Insidious 2 Opening Scene Analysis ( horror )

Insidious 2 opening scene. - Horror.

 Insidious 2 starts off as a jumpscare, where you see a lonely woman in a dark room staring into the distance, and a man is behind her, and places his hand on her shoulder, which introduces the audience to the idea that the genre of the film is Horror. in that short clip, there are two ''over the shoulder'' camera angles ,which introduces the audience to the characters and intrigues the audience. Whilst there is a sudden high pitch of violins playing to enforce the jumpscare.

We are then introduced to a scene of crime, where all of the main characters enter the room the woman and man are in, and they both act in shock as they find out the woman's mother was lying dead on the sofa in the middle of the room, which adds an aura of confusion for the audience because of the odd setting. Music is still going and intensifies as the characters' tensify.

After the first scene, the audience is brought into an interrogation scene, where an officer is questioning the woman about his husband who had supposedly killed her mother because he was possessed by a demon ( unknown at this point ) , the music stops and the voices are louder so we are brought into the story further. There are also a lot of over the shoulder shots throughout this whole clip, and a few 'mugshots'. Near the end of this scene, the camera zooms into the womans face, showing her emotions of sadness, shock and confusion, and makes the audience feel sorry for her.

The film genre is definitely horror, because there is death, sinister environments and a lot of things happening, engages the audience through intensity and the characters, and we can see that there is a lot of confusion in the trailer.

The audience for this film would generally be from teenagers to later 30's. this is because it is very tense and requires a mild understanding of certain things to fully immerse in the films, whereas the younger generations might not be well educated on ghosts or an ouija board.