Day of the Dead
Year: 2008
Genre: Horror
Personal Mark: 7
Day of the Dead, in my opinion is a sub-par kind of film
trailer. While it is aesthetically pleasing, through cinematography, the
general mise-en-scene and appealing to Laura Mulveys; the male gaze. It first
takes you to the general setting of the film; A suburban town in the heartland
of America. This is very typical of the horror genre as it stresses a lack of
communication with the outside world, as well as showing the general isolation
of the place. It establishes the key protagonist straight away, making sure to
have at least three angles on her in every scene transition. It also establishes the antagonists very
quickly. It goes down, as many gore films do, the medical route to explain the
motivation behind the zombie s. They are
clearly the antagonists and are clearly marked by their distinct body language
and outward appearance. The military background for our heroine ever so
slightly challenge the cultural dominant ideology as there is a stigma about
women in the army that is still relatively post-modern.
The overall class mark was 5. This was mainly due to large
amounts of the narrative being leaked and the characters seeming overly
conventional/ wooden. The big budget is made apparent in the setting and
general mise-en-scene, i.e. Trucks, guns/props, costume etc. Overall it seems like a conventional horror,
made relatively well, with a slight twist; that being that a woman is the
protagonist as opposed to the conventional male protagonist.
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