new and improved subtext presentation

1. Treatment 3.5
Sub text and inferred meaning
The girl with the blonde hair

2. Subtext:
Subtext refers to the deeper meaning of the film, all horror films
contain an inferred meaning, and the deeper meanings are usually
current issues in society today.

3. Terrorist grooming
The subtext for our film is based around terrorist grooming, and the
brainwashing and grooming of non Islamic individuals being preyed on
by terrorist groups to do evil. This subtext is inspired by recent events
in society, and particularity the rise in grooming for terrorism.

4. Jihadi John

5. Jihadi John
• Was an English man, and after broke up with his girlfriend and
experienced depression, decided to join a jihadi group after being
groomed online by terrorist groups
• He went on to live with the jihads, brutally killing innocent people in
the traditional jihad way, slitting there throats and beheading them.

6. Each characters and what they represent
Lorna is a the groomed victim. Experiencing depression, (shown through self-harm), She
ends her life- this is when she decides to go to the dark side- death is represented as the
terrorist groups.
When she comes back as a supernatural being, she is not herself anymore, but a deranged
individual wanting to slaughter.
The way Lorna kills her victims is in the same fashion that ‘jihadi john’ did, with focus to
the neck area, and beheading.
The age is also relevant, as Jihadi John was an ‘angelic schoolboy’ much like Lorna.
The mean girls are just the rest of western society, shown through them being
stereotypically western, and showcasing their liberation as women-The girl in the
beginning is smoking and another is taking a contraceptive pill.
Lorna’s mum represent the distraught family of people like jihadi john and other teens
groomed to join this movement.

7. Removal of Lorna’s hair:
This represents the removal of westernisation

8. Privatisation of the NHS
• 2015: speak and talk of privatisation of the NHS
• The privatisation of the NHS results in neglecting cancer patients
• This is shown through Lorna’s mother, who is clearly suffering and in a
bad way, the way she obsessively brushes Lorna’s hair
• Lorna also suffers from various mental illnesses, inferring that the
privatisation of the NHS causes The victims of illness such as cancer-
their children suffer, mental illness, weird, outcasts.

9. Obsession with appearance
The mean girls are a representation of The obsession of appearance in
western society