Halloween. At the beginning of Halloween the title Halloween is presented in red writing, behind a black background then slowly the writing changes into orange.

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A slasher film is a sub-genre of a horror film, typically involving a psychopath killer who stalks a group of teenagers and kills them one by one. Slasher films through the early 1980s were one of the most profitable prolific genre in Hollywood. The most talked about slasher movies in the 1980s were Friday the 13th, A nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween and Sleep away camp. These films were popular to the audience because they gave suspense and fear and made the audience want to watch more. One popular film from the 1900's is I know what you did last summer; the movie was very successful and appealed to everyone as there wasn't much gore and blood. As they were so successful they made two other sequels. Horror films often involve a complex set of codes and convection that will give the audience the idea that they are watching a horror film.

In every slasher film there will be non diegetic sound that will have a slow tempo and will get faster to built up tension when the murderer is about to kill.

The release date of Halloween was October 25th 1978 in USA, Halloween was huge as it kept the audience guessing and caught the adolescence and fear of each character right through the end of the film. The director, John Carpenter takes simple situations and turns them into a mounted symphony of horrors; Halloween was John's first film into horror. The movie scared to audience as the film is a suspenseful and pulse pounding movie, also the creepy music from Halloween is well known and has a unique style to horror.
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At the beginning of Halloween the title Halloween is presented in red writing, behind a black background then slowly the writing changes into orange. I think the writing has changed to link it to the pumpkin that's beside it, the pumpkin suggests its Halloween. The writing flickers like a light, similar to the light inside the pumpkin. After a few seconds it zooms closer and closer of the pumpkin making it an extreme close up, only seeing the nose and the eye this might suggest to the audience that there is a mask involved. Next we see a ...

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