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Monday, 24 October 2011

"The Hole", "The Devil's Rejects" and "Amusement" : Settings

A common occurance with horror films, is the settings being isolated and often dark.  This is because unfamiliarity will cause both the audience and characters to be unsettled and vulnrable.  "Amusement" follows this, but "The Hole"  and "The Devil's Rejects" seem to feature the isolation with the unfamiliarity rarely within the film.  Although "The Hole" is set almost entirely in one large, dark room, the characters are fully aware of their surroundings, but not always of those they share the area with beyond the walls they are trapped in.  This is particularly effective, as the audience is able to see how such a length of time and a small space can change the characters and the way they interact with eachother. 

"The Devil's Rejects" shows the main charaters, also the criminals, as being relatively free.  They have acess to transportation and travel during daylight through towns, however they are forced out of their most familiar surroundings, their home.  Entrapment is often felt by their victims, as they are usually in either a hotel room or a cage, and gradually throughout the film, the characters' surroundings begin to trap them.