Sub Genres
Action horror, Body horror, Comedy horror, Gothic horror, Natural horror, Psychological horror, Science fiction horror, Slasher film, Splatter film, Zombie film
Slasher films
In class, we looked deeper into the sub-genre, Slasher films.
We looked at the conventions of Slasher films, they have conventions such as...
- Fast-paced
- Horror sub-genre - Stimulates viewers mood - heightened levels of anticipation, fear, dread, anxiety, surprise, terror
- Villain - Mysterious psychopathic killer, serial killer (strong, mentally deranged, physically deformed, stalks and kills victims, violent and brutal, uses weapons such as knife, chainsaw, meat cleaver), identity - known/unknown- the "who dunnit" genre, twist at the end
- Location - very isolated
- Victims - college teens, rebellious, unaware of surroundings
- Hero - female, sensible, senses killer. last woman standing, may/not be killed at the end
- Thriller conventions - tension, suspense
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