The document discusses key elements of the horror genre. Iconic props like Jason Voorhees' mask and Freddy Krueger's glove are memorable because they instill fear in viewers. Settings typically take place at night or in dark environments like suburbs or remote areas. Main characters fall into categories like the antagonist who kills victims, the protagonist who the story follows, and "red shirts" who are killed to advance the plot. Common themes include gore, serial killings, and protagonists who are helpless against the antagonist. The narrative usually involves trying to catch or escape the killer. Style features conventions like excessive blood and gore, especially in slasher films.

1. Genre analysis
The Horror Genre

2. Iconography
Put simply iconography is a character or prop that is memorable in
film because of the part they/it played in a movie, the most iconic
props in the horror genre would be Jason Voorhees’ mask from
Friday the 13th or Freddy Krueger's claw glove and stripped shirt
from nightmare on elm street, the reason for these objects being so
memorable is because they instill fear in the viewer.

3. Setting
The setting of a horror tends to be similar, generally the setting
would take place at night or in a dark environment the areas can
vary from typical suburban areas (nightmare on elm street) to the
middle of the desert (The hills have eyes) as for the time period for
most movies they usually take place during modern times as to
make the movie relate to the viewer and make them think that
could happen to them.

4. Characters
Conventional characters in horror films mostly fall into similar stereotypes first is the
antagonist who is the threat in the film though this changes depending on the film, a film
like Friday the 13th has Jason Voorhees who kills people with a machete but in a horror
film like Saw the antagonist is a person who kills people with traps the running theme for
a main antagonist is the fact that they scare people with their way of killing, the second
character type is the protagonist or in some cases the victim the story will usually revolve
around them and depending on the film franchise their life can go either way, the final
character archetype are the characters who die in order to progress the story giving them
the nicknames ‘red shirts’ this can be seen in films such as Jaw which or scream in
which a character dies for the sake of the plot this act as a way to draw audiences in and
make them ask questions about what is happening.

5. Themes
There are several different themes which can be seen through
different films the three most common of which appear in horror
films would be gore, serial killings and the protagonists being
unable to do anything throughout the majority of the film, these
themes can be seen in films such as Saw, Halloween and scream;
in these films each antagonist is a serial killer of a sort as they kill
many people, usually in a spectacular fashion accompanied with
lots of blood, and the protagonists are helpless and unable to
retaliate due to fear or them being weak.

6. Narrative
The narrative in most horror films is to either catch the antagonist
and to stop them or to try and escape from them, it mostly depends
on the protagonists convictions in the case of movies like scream
with a serial killer on the loose the protagonists spend the majority
of the film trying to figure out who the killer is, or in the case of
movies like Saw the protagonists must find a way to escape the
antagonists traps, the ending for horror films like these can vary
they can find and stop the antagonist or they can be killed by them
the story can vary depending on the franchise or the type of
character the antagonist is.

7. Style
Style in films are recognizable conventions that appear in film
of the same genre the most common one in slashers would
be the excessive use of blood and gore this convention can
be seen in slasher films such as scream and the Texas
chainsaw massacre in which there is a large amount of blood
and gratuitous violence.