Semiotic Analysis of Valak and Lorraine in “The Conjuring 2” Movie

Abstract

This research offers a broad semiotical overview of the horror film, Conjuring 2. Horror films aim to bring the audience to deep fear. Therefore, these out of our complacency in the quotidian world, by way of negative emotions such as horror, fear, suspense, terror, and disgust, that are represented in films. To do so, horror addresses fears that are both universally taboo and that also respond to historically and culturally specific anxieties. This research focuses on the main characters, Valak and Lorraine, who lead this film to be a horror. This research is the result of an exploration into the literary reviews of the contemporary horror genre and a semiotic analysis a paranormal, Lorraine. This research concerned with the presence of material bodies in the performing sign and code of binary opposition by using signified and signifier theory. The results show that there are a few ethical and semiotic problems related to reality's ability to actually take place within, and to break through, fictional representations identified by signs.