"She plays a governess to two traumatised children in a remote house where life is so fragile that the petals fall from the roses, mysterious figures appear in the grounds and ominous screeching sounds crack the night. Freddie Francis's shadowy, black-and-white cinematography, with all those flickering candles, sets a spooky tone, but it's the soundtrack, using uncanny electronic noises by Daphne Oram, that really needles into your brain."
"But when I think back to the most intense scares I've experienced in the movie theater, Paranormal Activity pops up again. Back in 2009, when it gradually made its way to wide release after a festival debut a full two years earlier, it didn't have that Blair Witch buzz mistaking its faked footage for the real thing. But Paranormal Activity did update those aesthetics for a time when home cameras had become more prevalent than ever, lending its surveillance-footage showpieces a queasy reality,"
The Innocents (1961) adapts Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, directed by Jack Clayton with contribution from Truman Capote. Deborah Kerr portrays a governess to two traumatised children in a remote house, experiencing horrifying visions and rapid psychological disintegration. Freddie Francis's shadowy black-and-white cinematography and flickering candlelight generate an unsettling atmosphere while Daphne Oram's electronic soundtrack intensifies dread. Paranormal Activity (2009) revitalized the found-footage horror genre, spawned sequels and knockoffs, and used prevalent home-camera aesthetics and surveillance-footage presentation to produce queasy, realistic scares in theaters.
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