Three Credit Sequences from Psychological thriller films!
Don't Worry Darling (2022)
-In this credit sequence, they show very dystopian images such as identical houses in a roundabout. It starts with a clip of a car pulling into the driveway with very dark exposure and lighting. While this clip is occurring, this very elegant and pretty font (cursive) appears on the screen but glitches, indicating that even though it may be pretty there must be something wrong. The fonts change into a more formal and straight font while they go through the credits but the videos in the background are glitching and moving around. What I noticed a lot of though, is the amount of unison in the video; the same houses, a dance routine where girls are in a circle and dancing perfectly aligned, and more. Throughout the sequence, we see everything and all the clips follow like a rustic type of vintage color scheme to tell the audience what timeline they're setting. The vibe becomes creepy when they show split screens of disturbing images such as half of the screen pouring wine into a glass cup and the other half being microscopic red cells expanding. During the entirety of the credit sequence, a really creepy song plays in the background, making the entirety of the scene more disturbing.
The Silence of The Lambs (1991)
-In this credit sequence, the scene begins in a dark and eerie forest. The background music is a subtle yet dark classical song. The scene shows a woman running frantically up a mountain using a rope to help herself up. It seems as if she's running away from something until she starts climbing nets for exercise. She jumps over logs to do exercise and continues running until she's stopped by a patrol officer and is told to meet somebody in their office. It seems as if she's in some sort of program or bootcamp. During the credit scene, a casual and outlined all upper cased font is displayed, showing casualty. We are later shown that she is in an FBI program. The scene ends where the girl is waiting in an office but looking into the distance, leaving us viewers with a mystery.
The Black Swan (2010)
-In this credit sequence, every graphic is shown in black and white only. The background music is a dramatic and orchestral ballet type of song. The font is a very basic yet classy font that looks like the infamous "Times New Roman" font. We can only infer from this scene that it is about swans or birds as a paper swan floats across the screen and as black feathers fall from above. The title appears in a bright white kind of radiating font, it appears dramatically against realistic black feathers instead of the graphic and animated ones from before. As the title approaches, the music gets stronger and louder and builds up to momentum, but once the title is revealed, the music simmers down into a more calm version of the intense orchestral from the start.
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