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The document discusses common iconography in horror films, including the use of weapons like knives and chainsaws by killers, the depiction of blood to show violence, the tendency to feature female victims who are often scantily clad before being killed, and the inclusion of devils and demons to make the films seem more realistic by tapping into religious beliefs.
Research of stock characters
The document summarizes several common stock characters that are often seen in slasher horror movies. These include the stranger, who arrives in town around the same time as murders begin; the wanderer, who explores dangerous areas and is usually killed; and the jock, who is popular but overconfident and meets an early demise. Other characters discussed are the popular girl who is not very smart; Pandora, who appears innocent but may be deceiving; the final girl, who survives to defeat the killer; and the pervert, whose death is also predictable.
Sub genre horror
The document discusses several subgenres of horror films, including action horror which combines guns, violence, zombies, demons, and ghosts; comedy horror which uses black comedy to satirize horror conventions; slasher horror which features a serial killer targeting teenagers with a weapon, often wearing a scary mask; zombie horror where a disease turns people into flesh-eating zombies; and paranormal horror where ghosts, spirits or devils control humans' bodies, often using children to increase fear. Examples of films that fall into each subgenre are provided.
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1. Agustiana Dewi Anggraeni
2. Erlita Rachmi Susanti
3. Novitasari
4. Selly Rachman
Narrative theories
Vladimir Propp analyzed Russian folktales and identified common narrative elements, concluding that characters can be classified into 7 broad types. Tzvetan Todorov proposed that all storylines follow 5 basic patterns: equilibrium, disruption, realization, restored order, and re-equilibrium. Claude Levi-Strauss analyzed how narratives are structured around the conflict between opposites such as hero vs villain. Examples are given applying Propp's 7 character types to The Avengers and Todorov's 5 patterns to The Hunger Games.
Movie theories
Vladimir Propp argued that every story contains 7 character archetypes - the princess needing rescue, the hero who saves her, the villain causing problems, a false hero, a helper, a dispatcher sending people on quests, and a donor providing assistance. Tzvetan Todorov's narrative theory outlines 5 stages in every story - equilibrium at the start, a disruption happening, recognizing the disruption, attempting to repair it, and achieving a new equilibrium. The Vampire Diaries and Tinkerbell are examples that follow Todorov's 5 stage structure.
Horror sub-genres
This document discusses several sub-genres of horror films including: zombie films which portray reanimated corpses or mindless humans; psychological horror which relies on exposing psychological vulnerabilities; gothic horror which combines romance and suspense; slasher films which involve a psychopathic killer murdering a sequence of victims; splatter films which focus on graphic violence and gore; comedy horror which combines humor and horror; and body horror which features graphic destruction or abnormality of the human body. Examples are provided for each sub-genre.
Genre analysis
This document discusses different genres and subgenres of horror films. It begins by defining the horror genre as seeking to elicit negative emotions through primal fears inspired by authors like Poe, Stoker, and Shelley. Key elements include the macabre, supernatural, ghosts, monsters, and serial killers. Subgenres discussed include action horror, comedy horror, body horror, and psychological horror. Comedy-horror blends comedy with traditional horror themes. Teen-horror revolves around teenagers facing suspenseful situations. Monster films center on a struggle between humans and a created monster.
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The document discusses common iconography in horror films, including the use of weapons like knives and chainsaws by killers, the depiction of blood to show violence, the tendency to feature female victims who are often scantily clad before being killed, and the inclusion of devils and demons to make the films seem more realistic by tapping into religious beliefs.
Research of stock characters
The document summarizes several common stock characters that are often seen in slasher horror movies. These include the stranger, who arrives in town around the same time as murders begin; the wanderer, who explores dangerous areas and is usually killed; and the jock, who is popular but overconfident and meets an early demise. Other characters discussed are the popular girl who is not very smart; Pandora, who appears innocent but may be deceiving; the final girl, who survives to defeat the killer; and the pervert, whose death is also predictable.
Sub genre horror
The document discusses several subgenres of horror films, including action horror which combines guns, violence, zombies, demons, and ghosts; comedy horror which uses black comedy to satirize horror conventions; slasher horror which features a serial killer targeting teenagers with a weapon, often wearing a scary mask; zombie horror where a disease turns people into flesh-eating zombies; and paranormal horror where ghosts, spirits or devils control humans' bodies, often using children to increase fear. Examples of films that fall into each subgenre are provided.
