1. Character Types in
Horror Films

2. The awakening
Florence Cathcart plays the Hero
type character as she visits
the school to prove that there
are not any ghosts. This
character doesn’t fit the
theorists as it goes against all
the stock and stereotypical
characters; this is because she
seems to be the hero but
ends up having to be saved by
someone else.

3. Robert Mallory plays the
sidekick throughout the
beginning as he is helping
Florence to prove that
there aren’t any
ghosts, but during the end
of the film he turns out to
be more of a heroic
character as he saves
Florence’s life. This also
goes against most
theorists as the sidekick
rarely turns out to be the
hero.

4. Maud hill plays the school nurse
who is more of ‘A bit player’
which links in with Erving
Goffman’s theory of characters
as he says that ‘a bit player’ is a
minor character whose specific
background the audience is not
aware of. At the beginning
Maud Hill’s character seems
like a ‘bit player’ but by the
end of the film she becomes
more of the hero as she helps
the main character realise
what’s happened throughout
her life.

5. Isaac Hempstead Wright plays
the ghost in the film and is
seen to be more of a villain
at the beginning of the film.
This links and agrees with
Propps theory of characters
as he suggested that the
stock characters in films
were heroes and villains. But
during the end of the
film, he is showed to be a
character that the audience
is supposed to sympathise as
you find out about his past.

6. Insidious
The main character is _
he plays a heroic
character as he saves
his son who is
possessed. The heroic
type character also
links in with Propps
idea of stock
characters e.g.
Hero, villain, sidekick.

7. Rosie Byrne plays the part
of the mother, although
she is in the film most of
the time, she doesn't
have a character which
links in with the
theorists. She slightly
links in with the sidekick
but doesn't assist‘ her
husband’ that much.

8. Ty Simpkins plays the
possessed boy, therefore
plays the victim and the
villain. This is because as
well as being the main
horror character, he is
also someone to
sympathise as his body
has been taken over. The
idea of him being a villain
links with Propps theory
of stock characters.