NW: Moodboard - Psychological

Key Iconography Of Psychological Horror

• Old houses in isolated locations tend to be conventional in the psychological horror sub genre, they often have broken windows, damp and dirty walls and are surrounded by overgrown woodland.  
• Women and girls feature a lot in psychological films either as the protagonist or as a tool to create fear, like the girls in the beginning of The Woman in Black who are possessed and jump out the window. They often are young girls who wear innocent, pretty dresses and have old fashioned dolls but they tend to have a possessed look about them which the audience can link to the conventions of a psychological genre.
• Mist, fog, darkness and rain are used when shot outside which is conventional for almost any horror film, psychological especially as it makes the audience feel trapped within the film in the bad weather conditions, even when its filmed inside, the sound effects of rain and wind suggest the overbearing weather outside.
• Extreme close up shots are used to convey the emotion of the characters faces, whether it be fear, shock, terror or insanity and madness.