EXPRESSING SCARED
ENGLISH FOR INTERPERSONAL AND INTERACTION
2nd GROUP
1. Agustiana Dewi Anggraeni
2. Erlita Rachmi Susanti
3. Novitasari
4. Selly Rachman
Narrative theories
Vladimir Propp analyzed Russian folktales and identified common narrative elements, concluding that characters can be classified into 7 broad types. Tzvetan Todorov proposed that all storylines follow 5 basic patterns: equilibrium, disruption, realization, restored order, and re-equilibrium. Claude Levi-Strauss analyzed how narratives are structured around the conflict between opposites such as hero vs villain. Examples are given applying Propp's 7 character types to The Avengers and Todorov's 5 patterns to The Hunger Games.
Movie theories
Vladimir Propp argued that every story contains 7 character archetypes - the princess needing rescue, the hero who saves her, the villain causing problems, a false hero, a helper, a dispatcher sending people on quests, and a donor providing assistance. Tzvetan Todorov's narrative theory outlines 5 stages in every story - equilibrium at the start, a disruption happening, recognizing the disruption, attempting to repair it, and achieving a new equilibrium. The Vampire Diaries and Tinkerbell are examples that follow Todorov's 5 stage structure.
Horror sub-genres
This document discusses several sub-genres of horror films including: zombie films which portray reanimated corpses or mindless humans; psychological horror which relies on exposing psychological vulnerabilities; gothic horror which combines romance and suspense; slasher films which involve a psychopathic killer murdering a sequence of victims; splatter films which focus on graphic violence and gore; comedy horror which combines humor and horror; and body horror which features graphic destruction or abnormality of the human body. Examples are provided for each sub-genre.
Genre analysis
This document discusses different genres and subgenres of horror films. It begins by defining the horror genre as seeking to elicit negative emotions through primal fears inspired by authors like Poe, Stoker, and Shelley. Key elements include the macabre, supernatural, ghosts, monsters, and serial killers. Subgenres discussed include action horror, comedy horror, body horror, and psychological horror. Comedy-horror blends comedy with traditional horror themes. Teen-horror revolves around teenagers facing suspenseful situations. Monster films center on a struggle between humans and a created monster.
Expressions about fear
The document discusses words and expressions used to describe fear. It lists common words like afraid, frightened, scared, and expressions like "send shivers down my spine" and "make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up." It provides examples of using the words and expressions, including discussing the horror film "The Blair Witch Project" and how certain scenes made the viewers feel uneasy or frightened.
Stock characters in horror films
This document summarizes several common stock characters that appear in horror films. The wanderer is an aimless traveler who explores unfamiliar places and is often the first killed. The popular girl is well-liked but her popularity makes her vulnerable. The jock is an athletic leader of the group. The final girl is usually the last surviving female who confronts the killer. Pandora figures unlock dangerous secrets. The pervert is a sexually motivated male who dies early, highlighting that immoral acts will be punished.
Horror film planning
The document contains summaries of potential horror film ideas and planning for a teen horror film project. It describes settings at a haunted hilltop school where the possessed caretaker kidnaps and steals students' souls. Additional sections provide details on filming a teen horror project in a school setting and include props and clothing needed. A questionnaire found that comedy horror was the most popular horror genre among respondents.
Evaluation question2
The document discusses the main female character Raven in the opening sequence. Compared to typical thriller female characters who are damsels in distress, Raven defies stereotypes by being able to protect herself. While she shows some fear, a conventional female trait, she channels it into strength. Raven is also dressed in atypical "delinquent clothes" rather than the usual white worn by pure female characters. She challenges theories that women only exist for male amusement by not dressing in a sexually appealing way but to portray female strength. Overall Raven subverts expectations of weak, scared females needing rescue by being able to defend herself.
