Response 6: Irony Analysis to Psycho

             In the movie Psycho there is three different types of Irony that Alfred Hitchcock uses. Throughout the film Alfred uses Verbal, Situational, and Dramatic Irony purposely to get the audience uncomfortable and shocked. In a specific scene Alfred Hitchcock used Situational Irony. Its the scene where Sam distracts Norman while Lila goes to look inside Normans house for his mother. Norman starts to get anxious and suspicious so he walks to the parlor and looks outside the window and sees someone in his house. Norman hits Sam in the shoulder with a big can and then runs to his house. Lila sees him coming and hides in the downstairs cellar but under that cellar there's another cellar but for fruit. Norman goes up stairs and Lila thinks about leaving but sees a door and goes down to the fruit cellar where "Mother" is. Lila sees her and then taps her but its nothing but a preserved dead body. Next thing you know Norman comes and tries to stab Lila but Sam comes to the rescue and takes the knife away from him. But this whole time Norman wasn't Norman. There was two personalities in him his dead mom and Norman, but at that time Mother had completely took him over which is ironic. 
            Situational Irony has an effect on the audience. Situational irony is when something happens and you expected something completely different to happen. This type of irony has you talking to the movie screen. Like this audience did while watching this scene in the movie Psycho.  This Situational scene had the audience anxious and terrified about whats going to happen next.  This scene had me the audience jumping and sitting half way out of their chair with their eyes covered. After that scene the audience was just jaw dropped.  No one new that Norman had a split personality and that there was no more Norman there was only Mother left. 

Response #5: Film Analysis

The scariest movie that I've ever witnessed is The Whaley House. This was the most scariest movie to me because of the sounds. In every horror movie there's always many points in the movie that has a pop out scene. In that pop out scene most of the times there's a big sound affect that makes the audience get scared, and in this movie there's a lot. For example the characters all go into the basement to haunt down the ghost and the ghost tries to kill the main character and there is loud sound affects to make the viewers terrified.
            Something else that scares me is how realistic the characters are. In the movies they creators make the characters look extra scary. They put make up on them and they put wigs, clothing, and many other types of objects that make them more scary.
            In this movie when the pop ups happen or the sound affects happen the lights turn off or they shape angles to make the audience jump. For example in this movie the characters try to communicate with the ghost. They say "Knock once if your mad" then, the ghost would knock and the house would shake, the lights would turn off, and the characters faces will get closer to the camera to show there expressions.
            I saw this movie at my house at noon with my mom  and my brother. I'm not a big fan of  scary movies so this is the scariest I've watched so far. The reason why I wanted to watch this movie is because its based on a real house in a tourist place called "Old Town." I also wanted to watch this movie because of the tailor I saw.