you insight to what it may be by showing a world that has been destroyed it gives more and more clues of what happened by showing a deserted town with no one in it It then shows two children trying to be very quiet. There is a deaf girl and the sound they have used to show what she may be hearing is not completely silent, but it’s a sound that is not really anything at all almost like a slowed thumping. It then shows a mom trying to find medicine for her sick child in the rundown pharmacy, but she is also trying very hard to be quiet so it’s obvious that this is not just a game for the kids. The opening scene really shows you the relationships within the family. When they are walking in the woods, even though they didn’t want the little kid playing with the spaceship he still had it anyway and when it made a sound the dad and family turned around with petrified expressions on their faces. The dad ran to try to save his son but an alien got to him first which further tells us that there are aliens that are attracted to sound and this is what the movie will be about.

The third opening scene that I really like is to black phone. It starts by establishing the main character and that he’s just a normal young boy who plays baseball, but it also shows a scene of him shooting a rocket into the air by himself. This shows his true passion may not actually be baseball. And then it’s a scene of one of the young boys that we saw playing baseball riding his bike down the street smiling at two laughing girls and just being happy and a kid but then a black very creepy looking truck comes around the corner and the the child is instantly curios it then it cuts too a montage where it shows the credits and blurry but clear pictures of blood and different shots of things like missing child posters, and missing child written on trucks and black balloons floating in the air almost a dream like sensation that relates to the film further on. This montage has very eerie music playing during it.