Narrative theory
Vladimir Propp analyzed over 100 Russian fairytales and identified 7 main character types based on their roles and functions. These include the hero, villain, donor, dispatcher, false hero, helper, and princess. Propp's theory is often subverted in horror films where the goal is survival rather than reward, though there is usually a villain who must be defeated. Tzvetan Torodov suggested narratives start with equilibrium, are disrupted, then resolve with the protagonist restoring normality. Claude Levi-Strauss believed binary opposites like good/evil create narrative conflict and resolution. Roland Barthes identified 5 codes - hermeneutic, proairetic, semantic, symbolic, cultural - that allow readers
Drafting Of Ideas
This document outlines three potential story ideas for film trailers. It provides character and setting details for each idea. The first involves friends investigating a supposedly haunted school at night. The second is about bullies who go looking for a girl they tortured in the woods. The third centers around two girls having a forest party that is interrupted by a stalker hunting them. The document writer had others vote on their preferred trailer idea. Trailer 3, about the stalking in the forest, received the most votes so that is the one the writer chose to develop.
Horror Movie Posters Analysis
This document summarizes and analyzes three horror movie posters: Rosemary's Baby (1968), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), and Hostel (2005).
For Rosemary's Baby, the poster sets a chilling tone through its use of a green color and silhouette imagery that hints at something being out of balance with an innocent child as the cause of fright.
For I Know What You Did Last Summer, the poster creates mystery through its use of blues and a faceless threatening figure, suggesting the threat of "backyard horror" in everyday life. It also plays on teen horror movie tropes.
For Hostel, the poster contrasts the warmth of yellow lighting with the weapon-w
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This document discusses compound sentences. A compound sentence contains at least two independent clauses joined together with a coordinating conjunction such as "for", "and", "nor", "but", "or", "yet", or "so". It provides examples of compound sentences that meet the criteria of having two complete sentences joined by a comma and one of the FANBOYS conjunctions. It also discusses combining simple sentences into compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions.
Clover’s final girl theory
Carol Clover developed the "Final Girl" theory to describe the last female character who confronts the killer in horror films, especially slashers. The Final Girl is often a virgin or sexually unavailable, smart, and curious. She survives to tell the story. For example, in Scream, Sidney Prescott fits this role as the intelligent virgin teenager who fights back against the killer across multiple films, growing stronger each time.
Psycological horror presentation
This document analyzes the psychological horror film "You're Next" through discussing its conventions and techniques. It summarizes the plot, examines character types and representations through mise-en-scene elements. It also analyzes themes, settings, and how the film creates fear through plausible events, human villains portrayed in a realistic way, and gory realistic deaths. The purpose is to bring psychological fear and disturb the audience.
Narrative
Todorov's narrative theory states that stories follow a pattern of equilibrium, disruption, then restoration of order. This structure fits the thriller genre, where normal life is disrupted by an event like a killing. The film then shows the protagonist working to resolve the problem until social norms are restored. The document discusses applying this theory to structure a film trailer about a girl who goes from normal to killer. It also references Propp's and Levi-Strauss' theories about character functions and binary opposites to further inform the trailer's development.
The Final Girl Theory by Carol J. Clover
The document discusses Carol J. Clover's "final girl" theory about horror films. The theory proposes that slasher films usually have a sole female survivor who confronts and challenges the killer at the end of the movie. This "final girl" tends to be intelligent, curious, and determined to survive. Examples given include Laurie Strode from Halloween and Sidney Prescott from Scream. The character of Ginny from Friday the 13th Part 2 is analyzed as exemplifying the traits of the resourceful "final girl."
Conventionsin horror
There are conventions that horror directors often follow that have resulted in criticisms of predictability. Settings are commonly suburban neighborhoods which amplify fears of something terrifying happening nearby, or isolated locations that manipulate fears of solitude. Horror movies also use icons like weapons to distinguish villains, religious symbols to represent struggles of good vs evil, and archetypal characters like families and corrupted children to explore themes of vulnerability and lost innocence.
The final girl theory
The document discusses Carol J. Clover's "Final Girl Theory" about horror film tropes. It notes that Clover identified viewers initially share perspectives of both the killer and victims but come to solely identify with the "final girl" - the last surviving female. The main plot of horror films involves a group of victims being hunted one by one by a killer until only one, a final girl, is left to kill the killer or escape. The final girl is often sexually unavailable and pursues the killer actively through curiosity and intelligence, taking on masculine traits like weapons. For a horror film to succeed, it needs the final girl to express abject terror, as viewers would reject this emotion coming from a male character.
