The film starts with non-diegetic organ music and once the credits start rolling the music switches to low, tense non-diegetic music. The camera pans, showing the location which is 19th century London, this helps create tension as the music is tense and the lighting is low. The camera then zooms into one of the houses and we see a chair in the middle of the room by itself and blood drips down from above and also runs through some sort of machine. This again creates the horror/drama theme as it creates tension and gives us the idea that violence is going to be involved. The rest of the film opening involves the camera panning around the inside of the house that we're shown earlier with blood dripping down the walls. All of these generic conventions put together create the genre of horror/drama as the music and hints throughout the opening reveal to us that the film will involve lots of tension and something gory/violent will happen.
