Timed Analysis of

Horror Genre

By Morgan Redman

Women in Black

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCR4tfQBd6

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• 2012

• Drama, horror, fantasy.

• A young lawyer travels to a remote village

where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a

scorned woman is terrorizing the locals.

• Opening scene.

0:02

• Three young girls are having a tea-party.

• Connotation of innocence and childhood which could be

taken away.

• Fragility of china and possible damage or injury.

0:11

• Tea party.

• Playing with dolls; connotation of motherhood.

0:15

• Tea party.

• Age of doll connotes the period in which the film is

set.

• Dolls create an atmosphere of horror.

0:17

• Three girls having a tea party.

• The room is obviously a nursery and thus is a room of play

and happiness.

• The toys strewn on the floor could connote bodies after

murders.

0:22

• A young girl brushing the hair of her toy doll.

• Connotation of motherhood, nurturing etc.

• China is fragile and easily broken.

0:24

• Young girls playing with dolls.

• Dressing them as though they were dressing a dead body.

• Laying the doll to rest.

0:26

• Girls at a tea party.

• Young girls are smiling and happy which could easily

change in a horror genre.

0:29

• A young girl isolated from the others.

• Smiling to show happiness.

0:35

• Tea party.

• Ominous looking through the camera.

• Reverse dramatic irony, they see something the audience

do not.

0:42

• Ominous looking towards something out of shot.

• Reverse dramatic irony.

0:44

• The use of negative space.

• Connotation of three windows for three girls.

• Tension building.

0:49

• The three girls are rising after looking towards the

window.

• The clothing demonstrates the period.

0:51

• The girls are still rising from their seated position as

too does the climax and tension which is building.

• The loose grip on the handle draws association that it

may break.

0:52

• The china cup is dropped and smashes into pieces on the

floor. This displays the fragility of childhood.

• This could connote the fall and destruction of the three

girls.

0:54

• The three girls abandon their childhood toys and walk

towards the window.

• Their vitality of life is being left behind.

0:56

• The foot crushes down upon the toy teapot which shows

the chaotic destruction of something fragile which could

serves as a metaphor for the three girls.

0:57

• The other girl crushes the face of the doll as though

she had fell from a great height and had cracked her

skull open. Foreshadows the fate of the three girls.

1:00

• The three girls walk in unison towards the window with

each lining up to an individual frame able to commit

suicide.

1:06

• The three girls line up with the windows and the

assumption now can be made that they are possessed, or

something alike, and are planning to commit suicide.

1:08

• The cut in shot on the hand opening the window is an

example of match on action. This further leads to the

assumption that they are going to jump from the windows.

1:15

• The three girls step up onto the window ledge in

preparation to jump out. The camera angle is connoting

that someone else is watching over them as they do so.

1:24

• The empty window frame is left after the three girls

jump out.

• This could connote the emptiness that the mother will

have in her life after her daughters die.

1:25

• The doll watches on after the girls jump from the

windows. She serves as the only witness to what

occurred.

1:29

• The backwards pan shot leads towards the figure who

watched over the death of the young girls. The figure is

the woman in black.