The Conjuring

From The Conjuring, this scene is meant to evoke fear and suspense in the audience. Horror movies like these do well because it does not take much for the audience to expect the evil lurking around the corner. Even with this sense of apprehension built up from the beginning, to make an audience truly terrified requires the editor of a movie to decide how they will elicit these reactions from the audience. The editor for The Conjuring did a great job in the shots, pace, sounds, and mood he chose to make this clip scary and shocking. At first, all we hear is the sound of rain and thunder. Storms are always the portent for disaster, and in a horror movie that deals with demons like this one, the storm is not a good sign. Storms are a great way to garner a response from the audience. Taking place at night, the lightning is the only source of light which only comes in bursts. The brief flashes of light scare people because everyone is afraid of what is lurking in the dark. With this scene taking place at night, the dark is used purposefully as an effective scaring tactic. The sixth shot with the girl at the top of the stairs is very interesting because only the top is illuminated. Given the recent sequence of events, the audience is left to imagine what is hiding in the

Without dialogue, the audience is left with only hearing the music and sounds of rain and the character’s breathing. Watching this movie during the day did not lower my amount of fear or excitement I felt throughout and I think that is in part of the music. The building crescendos in the music alerts the audience that something bad is going to happen, but the problem for the audience is they do not know when the jump scare will happen. The main part of a jump scare is the sudden spike in music which can be seen in this scene as an example at 0:35, 1:34, and at