Horror convention

One example of a horror convention seen on the cover of the DVD would be the use of the dark figure in the background. This represents the supernatural, as the figure is wearing all black, its face is covered, and it’s standing upright, which may come across as quite intimidating and creepy to the audience, which we can relate to Bulmer and Katz theory of visual pleasures for the audience, which involves scary or dark figures and physical effects that can scare the audience and pleasure them visually

Since it’s infancy at the beginning of the eighteenth century, horror has followed certain conventions that results in an awakening of the senses, evoking intense emotions of fear and terror in the audience. Horror feeds off triggering the primal fears embedded within all of humankind, creating a sense of menace that is the very substance of this genre. Furthermore, the central menace of a piece tends to enlighten the human mind to the world of the paranormal and the enigmatic, dark side of the unknown

Typically supernatural horrors are set in the home of the protagonist usually their homes as it is closest thing to them. All of the Paranormal activity films are based in the home of the individuals being haunted by the supernatural forces. The invasion of the supernatural forces on the character's home makes the situation even more terrifying as the forces are unwanted and it also makes it harder to escape as it is their home, they cannot exactly uproot their family and move to a different house

Insidious easily fits the film conventions of the horror genre and themes. Insidious incorporates classic horror elements like haunted houses, ghosts, children being possessed, and outside experts of the spiritual world. A family with three children start to witness things out of the ordinary and are unable to understand what they are seeing. The mother, for instance, knew she was seeing strange deities, but her husband refused to believe it and thought she was just out of it. The classic element

The horror film is known to use numerous tropes and conventions throughout its history. Formulas such as monsters and killers lurking in the shadows, legends of homes with morbid and haunted histories, and an abundance of violence all work together in creating the genre that is known as horror. Another aspect that is widely seen in the horror film in particular is extreme violence against female victims. When looking at this superficially, feminism does not appear to be one of the conventions of the

Setting conventions play a huge part within the horror genre. Since horror first existed it has been set in ghostly abandoned castles with spooky dark dungeons, gloomy forests and spine-chilling secret passageways. Since these, settings in the horror genre has evolved into a more terrifying definition of scary. In horror movies today we mainly see old, haunted, broken down houses set in isolated forests exactly like the new house the family moves into in ‘The Conjuring’ or like in the horror movie

How genre conventions are used to raise audience expectations in horror movie trailers. ‘The word genre means ‘type’ or ‘category’’ (Teach yourself film studies) it is really important as an audience member to recognise genres as then things become categorised and easier for them to understand which is more comforting. Sometimes however genres are crossed and categories are broken for example sometimes we have ‘action thrillers’ or ‘sci-fi horrors’ this is known as a hybrid genre. This often intrigues

Perfume, by Suskind conforms to conventional standards of the horror genre. The author takes advantage of this conformity by making Grenouille into the typical horror genre killer or monster to produce a story with a chilling and dark atmosphere. The author effectively uses both characterization and stylistic features to develop and shape Grenouille’s character into such monster. According to horror conventions a story must have a monster, whether it be a serial killer or supernatural entity “There

roller coaster of I Know What You Did Last Summer commences. The film fits into the horror genre with its collection of horror conventions from the damsel in distress scene, blood, mutilated

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