Comparison of two horror films.

The first horror film is ‘An American werewolf in London’ this was directed by john Landis. The film is about two American men that take a trip to the English countryside. They are travelling along fine at first and then they get lost at night on a dark moore. Then all of a sudden they are subject to a werewolf attack where one of the men dies and the other one turns into a werewolf. This opening sequence showed many of the conventions of a horror movie with the darkness when they were lost on the moore’s and them being the only people on the moore’s and the blood and the werewolf. There are many symbolic conventions in this film for example when the two men are walking along the moore’s you can see the full moon giving the presence of the werewolf.

‘28 Days later’ is the second horror film, this was directed by Danny Boyle. This film shows many conventions of being of the horror genre but in a different way as to ‘An American Werewolf in London’ because in this film it starts in a dim lit laboratory with monkeys which had be infected with rage locked up in cages and when they are let out the attack the people violently and this shows horror conventions because it uses a lot of blood.

 

Both two films are horror films but they convey the conventions in different ways however both films are very effective.