2. Johnny Depp
Horror/drama films that he’s starred in:
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
• Slow Burn (1986)
• Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
• Donnie Brasco (1997)
• The Brave (1997)
• The Ninth Gate (1999)
• Sleepy Hollow (1999)
• The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
• From Hell (2001)
• Secret Window (2004)
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

3. Jamie Lee Curtis.
Horror/drama films that she’s starred in:
• Halloween (1978)
• The Fog (1980)
• Prom Night (1980)
• Terror Train (1980)
• Halloween II (1981)
• Coming Soon (1982)
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
• Virus (1999)
• 'Halloween' Unmasked 2000 (1999)
• Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

4. Christopher Lee.
Horror/drama films that he’s starred in:
• Alias John Preston (1955)
• The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
• Dracula (1958)
• Corridors of Blood (1958)
• The Mummy (1959)
• The City of the Dead (1960)
• The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
• The Hands of Orlac (1960)
• The Terror of the Tongs (1961)
• Taste of Fear (1961)
• The Gorgon (1964)
• Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
• The Skull (1965)
• Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
• Circus of Fear (1966)
• Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
• Scream and scream again (1970)
• Count Dracula (1970)
• Tale of the mummy (1998)
• Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend (2000)
• The Wicker Tree (2010)
• Dark Shadows (2012)

5. Danielle Harris.
Horror/drama films that she’s starred in:
• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
• Halloween 5 (1989)
• Urban Legend (1998)
• Halloween (2007)
• Left for Dead (2007)
• Burying the Ex (2008)
• Prank (2008)
• Halloween II (2009)
• Blood Night (2009)
• The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (2009)
• Hatchet II (2010)
• Stake Land (2010)
• Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D (2011)
• Hatchet II: Behind the Screams (2011)
• First Look: Hatchet II (2011)
• ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2 (2011)
• Devil's Night (2011)
• The Ghost of Goodnight Lane (2012)
• Hatchet III (2012)
• Hallows' Eve (2012)

6. Typical male horror/drama character. Typical female horror/drama character.
• ‘Damsel in distress’
• ‘Alpha-Male Leader’
• Usually blonde
• Strong, masculine, brave.
• Usually murdered within the first five minutes.
• Either the ‘hero’ or antagonist.
• Young women are often objectified and shown as
nothing more than sex objects.
• Serial
killer, ghost, monster, vampire, werewolf, etc. • Women can be seen defeating typically male
villains and exhibiting strength and intelligence.
• They will often wear a mask, disguising them
completely of appearance or emotion. • Women are beginning to come into their own in
the horror genre, showing that they are as strong as
• They will never react in a normal way to men and are not the sexual objects they were once
injuries; if they were to be stabbed, they perceived as.
usually manage to get back up again
• Many of the women are shown half clothed and
unharmed, hinting towards the idea of them hyper-sexualized, taking away the audience’s ability
being inhuman. to sympathise with them because they are seen as
less valuable in society.
• Rarely the victim.
• In some movies, horror has taken a better turn
toward equality for women as heroines.

7. Horror/Drama genre conventions.
Setting:
Colours:
• Small community
•Dark colours
• Isolated places
•Low lighting.
• Urban environments
•Red and black (Blood & death)
• Dark streets
• Narrow alleyways Props:
• Run down towns • Chainsaw
• ‘Dark history’ • Knife
• Abandoned buildings • Firearms
• Lakes • Antagonists mask
• Countryside • Make-up
• Haunted houses
• Asylum Narrative structure.
• Gloomy underground tunnels • Death
• Damsel in distress
• The sense of being trapped
• Embarking on a mission
• Psychological ‘games’