Something in the movie that really interested me was the psychological horror involved in the film. Psychological horror is when the fiction relies on mental, emotional, psychological states to frighten or disturb the crowd. During the movie I didn’t think much about it, …show more content…
The film starts off with the mother, Grace, screaming when she woke up. Many things went through my head when that happened. As I thought about it more and more after the movie, I began to think that Grace woke up after killing herself and her 2 children. After she woke up, they began to tell the story of how they got to the end, where they are all dead.
Something in the movie that really interested me was the psychological horror involved in the film. Psychological horror is when the fiction relies on mental, emotional, psychological states to frighten or disturb the crowd. During the movie I didn’t think much about it, but then after the discussion, I began to analyze the different types of horror that took place during it. To start off, Grace would not believe Anne when she said she was seeing ghosts. She just thought she was seeing things and made her read the bible. Even though in most cases you wouldn’t expect to see that, in horror movies, the bible is usually a somewhat normal aspect. Another thing that is strange between the mother and the two children is that she will not let them be around sunlight. Throughout the whole film, Grace was always making sure the blinds were shut in order for them to walk through any place that had doors or any sort of windows. They could not be around any type of sunlight whatsoever. Something I learned in Psychology