10 Horror Movie Scenes Shot In A Single Take
4. Most Of The Film (Again) - Utøya: July 22
It's already been stated how long takes can make an audience member feel more connected to the events on screen, which is why this fictionalised version of the 2011 mass shooting at the Utøya youth camp in Norway is so damn scary.
After setting off a car bomb in Oslo, killer Anders Breivik travelled to a nearby summer camp for teenagers, where he shot and murdered 69 people. It remains one of the darkest days in the country's modern history and, seven years later, the events were adapted into a film.
Utøya: July 22 was directed by Erik Poppe, one of Norway's most revered filmmakers. He took the decision to present most of the story as a single, unbroken take, following a student called Kaja as she experiences the terror. It's not an easy watch at all, but it is an undeniably bold take on such a devastating and relatively recent tragedy.
Whilst not a horror in the strict sense, the use of the long take in Utøya: July 22 creates feelings of fear that few genre examples