powerpoint for slasher movies

1. What has slasher movies always involved
• Jump scares
• Tension that’s created from the audience seeing things that the characters in the movie
don’t see. This is made even more so when the movie does its job of having the audience
connect to the protagonist. Leading them to have such outbursts as “don’t go into the
closet”
• Beautiful American, mostly idiotic, adolescent kids.
• Guy chasing someone or a group of people in a mask
• Grisly gore that has an impact on the audience.
• One character must go off alone whether or not they are the first to die has changed over
the years with movies like Friday the 13th clearly showing the camp member who for
whatever reason decides right now is a brilliant time to go for a dip in the lake dying first to
movies like cabin in the woods where them being alone doesn’t necessarily mean they’re
going to die first
• A blast from the past: Something tragic and memorable happening prior to the actual main
story and the characters now grown up have forgotten all about this. This then comes back
to haunt them usually something horrible happens to a person, that person then comes back
to be the killer.

2. What has slasher movies always involved
They once involved the characters having to Obey a series of rigid rules and conventions
• If you have sex you die
• If you drink you die
• If you do narcotics or denote yourself as a rebellious teen in some way you’re probably going
to die
• The creepy theme tunes of the killer. Psyho, piercing string music), the omen, saw, Michael
Myers all to famous theme tune
• Idealistic urban neighbourhood
• Someone would be lurking and at any moment it could leap out and get you
• Special effects
• Over the top murder scenes
• A chilling sucker punch ending
• Folklore on monsters and fairytales.

3. Horror movies now
• It’s fear in real life, unlike things like zombies, monster, supernatural etc. that was once used, instead it’s an
actual evil thing a person usually in the real world capable of unspeakable things trying to kill you
• Special effects
• Over the top murder scenes
• Gore and violence is slasher. If it doesn’t have this then it’s not a slasher and barely a horror
• Make up
• You have to convince yourself that what you’re seeing is not going to happen to you. As though you have to talk
yourself into using logic and understanding the fact that you’re not a part of a group of friends in the wood who
have been involved in acts that would be seen as adult, rebellious or reckless and that there isn’t a chaotic killer
with a blood first about to pick you off one by one.
• The guy next door being more than what meets the eye he could be the killer
• The monster could look like us
• The head-screwed-on-right “good girl” character of the final girl except in scream by wes craven where she
turns into something a little more real (Steve Neal ‘genres evolve’). She’s more of a teen, with lust and desire as
she has sex with her boyfriend billy.
• A blast from the past: Something tragic and memorable happening prior to the actual main story and the
characters now grown up have forgotten all about this. This then comes back to haunt them usually something
horrible happens to a person, that person then comes back to be the killer.

4. Timeline of the biggest slasher genre movies
• Texas chainsaw massacre (1971)
• Halloween (1978)
• Prom night (1980)
• Terror train (1980)
• Scream (1996)
• A nightmare on elm street (1984)
• Psycho (1960)
• I know what you did last sumer (1997)
• Friday the 13th
• Childs play (1988)

5. Most horror movies now
• Slasher films now are all about the remakes, the parodies, the ever so slightly similar films
that are based of huge successes. Such as scream, prom night, saw etc. most slasher films
nowadays take the approach of focusing and going all out on the visuals. Attempting to make
each new gory death more gruesome and memorable than the last, even if that does mean
going to obsessive, over the top and sometimes downright just unbelievable lengths to do
so. This tends to happen when scares that have been repeated, revived and remade have
been rinsed out to death and can no longer provoke the audience to leap out of their seat
and run out of the movie theatre for a quick five-minute breather. So instead the approach
of stunning the audience and sometimes making them physically cringe and feel sick has
been taken over shocking the audience and making them pee their pants.

6. Most horror movies now
The killer
• The killers somewhat stayed the same with a chaotic, hidden, weapon wielding, teen
hating, slightly misogynistic, merciless, and downright evil male usually playing the part.
Although nowadays whereas the killers where usually shown to be less human and
more similar to a monster with very little to show for having a normal life now the killer
is more human than ever usually reaching unthinkable psychotic heights that the
audience didn’t think humans were actually capable off. For example, with cabin in the
woods, at first the killers are shown to be the murderous monsters picking of the
vacationing group one by one but are actually discovered to be the humans dressed in
work clothes hidden in the safety of the control room where they find pleasure in
seeing their victims run away from their impending doom. Even making bets on which
movie convention would be filled out by which unwilling teen. The killer in the slasher
classics quite quiet and rather mute his approach at hunting the kids down was done
without the need for a bone-chilling maniacal laugh and as little dialogue as possible
but in recent years this has changed with monsters visibly and verbally expressing the
pleasure they get from the many crimes they commit, especially when this comes to
torture scenes

7. Most horror movies now
• The hero
• Protagonists nowadays in horror movies usually fall to their being a ‘final girl’ , despite most of
them usually being highly misogynistic and largely objectifying towards woman most slasher
movies involve very strong female leads that usually overcome the male antagonist despite her
initially being apart of the group that the antagonist intended to kill, although there is the fact
that she is different from the rest she’s smarter, strong willed and doesn’t give into her feelings
of lust so easy.
• the final girl is the only one left out of a group
• She usually has a unisex name
• Sometimes there can be relationships between the killer and the final girl
• Usually masculinized, not feminine, not fragile, smarter and usually wears less make-up.
• The final battle between the two shows the sexual frustration of the killer and the virgin finally
reach its climax. Usually phallic objects in use so if the girl kills the killer with his knife then its
almost as if she's taken his masculinity away.