Wheeler Wiston-Dixon
Women and men in horror films are sites of activity, situations rather than characters. As the level of graphic spcificly continues to rise in the horror film.
William Shakespeare influence:
Bad things happen in bad weather. Incomplete / non-standard families often have bad things happen to them.
Clover:
Killer - Killers either have had an issue with there childhood or are sexually disturbed.
Terrible places - Places which are decaying or haunted mansions.
Weapons - In slasher's no guns are used and female killers choose to castrate victim with a knife.
Victims -The victims used to be beautiful women but now they are young beautiful teenage girls, this is because they are more sexy and attractive.
Final girl -The final girl not sexually attractive but she is intelligent and slightly boyish. The final girl gets spotted at the start of the movie.
From her book 'men, women + chainsaws.'
Terrible places - Places which are decaying or haunted mansions.
Weapons - In slasher's no guns are used and female killers choose to castrate victim with a knife.
Victims -The victims used to be beautiful women but now they are young beautiful teenage girls, this is because they are more sexy and attractive.
Final girl -The final girl not sexually attractive but she is intelligent and slightly boyish. The final girl gets spotted at the start of the movie.
From her book 'men, women + chainsaws.'
Kaminsky
Weapons (e.g knifes) are personal extentions of the arm and are more favourable to horror movie killers as the deaths are more personal and intimate than using a gun.
Wes Craven
Inherit problems from parents and usually there is an absence of parents or authority when you need help. Bad things happen in a safe place (home). Wes craven likes to set his horror's in known 'safe places'.
Rebecca, Maisie, Sam And Kirsty