[David Bender]

Dave Bender

What I learned doing this assignment is to dissect movies to see what makes them tick.

Title / Concept: Blackstock Boneyard/Brothers who were prominent black farmers, forced to sell their land and wrongly executed. 100 years later, they come back to avenge their deaths.

Terrorize The Characters: A descendant of the family that killed the farmers is stalked, along with the other people that are trying to profit off of selling their land.

Isolation: It takes place in a small town in Louisiana.

Death: The farmers are electrocuted and they stalk and kill the descendants with electrocution and various farming tools.

Monster/Villain: The spirits of the two farmers that were wrongfully killed 100 years ago.

High Tension: The characters become trapped in the plantation house as the spirits of the farmers hunt down and kill them.

Departure from Reality: The ghosts of the farmers are unstoppable invincible killing machines.

Moral Statement: The sins of the father shall be visited upon the children.

Anything else you’d like to say about what made this movie a great horror film? I wouldn’t say it was a great horror film. It had certain moments that were good and scary. It can be watched for its moments and not as a whole film.

My Concept:

Concept: A paranormal “fixer” is able to absorb and eliminate negative entities and spirits from those inflicted.

Terrorize The Characters: A paranormal team is called to a location to assist a family whose child is inflicted with an entity.

Isolation: The situation occurs at a residence. The characters can’t get away from the entity that has latched onto them.

Death: Several people die as this entity absorbs their life force, causing them to kill themselves or others.

Monster/Villain: A demonic entity that has the ability to absorb and attach itself to others.

High Tension: The family is afraid for their child’s life and is seeking help when the entity attaches to the child.

Departure from Reality: The fixer has the ability to absorb and eliminate negative entities that he encounters in the people he meets. He temporarily houses these entities until he is able to shed them from his body.

Moral Statement: People’s faith is tested and those that don’t believe are likely to suffer the consequences of their disbelief.