Movie Review and Horror Theory

Write a 200-word movie review of Barking Dogs Never Bite, in which you examine specific examples from the movie that apply to the horror theories discussed in class. Please contact me if you need access to the film on Netflix.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Yun-Ju, a college lecturer who couldn’t bribe the dean to be a professor, always disturbed by the dogs’ bark and wanted to kill them. In one plot, he made a mistake by putting a dog in the dark cabinet. Later he found out that the dog actually couldn’t bark, so then he went back to the basement. However, the dog was in the hand of the security who was preparing for the dinner. Soon after, the light went out in the basement and the plot started to give audience chilled. The sensation of the movie, the security’s story about “boiler Kim”, the back ground sound affect and the way the security tell story are what make the movie horrify. This situation can be explained by what Carroll would call “Norm Violating”.

Whenever we get excited or curious about something, we kind of focus on that something more than usual. It’s because we wanted to know what’s going to happen after the light went out, after the security’s story-telling ended, and whether Yun-Ju will get caught or not. We are all curious about it. Then, combining with our curiosity and the fascination of the sound affect, the sensation that impact upon us and our concentration rate getting higher and higher and finally we reach to the state where we started to feel chilly and fear. That’s where the audience started to pay attention more on the movie.

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