This is a short horror piece on a you tube channel that showcases various pieces of horror work, from feature films to shorts.
The piece I've decided to analyse in this post follows a young boy who is preparing to go to school, preparing some unique tools for it, including various blades and a bottle of Cyanide. This bottle of cyanide doesn't just have a strong use in the piece as we see later on but is also used a lot in the colour palette with the kids room using various blues as the boy is packing. Along with the props it tells the audience that the room they are in is a boy's room and that the child in question is in danger. However as we leave the cool blue of the room and enter the Red living room ( and yes in my opinion the colour corrections is way too pink) we know that who ever is their caused the problem.
We slowly are shown that the child is the danger, in fact he is the danger showing his mental state by wearing a face and giving a menacing grin. Where it is revealed that the parents are both dead with a letter of acceptance into a cereal killer school for the boy.
This film is effective because you're not expecting the young boy to have a personality like that looking around his room ignoring the blades and when we get the reveal of his face it's truly horrifying to see the damage he's done along with his 'cute' farewell to his family shows how truly messed up he is.
Link to the Short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=209Sx07OPnU&list=PLfarU_76noqpyl-pGqG9yM7wX_9NkheYr
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