Narrative theory in relation to Halloween (chn)
The document discusses several theories about narrative structure and how they apply to the film Halloween. It summarizes that Todorov's theory of equilibrium, disruption, attempted restoration, and new equilibrium is subverted in Halloween as the disruption occurs at the very start. It also analyzes how some but not all of Propp's character archetypes are present in the film. Finally, it examines how Straus' concept of binary opposites between good and evil, day and night are reflected in the film through the hero Laurie and villain Michael Myers.
Horror genre representations
This document discusses representations of different groups in horror films. It notes that males are often portrayed as heroic protagonists but also as villains, while females are usually shown as the "weaker" gender. A common trope is the "final girl" who is the last survivor. Regarding age, children are typically endangered while needing rescue, and older characters tend to be evil antagonists providing wisdom before being killed. Nationality, religion, sexual orientation and ethnicity are also mentioned as representations that can be positive or negative depending on the film's context.
Narrative
This document discusses several narrative theories and how they apply to teen slasher films. It analyzes Todorov's narrative structure of equilibrium, disruption, recognition, and new equilibrium. While most films follow this structure, teen slashers are more irregular in their ordering. It also examines Propp's character types and narrative functions, noting teen slashers don't always have clear heroes and have multiple "princess" characters. Finally, it applies Levi-Strauss' concept of binary oppositions and Barthes' "enigma code" to teen slasher conventions like revealing the killer's identity.
Research Stock Characters
This document discusses several common character archetypes found in horror movies:
The jock is an athletic, popular character who often acts invincible but tends to die early in the film. The final girl is the sole survivor, who is strong-willed and influential. The popular girl is confident and the center of male attention, often friends with the final girl. The wanderer explores surroundings inquisitively but needs supervision, making them likely to die first. The geek provides reason but may help defeat the villain. The pervert negatively pursues girls and is targeted by the villain. These stock characters are crucial to horror films by making the audience able to identify with people in the movie.
Horror genre poster
The first display of supernatural horror films occurred in the late 1890s in silent shorts by George Melies, notably "La Manoir du diable", considered one of the first horror films. In the early 20th century, Universal Studios produced successful Gothic horror films like "Frankenstein", "The Mummy", and "Dracula" that were designed to thrill and frighten audiences. The 1960s featured some of the best-known horror movies that pushed boundaries with more controversial levels of violence and sexuality during the social revolution. British director Alfred Hitchcock created the first "slasher" film with "Psycho" in 1960.
Genre Research
Slasher films typically feature a psychopathic killer who murders a group of people, often young adults engaging in illicit activities. The victims are usually stalked and killed violently in graphic scenes. Slasher films take place in isolated locations like forests or abandoned buildings that hinder the victims' ability to get help. Common characteristics of slasher films explored in the document include the remote settings of the killings, traits of the young victim characters, and how lighting, costumes, and the unidentified killer contribute to the suspense and horror of the genre.
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The document analyzes the representation of characters in horror films based on location, ethnicity, gender, and age. It describes the setting of the film as a lab, implying the characters are educated scientists rather than working class. It notes that white female characters are typically strong and determined professionals like scientists or doctors, while the white female in this film seems more relaxed and talkative than driven. The black male character follows a common trope of being the first to make a mistake and get killed, acting as a heroic sacrifice. Men are usually portrayed as dominant and willing to fight threats, though the male character here is distracted by his work. Main female leads in horror tend to be determined teenagers but this character is laidback and survives by
Genre Research Presentation
Horror films aim to provoke negative emotions in viewers by tapping into primal fears of death, the supernatural, and the unknown. Slasher films are a subgenre of horror that feature a psychopathic killer stalking and brutally murdering a group of people, usually teenagers, in an isolated location. Key characteristics of slasher films include identifiable victims, a "final girl" survivor, and the establishment of iconic killer characters like Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger during the subgenre's popularity in the late 1970s and 1980s. By the 1990s, slasher films incorporated more comedy and parody elements to engage bored audiences.
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Expressions about fear
The document discusses words and expressions used to describe fear. It lists common words like afraid, frightened, scared, and expressions like "send shivers down my spine" and "make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up." It provides examples of using the words and expressions, including discussing the horror film "The Blair Witch Project" and how certain scenes made the viewers feel uneasy or frightened.
