Monday, 24 September 2012

Conventions of the Horror Genre

Locations
Basement, wilderness, abandoned houses, London underground, barns, trains/tunnels, hotels/motels, highways, ghost house, woods, abandoned theme park, diner, graveyard, holiday homes, abandoned town.

Props
Murder weapons (eg.chainsaw, sword, crowbar, axes, hatchet, pick), body parts, candles, voodoo dolls, radio (white noise), spiders/webs, light switch, telephone, non-starting car, corpses, door handle, skeleton, electric chair, medicine, ouiji board

Characters
Loving couples, happy families, innocent child (innocent victim), mysterious characters, mutated characters, care free teenagers, zombie, non believer, masked character, ghosts/spirits, hysterical female, last girl standing, male villain, hero, priest, unnatural

Themes
Good vs Evil, Revenge, Religion, depression, science gone bad, childhood issues, lust, envy, suicide, zombie apocalypse, nightmares

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