The document analyzes the typical and atypical elements of the horror movie "Insidious 2" across several categories: - The plot is typically about generic problems and children but atypically intertwined with the first sequel and featured a possessed father. - Characters are typically children and useless parents but atypically one character was both a man and woman. - Props, costumes, settings, and sounds/music typically featured haunted Victorian elements but the further was an atypical setting. - Representations of villains, fears, and gender were typically about screeching ghosts with bad pasts, dark fears, and a protective mother but atypically the father was meant to be the

1. Insidious 2
Rohima Begum, Aima Begum and Thahmina Akthar

2. Narrative
TYPICAL:
§ The problems are generic.
§ Children are involved.
NOT TYPICAL:
§ The way it intertwined with the first
sequel.
§ The dad being possessed.
§ Weird storyline.

3. CHARACTERS
TYPICAL:
§ Children
§ Useless parent
NOT TYPICAL:
§ Being both a man & woman.

4. PROPS AND COSTUMES
TYPICAL:
§ Piano’s
§ Dolls
§ Victorian era clothes
§ Haunted objects
NOT TYPICAL:

5. GORE
TYPICAL:
§ Dead bodies
NOT TYPICAL:
§ Deteriorating body.

6. SETTINGS
TYPICAL:
§ A big house
§ An abandoned hospital
§ Haunted house
NOT TYPICAL:
§ The further

7. SOUND & MUSIC
TYPICAL:
§ Sharp bangs
§ Sinister piano
§ Baby monitor
§ Bell chimes
NOT TYPICAL:

8. REPRESENTATIONS OF VILLIANS, FEARS AND
GENDER
TYPICAL:
§ The ghostly screeching women
§ Villain had a bad past
§ Fear of darkness
§ The mother is always protective of children and
doesn’t tell her sons what is going on until the
end.
NOT TYPICAL:
§ The father was supposed to be the hero yet he
was the one in trouble.
§ The idea of the ‘Black Bride’
§ More than one character being the hero.