Stock characters in horror films
This document summarizes several common stock characters that appear in horror films. The wanderer is an aimless traveler who explores unfamiliar places and is often the first killed. The popular girl is well-liked but her popularity makes her vulnerable. The jock is an athletic leader of the group. The final girl is usually the last surviving female who confronts the killer. Pandora figures unlock dangerous secrets. The pervert is a sexually motivated male who dies early, highlighting that immoral acts will be punished.
Horror film planning
The document contains summaries of potential horror film ideas and planning for a teen horror film project. It describes settings at a haunted hilltop school where the possessed caretaker kidnaps and steals students' souls. Additional sections provide details on filming a teen horror project in a school setting and include props and clothing needed. A questionnaire found that comedy horror was the most popular horror genre among respondents.
Evaluation question2
The document discusses the main female character Raven in the opening sequence. Compared to typical thriller female characters who are damsels in distress, Raven defies stereotypes by being able to protect herself. While she shows some fear, a conventional female trait, she channels it into strength. Raven is also dressed in atypical "delinquent clothes" rather than the usual white worn by pure female characters. She challenges theories that women only exist for male amusement by not dressing in a sexually appealing way but to portray female strength. Overall Raven subverts expectations of weak, scared females needing rescue by being able to defend herself.
Narrative theory
Vladimir Propp analyzed over 100 Russian fairytales and identified 7 main character types based on their roles and functions. These include the hero, villain, donor, dispatcher, false hero, helper, and princess. Propp's theory is often subverted in horror films where the goal is survival rather than reward, though there is usually a villain who must be defeated. Tzvetan Torodov suggested narratives start with equilibrium, are disrupted, then resolve with the protagonist restoring normality. Claude Levi-Strauss believed binary opposites like good/evil create narrative conflict and resolution. Roland Barthes identified 5 codes - hermeneutic, proairetic, semantic, symbolic, cultural - that allow readers
Drafting Of Ideas
This document outlines three potential story ideas for film trailers. It provides character and setting details for each idea. The first involves friends investigating a supposedly haunted school at night. The second is about bullies who go looking for a girl they tortured in the woods. The third centers around two girls having a forest party that is interrupted by a stalker hunting them. The document writer had others vote on their preferred trailer idea. Trailer 3, about the stalking in the forest, received the most votes so that is the one the writer chose to develop.
Horror Movie Posters Analysis
This document summarizes and analyzes three horror movie posters: Rosemary's Baby (1968), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), and Hostel (2005).
For Rosemary's Baby, the poster sets a chilling tone through its use of a green color and silhouette imagery that hints at something being out of balance with an innocent child as the cause of fright.
For I Know What You Did Last Summer, the poster creates mystery through its use of blues and a faceless threatening figure, suggesting the threat of "backyard horror" in everyday life. It also plays on teen horror movie tropes.
For Hostel, the poster contrasts the warmth of yellow lighting with the weapon-w
Compound sentences
This document discusses compound sentences. A compound sentence contains at least two independent clauses joined together with a coordinating conjunction such as "for", "and", "nor", "but", "or", "yet", or "so". It provides examples of compound sentences that meet the criteria of having two complete sentences joined by a comma and one of the FANBOYS conjunctions. It also discusses combining simple sentences into compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions.
Clover’s final girl theory
Carol Clover developed the "Final Girl" theory to describe the last female character who confronts the killer in horror films, especially slashers. The Final Girl is often a virgin or sexually unavailable, smart, and curious. She survives to tell the story. For example, in Scream, Sidney Prescott fits this role as the intelligent virgin teenager who fights back against the killer across multiple films, growing stronger each time.
Psycological horror presentation
This document analyzes the psychological horror film "You're Next" through discussing its conventions and techniques. It summarizes the plot, examines character types and representations through mise-en-scene elements. It also analyzes themes, settings, and how the film creates fear through plausible events, human villains portrayed in a realistic way, and gory realistic deaths. The purpose is to bring psychological fear and disturb the audience.
Narrative
Todorov's narrative theory states that stories follow a pattern of equilibrium, disruption, then restoration of order. This structure fits the thriller genre, where normal life is disrupted by an event like a killing. The film then shows the protagonist working to resolve the problem until social norms are restored. The document discusses applying this theory to structure a film trailer about a girl who goes from normal to killer. It also references Propp's and Levi-Strauss' theories about character functions and binary opposites to further inform the trailer's development.
