Just a suggestion concerning sound in horror. In Japanese and Korean horror
films, a large part of which tend towards adapting or corroborating certain
staple tropes from each other, such as the long-haired, dishevelled woman
with a pale ghastly face and blood flying from her eyes etcetera, sound
plays an extremely important role in heightening the horrific feeling.
Screeching violin sounds, muffled heartbeats, and occasional screams of a
woman in the background even when there may not be an apparition, often seem
to recur quite often in these films. I would refer to films like "The Ring"
(Japanese), "The Ring Virus"(Korean), "A Tale of Two Sisters"(Korean,
directed by Kim Ji-Won), and Kim Ji-Won's short segment in the Asian
co-production between HongKong, Korea and Thailand, "Three", and the
"Whispering Corridors" series(which include "Whispering Corridors", "Memento
Mori", and "Wishign Stairs"). Some of these films suffer from a lack of
originality in terms of plot stylistics and cinematic editing, but that
said, it is interesting to observe how they all seem to heavily borrow from
each other in terms of the images.
Kevin
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