PHYSOC=LOGICAL SUPERNATURAL
HISTORY OF THEM
CONVENTIONS OF PHYCOLOGICAL HOORRA


As a group we have decided to prepare and film a horror film, we have made it a physcological/supernatural horror, we chose to do this due to the fact the phycological films are more realistic and beilevable. So we thought that by creating and preparing a film in which will be beilevable.
A physcological horror film are movies that rely more on messing with your mind than on gore and violence. I think they are more scary because they often deal with things that could actually happen, or they tap into basic human fears. As a Supernatural horror film includes: ghosts, wolves, demons, witches etc. These are more about scaring the audience by using things that are scary, where as phsycological films use things that occur in real life like mental illnesses.

History of supernatural films: 

• the late 30s Topper (1937), with Cary Grant and Constance Bennett as George and Marion Kerby, a mischievous ghostly couple who, after a car accident, bedevil stuffy banker Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) (with a nagging wife (Billie Burke)) into having a new zest for life; the ghosts are invisible to everyone but Topper; followed by two sequels to complete the Hal Roach Studios trilogy (Topper Takes a Trip (1939) and Topper Returns (1941)), a TV series starring Leo G. Carroll, and a television movie in 1979
• the classic fantasy romantic comedy Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), a Best Picture Oscar nominee with Robert Montgomery as soprano saxophone-playing, champion boxer Joe Pendleton who is killed in a fighter plane crash, but in Heaven is told there's been a mix-up and he has shown up 50 years before his time, due to an error by an inexperienced and scatterbrained heavenly messenger (Edward Everett Horton); celestial bookkeeper Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains) sends him back to Earth, where his body has already been cremated, so he must inhabit the body of a soon-to-be murdered millionaire crook; the film was remade twice - as a semi-sequel musical Down to Earth (1947) with Rita Hayworth, and most recently inspiring Warren Beatty's updated Heaven Can Wait (1978)with the sport changed to pro football (Joe Pendleton's position was quarterback for the LA Rams) - this was the third teaming of Beatty with Julie Christie (following their appearances in McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Shampoo (1975))
• Abbott and Costello's haunted/abandoned house comedy Hold That Ghost (1941), the second (released third) of their feature films
• French director Rene Clair's best Hollywood picture I Married a Witch (1942) with Veronica Lake as a sexy Salem witch (previously burned at the stake) who, with her sorcerer father, returns to haunt the descendant (Fredric March) of her condemning Puritan accusers, but then romance develops; the film may be the basis for the popular TV series Bewitched
• Ernst Lubitsch's witty, Technicolor fantasy/comedy Heaven Can Wait (1943), the director's first film in color; about a recently-deceased former lothario (Don Ameche) who recounts his sexual philandering life history in Hell to the Devil - His Excellency (Laird Creger)
• Noel Coward's and David Lean's British fantasy/supernatural comedy farce Blithe Spirit (1945) with an innovative use of color cinematography to accentuate the ghosts; about the eccentric, mischievous ghost (Kay Hammond) of a novelist's (Rex Harrison) 1st wife who attempts to break up his 2nd marriage to a strait-laced woman (Constance Cummings), and the efforts of a medium (Margaret Rutherford) to exorcise the offending spirit
• in the Technicolor, Goldwyn-produced Wonder Man (1945), Danny Kaye starred as identical twins with strikingly-different personalities: a timid bespectacled librarian and a nightclub emcee (who became a ghostly spirit and then entered his brother's body)
• the much-loved, all-time Christmas classic  It's A Wonderful Life (1946), with guardian angel Clarence (Henry Travers) who convinces a despairing, small-town good man/bank manager (James Stewart) to refrain from suicide by showing him how wretched the town would have been without him
• the sentimental angel tale The Bishop's Wife (1947) with an overworked and harrassed bishop (David Niven), his neglected wife (Loretta Young), and an angelic suave stranger (Cary Grant) who helps the bishop raise money for a new church; remade in director Penny Marshall's The Preacher's Wife (1996)
• Joseph Mankiewicz' turn of the century romantic fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), about a young and independent, but lonely widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) who discovers a salty, hot-tempered naval captain (Rex Harrison) as a ghostly presence in her English seaside Gull Cottage

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