Horror/Thriller

These are the common associates of a horror/thriller genre of films:
Narratives

• Cannibalism
• Phsycos/Phsyciatric wards
• Trauma - maybe in childhoods
• Disease
• Zombies
• Vampires
• Supernatural
• Teenagers in Abandoned houses/warehouses, or being left alone at night
• Getting lost - either abroad or in a forest

Settings

• Adandoned ware/house
• Isolated places
• Foreign countries
• Forests
• Suburbs (everyday homes)
• Schools
• Phsyciatric Wards
• Museums
• Cities

Stock Characters

• Hero/Heroine - figures everything out, most of the time he lives
• The Prize - often the Hero/Heroines boy/girlfriend, gets captured then saved
• The Villian - can be more than one (e.g. a bunch of zombies0, often had a traumatic childhood (reason for killing)
• The False Hero - can be the Prize's partner but lets them down when in trouble (so Hero/Heroine can take over
• Helper - best friend to Hero/Heroine

Iconography

• Blood - red
• Black - connotes evil/darkness
• Teeth (often in vampire films)
• Cross (as above)
• Isolation (places that look abandoned or lonely)
• Forests (can hide from the people who could save them)
• Dark Skies - shows somethings bad going to happen
• Weapon (either sword, gun or axe, whatever to help Hero/Heroine
• Graveyard - land of the dead
• Smog - misty/foggy smoke because it distracts the Hero/Heroine
• Eerie music - makes it sinister

Audience

• Young Adults (16-28)
• Enjoy the suspense and gore
• Any job - generally watched at night
• Not necessarily religious - may not agre with the language or motive
• Not sqirmish people - cant watch the murders

Films

• 30 Days of Night
• Gothika
• The Grudge
• The Ring
• The Hills Have Eyes
• Wrong Turn
• the Saw films
• The Strangers
• Dracula
• Frankinstein
• Final Destination's
• Hollow Man
• Sleepy Hollow
• Scream
• Chuckie
• The Shining
• Jeepers Creepers
• May
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc...

Box Office income = not sure

Editing Techniques

• Non-diagetic sound- to enhance smurder noises, eerie music, footsteps, wind etc...
• Colour - sometimes colour is black and white with hints of red to emphasise
• Fades - text at the beginning fade in and out slowly to make it creepy
• Text - iconography for horrors
• Camera Angles - to add to the effect of somebody watching (hidden in shadows e.g.)
• Continuity Editing - so they cna do a chase sequence