Research of Opening Scene - The Exorcist

In this opening scene of The Exorcist it is set at night outside looking onto a house and on of the lights from a room turns off. This first shows the house looking creepy with all the light off and spooky in the dark. This is also a clear sign that something odd and weird happens within the house. The audience then looks down onto the street while a couple walk past the house, this suggests that theirs more than meets the eye in this film and the house just looks like any normal house when walking by. The lamp post which is shown in the poster for the film apaears outside so this gives the audience a clue that the film is about something in this house shown. The name of the movie and the director is show on a black background with red letters. This is a very stereotypical in a horror film , black dark background and red letter which is a symbol of blood.