Film report: Texas Chainsaw massacre

Title: Texas chainsaw massacre

Director:  Marcus Nispel

Writer: Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper

Starring: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker and Andrew Bryniarski.

Trailer: 

The trailer for this film is one of the best that I have seen it carry’s all the important part of what a trailer should do and the editing is really good. It shows some of the story line and shows that t is a typical type of horror film conveying to all the major codes and convections a horror film should have. Form the trailer we can also see that is never enough a slasher film if there was a sub genre that had to be picked.

Opening title and sequence: 

At the begging of the film there is a short clip of narrated film that explain that this was a true story this contains footage of a realistic state that could really scare the audience and make it seem more real than they had previously been told.

Codes and conventions:

·         Last girl theory.

·         SEX=DEATH

·         Group of teenagers

·         Stereotypes of teenagers

·         Deserted

·         Curiosity kills

·         No help!

·         Promiscuous girl dies

Moment Equilibrium: 

The period of equilibrium is relatively short for this film, they are driving through the outback’s of Texas all having a good time a couple are kissing in the back while there is a boy smoking some substance of drugs while the driver is flirting with who we guess is his girl friend. At this point we could think that this was any other high school film but form the short clip at the beginning we know it is not all the teenagers that are seen here follow the stereotypes of teenagers that we see in these types of horrors.

Moment of disequilibrium: 

this occurs when the teenagers come across a young woman walking on the road in the middle of know where they find this suspicious so pull over and ask if she is ok. At this point the young woman says “there all dead” this is when the audience know something isn’t wrong. The teens try and be helpful and take her in the van to see what has happened. But curiosity in horror films never goes down to good. 

The new equilibrium: This is when we see her drive off with the baby  and we don’t know what happens from then on.

At the end of the film there is also another clip just like at the start of the film which makes it seem all the more real.