Example 1- Doom

This is one of the films I have chosen as an example. The action horror film with sci-fi themes and setting, Doom, is a film based off the groundbreaking franchise of games which brought to life the universe of the first person shooter, and made history. The film was made as an adaptation and didn't follow the original story, and wasn't a box office success. Yet, there was praise from the people who saw it, myself included.

It follows horror conventions like dark lighting and things popping out at you quite successfully. Theres one scene in the sewers of the mars base where the majority of the film is set where the cliche moment of somebodies flashlight going out results in his demise.

Also, the scene I have put above shows quite clearly the themes involved. The lighting is shown to be quite low and dark, and it shows what the protagonist is facing throughtout the film. Originally demons in the game, the people are infected by a twenty fourth chromasome which either makes you superhuman like the protagonist, or makes you a monster, some of which are shown to look very inhuman.This is something most horrors do, they detatch the antagonist from the audience and shows them as not being human in some way. Here of course shown by the bloody people and the mutated creatures.