What Lies Beneath

For an opening scene of a horror film, we decided to analyse a clip form 'What Lies Beneath'. When watching this clip, i noticed how the music dictates the mood of the film. The gentle sounds playing throughout the clip set the scene of a lady filled with fear. The instrument being played is mainly focusing on minor, slow, low pitched sounds until the producers want to feel the audience with tension and fear, which is when they start to incorporate the higher pitched, almost squeaky sounds to replicate the shock and scarceness of the character. Although this scene is not set in a dark room which most scary scenes are in horror films, the fact that this lady is alone creates a very dramatic atmosphere for the viewers. The theme of this film is quite obviously about the lady being killed by what we can conclude to be as an inanimate human being. We know this as the woman repeatedly asks 'what do you want?' hoping for an answer - the response she gets is 'you' written on a mirror smothered in condensation! In my opinion, the reason a mirror is used (which is blurry because of the condensation) is to exaggerate the title of the film 'What Lies Beneath' as you never know what lies beneath the surface and in this case, it is a ghostly like creature behind the mirror.