The Final Girl Theory by Carol J. Clover
The document discusses Carol J. Clover's "final girl" theory about horror films. The theory proposes that slasher films usually have a sole female survivor who confronts and challenges the killer at the end of the movie. This "final girl" tends to be intelligent, curious, and determined to survive. Examples given include Laurie Strode from Halloween and Sidney Prescott from Scream. The character of Ginny from Friday the 13th Part 2 is analyzed as exemplifying the traits of the resourceful "final girl."
Conventionsin horror
There are conventions that horror directors often follow that have resulted in criticisms of predictability. Settings are commonly suburban neighborhoods which amplify fears of something terrifying happening nearby, or isolated locations that manipulate fears of solitude. Horror movies also use icons like weapons to distinguish villains, religious symbols to represent struggles of good vs evil, and archetypal characters like families and corrupted children to explore themes of vulnerability and lost innocence.
The final girl theory
The document discusses Carol J. Clover's "Final Girl Theory" about horror film tropes. It notes that Clover identified viewers initially share perspectives of both the killer and victims but come to solely identify with the "final girl" - the last surviving female. The main plot of horror films involves a group of victims being hunted one by one by a killer until only one, a final girl, is left to kill the killer or escape. The final girl is often sexually unavailable and pursues the killer actively through curiosity and intelligence, taking on masculine traits like weapons. For a horror film to succeed, it needs the final girl to express abject terror, as viewers would reject this emotion coming from a male character.
Narrative theory in relation to Halloween (chn)
The document discusses several theories about narrative structure and how they apply to the film Halloween. It summarizes that Todorov's theory of equilibrium, disruption, attempted restoration, and new equilibrium is subverted in Halloween as the disruption occurs at the very start. It also analyzes how some but not all of Propp's character archetypes are present in the film. Finally, it examines how Straus' concept of binary opposites between good and evil, day and night are reflected in the film through the hero Laurie and villain Michael Myers.
Horror genre representations
This document discusses representations of different groups in horror films. It notes that males are often portrayed as heroic protagonists but also as villains, while females are usually shown as the "weaker" gender. A common trope is the "final girl" who is the last survivor. Regarding age, children are typically endangered while needing rescue, and older characters tend to be evil antagonists providing wisdom before being killed. Nationality, religion, sexual orientation and ethnicity are also mentioned as representations that can be positive or negative depending on the film's context.
Narrative
This document discusses several narrative theories and how they apply to teen slasher films. It analyzes Todorov's narrative structure of equilibrium, disruption, recognition, and new equilibrium. While most films follow this structure, teen slashers are more irregular in their ordering. It also examines Propp's character types and narrative functions, noting teen slashers don't always have clear heroes and have multiple "princess" characters. Finally, it applies Levi-Strauss' concept of binary oppositions and Barthes' "enigma code" to teen slasher conventions like revealing the killer's identity.
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This document discusses several common character archetypes found in horror movies:
The jock is an athletic, popular character who often acts invincible but tends to die early in the film. The final girl is the sole survivor, who is strong-willed and influential. The popular girl is confident and the center of male attention, often friends with the final girl. The wanderer explores surroundings inquisitively but needs supervision, making them likely to die first. The geek provides reason but may help defeat the villain. The pervert negatively pursues girls and is targeted by the villain. These stock characters are crucial to horror films by making the audience able to identify with people in the movie.
Horror genre poster
The first display of supernatural horror films occurred in the late 1890s in silent shorts by George Melies, notably "La Manoir du diable", considered one of the first horror films. In the early 20th century, Universal Studios produced successful Gothic horror films like "Frankenstein", "The Mummy", and "Dracula" that were designed to thrill and frighten audiences. The 1960s featured some of the best-known horror movies that pushed boundaries with more controversial levels of violence and sexuality during the social revolution. British director Alfred Hitchcock created the first "slasher" film with "Psycho" in 1960.
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The document defines horror films as aiming to create tension, fear, and alarm by using audiences' darkest fears in an unsettling way. It provides the example of Nightmare on Elm Street, which terrifies viewers by having murders occur in dreams rather than reality, leaving no escape. Horror films traditionally use graphic violence and gore as well as dark settings to distress audiences. Common stereotypes include "bad boys" who overconfidently pursue the killer and blonde female characters who are less intelligent and often die after wandering off alone.
