2. Horror
• The genre horror seeks to create fear from the
audience by playing on its primal fears. Scenes
often startle and shock audience with the use
of macabre and supernatural themes. These
themes generally overlap with the fantasy,
supernatural and thriller genres.
3. Conventions of Horror
• The settings of horror films are generally in
isolated such as urban areas like back alleys, small
villages, rundown asylums
• Supernatural beings are used in horrors film to
create a sense of abnormality.
• Props such as knifes are used a lot in horror films
creating fear through it being an everyday object
and it being easily accessible to anyone.
• Lot of gruesome deaths and blood are used in
horror films, quite macabre
4. Target audience
• Horror films in my opinion are aimed at young
adults between the ages of 16 to 25.
• The high amount of blood and gore used in
horror movie relates to young adults as they are a
generation who play computer games that are
filled with very macabre conventions.
• The films are mainly targeted on male audiences
as they use very attractive women which are then
killed. A theory suggests that man get a sexual
urge from seeing females suffer.
5. How has Horror developed over time
• Since it began in the 1920s, the genre of horror has changed
dramatically.
• There is not just one type of horror it has been split in to different
sections:
• The fake documentary
• The mass infestation
• The unknown and building of terror
• Creatures from beyond
• Gore
• Serial killer
• All these different types of horror offer different types of audiences,
different types of horror making horror the most developed genre
out of all genres.
