Color Theory in Horror Movies | Film Analysis

How does color theory apply to horror movies?

Works Discussed:

► The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
► O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
► The Matrix (1999)
► Children of Men (2006)
► Vertigo (1958)
► Rush (2013)
► The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
► The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
► The Tingler (1959)
► Sin City (2005)
► The Sixth Sense (1999)
► Blindness (2008)
► The Evil Dead (1981)
► A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
► The Sick Child, 1885 by Edvard Munch
► The Machinist (2004)
► The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
► It Stains the Sands Red (2016)
► The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
► The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984)
► The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
► The Hills Have Eyes II (2007)
► Crimson Peak (2015)
► The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1952)
► mother! (2017)
► It Follows (2014)
► Don't Look Now (1973)
► The Shining (1980)
► Suspiria (1977)
► The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
► The Exorcist (1973)
► The Ring (2002)
► Saw (2004)
► The Neon Demon (2016)

Sources:

► How to Use Color in Film 50+ Examples of Movie Color Palettes by Studio Binder (free copy here:
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/how-to-use-color-in-film-50-examples-of-movie-color-palettes/)
► HORROR MOVIE AESTHETICS: How color, time, space and sound elicit fear in an audience. Thesis by Xiangyi Fu (link opens a PDF: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9322/0ae85074b5b2d82e6bd5161c9ac525aa9a4d.pdf)
► http://slides.com/oliviareilly/colour-in-horror-films/embed#/
► https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/manipulate-emotions-with-color-in-film/
► https://www.filminquiry.com/power-colour-storytelling/
► https://www.theyoungfolks.com/review/130876/bleeding-red-the-use-of-color-in-horror/
► https://www.excelsior.edu/article/why-nurses-wear-white-and-the-evolution-of-nursing-uniforms/
► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZZgiSUyPDY
► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtQt_ThReoI
► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8X9TwaKxzM
► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lINVnA3rVIE
► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tg5iwK9dKQ
► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wnGUxVaifs
► https://theasiadialogue.com/2015/07/22/imperial-yellow-a-costume-colour-at-the-top-of-the-social-hierarchy/
► https://www.colormatters.com/color-and-vision/color-and-vision-matters
► https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-03-15-9201240411-story.html
► https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1952?msg=welcome_stranger
► http://char.txa.cornell.edu/language/element/color/color.htm
► http://learn.leighcotnoir.com/artspeak/elements-color/hue-value-saturation/

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