Analysis of a scene from the 6th sense

In one of our lessons last week we looked at the scene in the 6th sense where the boy goes into the dead girls room, we learned that different means are used to build fear and suspense such as the non diagetic music as the boy slowly reaches for the door handle. By him reaching slowly this builds suspense and as we see his reflection in the door handle this is all used to scare us.

We are then inside the room and we see lots of dolls and a hospital bed, the slow moving child and the dark lighting is also used to build suspense and fear. This whole scene lasts around 3 minutes which is a long time in media terms, when the girl finally jumps out from under the bed we have been waiting for this moment for a while therefore scaring us a lot more.