Horror conventions:
Setting: Isolated places, places with a history, homes
(cellars and attics), night time, medical institutions, dreams, the east.
Technical codes: Expressive, canted angles, ECU's on victim,
POV, depth of frame, unsettling jumps, sudden increases in editing pace, sound
very important.
Iconography: Black and red, dim lighting, unnatural light,
mise-en-scene involves weapons, childhood.
Narrative structure: Todorov, complicated victim/hero, formulaic
narratives, Propp, Barthes and Levi Strauss.
Characters: Main girl, androgynous, virginal, monster with
hidden secret/past, moronic teenagers, children, useless law enforcers, the
‘have a go’ hero, mad scientists, people who refuse to believe.
Themes: Binary opposites, repressed thoughts, hidden evil,
science out of control, what happens when you die, ideologies.
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