Ghost House Production Company

From my deconstruction (here), I chose our film opening to be produced by Ghost House because they have produced horror films such as Evil Dead, 30 Days Of Night and The Grudge. Therefore, Ghost House would be appropriate for our film opening because our genre is slasher/horror.

In addition to the production investigated in my previous post, there are other production companies which produced successful horror films. These include:

• New Line Cinema (Texas Chainsaw Massacre & The Conjuring)
  
  
• Blumhouse Productions (Sinister & The Purge)

• Lionsgate (Saw & The Cabin In The Woods)

• Universal Pictures (Hannibal & Mama)

Universal Pictures could be suitable for as our production company however some horror films they have produced such as The Thing and Mama contain supernatural themes as well. Our genre is strictly slasher so Universal would not be appropriate.

Though these are well-known production companies, my group and I wanted our existing production company to appear ominous and dark to foreshadow our film opening to the audience. Therefore, we were considering either Twisted Pictures (also produced the Saw films & Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D) or Ghost House because they looked dark and sinister which would be appropriate alongside our opening.



 In the end, my group and I chose Ghost House because, from watching previous horror film openings from A-Level students we saw the majority of them had used Twisted Pictures. So we decided to choose something different. During the editing process, in Final Cut Pro we added a grey effect over the Ghost House clip so it was more dark and to conform to the horror genre.

Ghost House's conventions for their horror/slasher films is to have lots of gore (Evil Dead) and scary-looking deranged characters (The Grudge & Drag Me To Hell). I felt this would be suitable as our production company because ours contains a lot of gore & includes a deranged and scary looking character because he wears a plain menacing mask and has words etched into his skin.