1. CONVENTIONS OF HORROR
FILMS

2. STOCK CHARACTERS
• Innocent Child
• Suspicious female
• Zombie • Mentally deranged killer
• Loved up couple • Non believer
• Masked killer • Evil deformed murderer
• Psychopathic Villain • Stalker
• Slays victim
• Last girl standing
• Child who sees things
• Hero others cannot.
• Serial killer • Teenagers
• Ghosts

3. STOCK CHARACTERS

4. STOCK CHARACTERS
Last Girl Standing:
The Texas Chainsaw
Scream Halloween
Massacare

5. STOCK PLOTS/SITUATION/ISSUES/THEMES
• Evil creature kills people
• Warnings that are ignored with unfortunate consequences
• Serial killer stalks and slays victim
• Seeing things no one else can
• Child abuse
• Torture
• Deaths of innocent people
• Mentally insane
• Imaginary friend is real
• Super natural
• Romantic horrors

6. STOCK ISSUES
• Good vs Evil
• Revenge
• Religion
• Depression
• Lust
• Envy
• Suicide
• Zombie
• Apocalypse
• Nightmares
• Childhood issues

7. STOCK LOCATIONS AND BACKDROPS
• Abandoned houses • Trains/Tunnels
• Barns • Graveyard
• Hotels/Motels • Abandoned towns
• Basements • London
• Abandoned theme park undergrounds
• Woods • Gas Stations
• Diner • Cornfields
• Holiday homes • Ghost town
• Highway • Attics

8. STOCK PROPS

9. STOCK PROPS
• Voodoo dolls • Radio (with noise)
• Skeletons • Corpses
• Body parts • Mirror
• Door handle • Spider webs
• Non-starting car • Masks
• Telephone • Rope
• Weapons; sword, knife,
• Medicine
hatchet, chainsaw, axe
• Light switch
• Electric chair
• Electric chair • Candles- go out to darkness