The Last Exorcism film analysis

1. the Last Exorcism is from the horror genre and the conventions of a horror movie are

• dark, shadowy lighing
• an isolated location
• usually a female victim
• disruption of normality
• a sub plot of male/female relationship
• defeat of omen or monster

2. the tecnical code of the sequence is the music because it builds up the tension and makes the audience want to go and watch the film because they want to find out what is going to happen
3. the key signifier of the sequence is the title 'Last Exorcism' this tells the audience basically what the movie is going to be about, also the fact that there is a girl doing abnormal things also tells the audience that it is not just a normal horror film but about evil spirits in a body.
4. the sequence tells us that the movie is about an exorcism of a girl who has been possesed by an evil spirit and what the exorcist does to get it out of her most likely to save her life.
5. the audience that is being targeted would be teenagers and young adults because they are the kind of people that like to scare themselves and also the person that has been possesed is a young female character.