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The document defines horror films as aiming to create tension, fear, and alarm by using audiences' darkest fears in an unsettling way. It provides the example of Nightmare on Elm Street, which terrifies viewers by having murders occur in dreams rather than reality, leaving no escape. Horror films traditionally use graphic violence and gore as well as dark settings to distress audiences. Common stereotypes include "bad boys" who overconfidently pursue the killer and blonde female characters who are less intelligent and often die after wandering off alone.
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The document discusses common character archetypes found in film noir, horror, and thriller genres. It provides descriptions of several famous villainous characters including Michael Myers from Halloween, Jigsaw from Saw, Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street, Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs, Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Chucky from Child's Play. These characters are often psychopathic killers who terrorize victims using weapons like knives, guns, and chainsaws.
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The document discusses common character archetypes found in film noir, horror, and thriller genres. It provides descriptions of several famous villainous characters including Michael Myers from Halloween, Jigsaw from Saw, Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street, Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs, Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Chucky from Child's Play. These characters are often psychopathic killers who terrorize victims using weapons like knives, guns, and chainsaws.
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The document discusses common stock characters, plots, locations, and props used in horror films. Some key stock characters mentioned include the protagonist, antagonist, final girl, and children who are often used to connect the supernatural to other characters. Common plots involve a family moving to a haunted house/location and the father going insane. Isolated locations like cabins in the woods and haunted houses are frequently used due to their ability to create fear. Weapons are a common prop that illustrate vulnerability and are used by both antagonists and protagonists.
Eng2 assignment 1
This document is a compare and contrast essay analyzing the horror movies A Nightmare on Elm Street and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It summarizes the plots of both films. A Nightmare on Elm Street features the character Freddy Krueger who kills teenagers in their dreams. Texas Chainsaw Massacre involves the serial killer Leatherface who skins his victims alive. While the movies have similarities like events and characters, they differ in their settings and how the killers torture and kill their victims. In conclusion, these differences keep audiences engaged in the horror genre.
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The document provides a film analysis of the 2003 horror movie Wrong Turn. It discusses several key narrative theories and how they apply to the plot and characters of the film. The movie follows a group of teenagers who become stranded in the woods and must fight for survival against a family of inbred cannibals. The analysis examines how the film establishes an initial equilibrium, introduces disruptive events, and establishes a new resolution at the end as described by Tzvetan Todorov's narrative theory. It also discusses how the film employs common binary oppositions of good vs evil characters and demonstrates other typical horror film conventions outlined by theorists like Carol Clover and Vladimir Propp.
introduction to sub genres of horror
This document discusses various horror subgenres and their common conventions. It notes that slasher films typically involve a masked killer murdering a group of teenage transgressors. Supernatural films focus on an evil spirit that cannot be easily controlled or defeated. Possession movies are similar but feature religious symbols and efforts to exorcise the possessing entity. Monster movies are usually set in the past and feature mythical creatures as antagonists that can be defeated. The document also discusses various horror film theories relating to character archetypes and narrative structures.
Question 1
The document summarizes how the filmmaker's horror movie challenges several conventions of the genre. It shows the monster early and during daylight, rather than hiding it in shadows. It uses natural sounds and unsettling music that shifts tones without warning. It features a diverse cast of victims and kills off the main character, unlike typical films where the hero survives. The goal is to create a more unpredictable and terrifying story by subverting expectations set by common horror movie tropes.
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- 2. As you can see by comparing my opening to the opening of a popular horror film. We have both used red writing to show blood, the colour red is frequently used in horror films.
- 3. Being alone is something that commonly everyone is scared of so I have tried to play on that in my opening sequence by making the character by himself. I have chosen to do this because if something bad was to happen to him, there would be no one around to help him. In the film Friday the 13th, the character Alice is on her own when she has to confront the killer.
- 4. The majority of horror/slasher films are mainly based around one main killer. Michael Myers (Halloween), Jason Vorhees (Friday the 13th) and Freddy Krueger (A nightmare on elm street). I have tried to do this is my opening sequence but I have developed the idea by having the main protagonist as the villain. Stereotypically the main character is the victim of the villain.