A highly suspenseful scene in the film would be the
extension of the original kitchen cupboard scene. Suspense is created by
drawing out the revelation of the ghost from Cole’s point of view. The series
of shots at the beginning of this scene are from an objective point of view.
When Cole senses the ghost, and walks toward the kitchen we cut to his
subjective point of view. Once the ghost woman turns around, the spectator is
shown the spirit, as Cole sees them all, battered, bruised, and wounded. The non-diegetic
music becomes louder as the camera cuts into a close-up of the woman’s slashed
wrists and she starts screaming at Cole. What she says has nothing to do with
Cole. She perceives Cole as if he were her abusive husband. Unlike the previous
supernatural accuracies so far in the film, there is no violence in the world
of the living. Cole’s fear is based on her accusing diegetic scream, but it is
not directed at him. Cole takes refuge in his tent sanctuary. Once inside the
tent, the camera remains with Cole, while the female ghost remains in the
kitchen. Frightened as he might be of her, she is shown to pose no physical
threat to him. From this incident, onwards, the ghosts may be frightening to
look at, but the malevolent aspect bestowed on them earlier disappears.
Instead, the monsters of the earlier part of the film are rendered from this
point on as lost souls searching for answers.
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