A log and analysis of Horror Movies viewed

The Horror Movies that I watched where:
Gothika,
Dark Water,
and The Shinning.
After watching each film, in class we would dicuss the film, what we thought about it, how it made us feel, and also we dicussed the conventions of horror movies, to help us in the making of our teaser trailer.
The first film we discussed was Gothika:
Halle Berry stars as Dr. Maranda Grey, a doctor working at the state prison for the criminally insane. On her way home during a driving rainstorm, Miranda makes a detour to avoid a big sinkhole in the road. As she is crossing a bridge on a back road, she veers sharply to the right to avoid hitting a young girl standing in the middle of the road. The car goes into a ditch, she goes to see whether the girl is unharmed, and awakens three days later to find herself a patient in the insane asylum. Miranda has been accused of killing her husband with an axe, but she has no memory of the murder. Rober Downey Jr., who also plays a doctor at the prison, tries to bring Miranda back to reality. However, one of her former patients (Penelope Cruz) tells her that you cannot trust the doctors, because they think you are nuts. Miranda finds this out the hard way when she tells the doctor that a ghost has possessed her, and he doesn't believe her and gives her more drugs. Miranda escapes from the prison to prove that she didn't kill her husband, but she discovers the truth instead.
My Opinion:
Overall i thought that the film was really good, it had a great storyline, creating suspense for the audience. I admit that i did jump at a few scenes, but don't everyone, i thought that the actors and actresses really suited their characters well. I thought that the way the story was unravelled to the audience was well thought out and really captured my attention and i was really hooked. Overall a really good film and i would give it a 7/8 out of 10.
The second film we discussed was Dark Water:
The plot involves a women, Yoshimi Matsubara, who, in the midst of an unpleasant divorce, moves to an eerie, run-down apartment building with her young daughter, Ikuko. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak. Yoshimi discovers that the upstairs apartment, which appears to be the source of the leak, was formerly the home of a young girl named Mitsuko Kawai, who was of the similar age to her daughter. The child had attended the same kindergarten Ikuko now attends. Mitsuko was abandoned by her mother and vanished more than a year ago. She also had owned a red bag which was the same bag that Ikuko found on the apartment roof when first viewing the apartment. Many incidents then happen repetitively, becoming stranger each time, with an unusual ending to the story.
My Opinion:
I think overall it's a good film, buy i think that we should have watched the English version as i would have understood it more, although i did understand the whole story in the end. I thought that watching the film made from another country would mean loads of subtitles, which i was right, but also thought that my mind would concentrate more on he subtitles rather than the film and so i would lose the story and it would make me jump. I was really wrong, although there was the downside of having the subtitles it was actually worse was when i was reading the subtitles i wasn't watching the TV screen so i jumped quite a lot at certain parts of the film.
Overall i think that its a good film, i think that what would have been better was seeing the Version but then i would only prefer the English version to the Japanese, so overall good film and i would give the film a 5/6 out of 10.
Finally the third film we discussed was The Shinning:
Former teacher and recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance interviews for a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel in an effort to rebuild his life after his volatile temper lost him a teaching position. The hotel manager, Mr. Ulman, warns Jack that he and his family will be snowbound through most of the winter and of the potential for cabin fever. He drives the point home by recounting a season when the caretaker, Charles Grady, went crazy and brutally killed his wife, his two girls (aged eight and ten), and finally himself. Given his own desperation and the opportunity to pursue his true passion, writing, jack acknowledges the warning, but accepts the job, then things start to go a bit crazy.
My Opinion:
I think that this particular film was really well produced, the storyline was excellent, it really kept me on the edge, made me jump and scream a few times, it created a lot of suspense, throughout the film. Didn't that it was going to be really scary compared to Gothika as it was filmed in the late 1970/80s.
Overall brilliant film, was really well produced, the actors and actresses really played their characters really well which added to the suspense and what really creeped me out. I think that i would rate this film 8/9 out of 10.