Detailed Analysis of The Horde

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The horde is a French horror film based on a zombie apocalypse in modern day France. The main story line is a posse of crooked cops, malevolent gangsters and a horde of zombies. Penned like animals on the top floor of a deserted high rise block, these two opposing gangs find that they are not alone in the lair of bloodthirsty corridors of death. Joining forces to survive, they must reach ground level together or perish. Loaded with heavy weaponry, bad attitudes, axes and extremely creative hand to hand combat sequences that project the fears and paranoia that are the fighting forces behind the need to survive when caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time situation.

The first shot of few shots of the film are the names of companies that have produced the film, this lets the audience see who created the film and know if the reputation of the company will follow with the film.

The first character we see is someone who appears to be dead, this instantly makes the audience guess, has the apocalypse already started? Has this man been murdered? Is he a zombie as well? This automatically hooks the audience straight from the start due to the mise-en-scene

The next shot we see is a close up of the dead man’s hands, this changed the opinions of the audience straight away and more questions have risen, is this man in prison, was he kidnapped and murdered, why is he tied up, all this is questioned but nothing has been given away by the film which makes this very effective

The next shot instantly wipes away all the questioning about what happened to the man when the camera zooms out to show a man’s arm in front of the man, this shows that this unknown man did this to the dead body, you do not see the identity of the man except for his tattoo, this might lead on to something in a later date so this gives the audience something to remember as the story progresses.

However the shot cuts instantly changes to a grave yard where all characters in the shot are wearing black, this shows that these people may be related to the guy in the previous scene and are going to bury him after his death, Actors and Crew members are shown in the scene to give the audience information into the film.

Then enter these characters, the camera are specifically showing these individual characters to show these will be important throughout the film, also these people look out of place, there costume isn't fully black outfits, there more casual and relaxed to show that these are rebellious, don’t stick to rules kind of people which may hint there part of some gang or they had something to do with the passing of the dead guy.

Suddenly the shot changed to this run down, dark, horrible look apartment building, this establishes the setting of the film and shows that the story line will be based here, This shows to the audience that even without the zombies this isn't a nice place to live which makes them feel uneasy about the story and what kind of things they’re going to see when the characters enter this place.

The character from the previous scene are then shown from a boot of a car loading up on guns and ammunition, this shows that this will be an action packed film with a lot of fighting and violence and also that these characters are expecting a fight of some sort with the people there going to kill, this shot is a worms view of them which gives off the effect that these people are big and powerful and you wouldn't want to mess with them because of it,  Also due to the armory and heavy guns the audience may think these people are cops that are doing a job to find whoever killed the man in the previous scene which makes the audience go on their side and start empathizing with them.The mise on scene shows this.

However in the following shot that assumption is quickly removed because they are now wearing face masks to hide their identities which stereotypes criminals which shows to the audience that these people aren't meant to be in that place, which now changed the opinion that they may be criminals going to commit crimes against the residents living in the apartments so the audience are left guessing.

A fight scene in a 2 person mid shot then occurs and it shows one of the characters not using their weapon which may show a little sympathy for the people they are attacking and how he doesn't want to kill anyone while doing the job, this makes the audience sympathize with this certain character because he seems like a man with a conscience so they can relate however his team mate comes along and stabs the guy he just attacked which automatically shows that some of the other characters do want to kill people which goes back to the audience feeling intimidated by these people and shows even though there the main characters, they still aren't nice people.

Title of the film is then shown to the audience in big bold colours surrounded by a black background, however the colours of the title has red in it, this represents blood and death so this shows that there will be horror and death involved in the story