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Research into Horror Movies
Eleanore Ramsey
Key Components of a Horror Film
• Stock characters• Stock plots, situations, issues and themes• Stock locations and backdrops• Stock props
Stock Characters
Innocent child/victim, mysterious character, zombie, masked villain, priest, happy family, loving couples, male villain, ghosts/spirits, non-believer, carefree teens, hero, hysterical female, un-dead, mutated, monsters, last girl standing, cannibal, robots, aliens, weird doctor, dolls, possessed children, vampires, revenge character, old/young couple
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
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
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
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