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Unit 1 Horror Assignment

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Horror assignment Horror can be divided into different categories e.g. we have direct horror, suggested horror, shock, cinematic dread and cinematic terror. In this assignment I will look at an episode where I will ana-lyse it with focus on the horror genre and make a comparison to penny dreadful pilot, an episode we have watched in class. The episode I will analyse is from the series Supernatural. This is an Ameri-can fantasy horror series. The series follows the two brothers Sam and Dean Winchester as they hunt demons, ghosts, monsters and other supernatural beings. All five types of horror are used in the supernatural pilot. The direct horror is used when “the wom-an in white” kills her male victims because they have been their wife/girlfriend …show more content…

This is when the protagonist (Sam and Dean) is active in the action. This makes the audience active as well because we want them to win. Cinematic terror is used a lot in the Supernatural series due to the fact that the series is built up about Sam and Dean hunting and killing the supernatural e.g. (supernatural pilot, from 00:34:08) The scene shows Sam and Dean fighting against the ghost. The ghost attack Sam. Dean shoots on it so it weakens it makes Sam able to finish the job by driving her home to her kids she drowned. This is why she could not go home and this is the reason she disappears at the end. This shows that the main character’s win and it makes the audience satisfied. If the Supernatural pilot should be compared to the Penny dreadful pilot, we will se a lot of differ-ences e.g. language, time period (postmodern vs. Victorian age) and target audience. The language is different in the two series because supernatural is a postmodern series and Penny dreadful have some traditional accepts in the episode. This traditional society is seen in the Penny dreadful pilot because they have a more formal language than the supernatural pilot e.g. (Penny dreadful pilot, 00;08;10) this scene shows a formal conversation between the two main characters (Ethan and Vanessa). This is seen when they use words like Mama, Miss, Gentleman and Sir. The supernatural language is postmodern because the use irony, slang and so on. This makes the language casual as you use it in everyday

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