7. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre directed by Tobe Hooper in 1974

This scene starts with a long shot in high key lighting of a man walking round the side of a house to the front door shouting to see if anyone is home as he looks for his friends. The camera pans round so the man stays in the shot as he goes to the door. We can hear nightly sounds such as crickets and other bugs making noises and the non-diegetic music is a very quiet like a low humming sound, with the man talking and knocking at the door it’s very hard to hear it but that makes it seem as if it doesn’t want to be heard. We then see a medium shot of the man though the netted door his face in low key light, because inside the house is very dark and the only light is from the sun as it sets. As he starts to walk away the camera goes back to a long shot as he sees his friends jacket, the camera slowly zooms in but still keeps his whole body in shot, it then changes to a long medium shot and straight away zooms into a medium shot of the man looking at the jacket. He then turns back to the door shouting his friends name thinking there playing a joke on him, the camera goes back to the long shot with the man facing the door and zooms in, we start to hear chains rattling. The camera goes back to the medium shot of the man looking though the door as he is telling his friends to stop goofing around; we still haven’t seen any evidence that his friends are in the house which makes the audience starts to get nervous. He goes to walk away again and the camera changes to a medium shot from the side of him and we hear what sounds like someone groaning, he goes back to the door and the camera goes back to a medium shot from inside the house, the man opens the door and walks towards the camera, the camera pans up slightly so it’s almost a low angle shot looking as if he has the power as he demands his friends to stop messing. He walks forward calling his friends out, the house is very low key lighting and has no lights on at all, as he walks forward the camera changes to a medium shot from behind the man as he walks towards the door at the end of the hall way. A close up of the man at the door when we hear tapping coming from inside the room the man calls his friends name and walks in, then the camera zooms out and a meat hook comes into focus and is lit up by the sun light. The non-diegetic music at this point starts to get louder and this makes the audience really on edge. As he walks in the room the camera changes to a high angle shot and we then hear tapping, the man turns and looks at the freezer. The camera then goes to a medium shot of the man as he stares at the freezer with a look of fear, probably thinking if the tapping really came from the freezer and hoping it didn’t. The camera goes to a high angle shot of the freezer and more tapping is heard, the camera then changes to a low angle of the freezer as even more tapping is heard. It is clear to the audience because of the different angle of the freezer and the tapping that someone is in the fridge. The high angle shot, medium shot and low angle shot that have been used in the room are all used as the man walks quickly to the freezer, again building up tension. As he opens the freezer the non-diegetic music starts, the music sounds would be used when something shocking happens. When he opens the freezer the high angle camera shot zooms into the freezer to see a girl in there, possibly one of his friends. She tries to jump out of the freezer as she does the camera angle changes to a shot of her leaning over the edge. The camera angle changes again to a medium shot of the man and before we see the killer we hear him moaning as he walks though the door, coming from the darkness, and goes to hit the man with a hammer. The camera changes to an over the shoulder high angle shot from the killers shoulder of the man screaming and the camera goes back to the previous shot as the killer hits the man as he does the non-diegetic music become a little faster but still quite slow. As the killer continues to moan he walks to put the girl back in the freezer and shut it. He walks around the room looking for anyone else, we see him run back into the room he came from moaning as he runs to the window. The camera angles in the last few seconds changed a lot to create the atmosphere. As he gets to the window the camera changes to a medium shot of him opening the curtains and looking outside. The music starts to slow down as the killer realizes that there isn’t anyone else and sits down and puts his hands to his head. It almost looks like he didn’t want to kill the man, this is the first time we have seen a killer possibly regretting what he did and it makes the audience think twice about the killer. The killer is wearing a homemade mask with eye and mouth holes and a long coat type jacket. At the beginning of the scene there is no over dramatic non-diegetic music to build up tension the diegetic sounds and fast camera changes do that just as well as non-diegetic music would, some made find it more effective because it makes it more real. At the beginning of the scene you knew something was going to happen to the man because in most horror films when someone walks into a dark scary house in the middle of nowhere will die, it’s quite a typical part to a horror film.