5. Stock plots, issues, themes and
situation
Evil creature kills many people, warnings ignored – unfortunate
consequences, seeing things no one else can, serial killer
stalks/slays victim, imaginary friend, death of innocent children,
child abused, mentally insane, good vs. evil, revenge, religion,
depression, science gone bad, lust, envy, suicide, zombie
apocalypse, nightmares, supernatural, romances, person being
hacked up, stalking women with cruel intentions
6.
7. Stock locations and backdrops
Holiday homes in wilderness, diners, woods, top of a hill,
isolated house, lake-camping, dark alleyways, homes of the
characters, empty warehouses, foreign place to character,
mental asylum, churches and graveyards, rural and out of town,
hospitals, gas/petrol stations, cabins, farms, barns, highways,
cornfield, abandoned houses, run down ghost towns, trains and
tunnels, hotels and motels, London underground, basement and
attics, mud, fog, storms, rain, night, moonlight, lightening, blood
Sci-fi horror: spaceships, space, planets
8.
9. Stock props
Candles, voodoo dolls, skeletons, corpses, murder weapons: axe,
pick, knife, body parts, spiders/cobwebs, Ouija board, radio
(white noise), non-starting car, mirror reflection, medicine,
electric chair, light switch, door handle, telephone, guillotine,
woodchuck, foggy car windows, mask, gravestones, hatchets
