*Blood
*Graveyards
* Last Woman Standing (when the female character is left to the end of the film, still living)
*Male Killer
To see more horror conventions please do look at this post that is based on it: http://www.http://lewisnaomiasmedia.blogspot.com/2011/02/so-what-scares-you.html/
However there are many more horror convetions but the select ones here and on the other posts were the ones that were suggested by my class mates as to what scares them and what makes a horror movie scary for them.
Horror films that I studied for ideas for our film:
Psycho- Psycho is a 1960 Horror | Mystery | Thriller which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock (who made many other great films, including horrors such as The Birds) Now I absolutely love this film because it has a lot of typical horror conventions however, even though it is considered a horror, it is more pyschological than anything else, which is why it was a good film to study in terms of our film, if was made in full, would have a lot of the similar elements of Psycho, as in Psycho, you can see what is going through the woman's mind and that she is getting more and more paranoid about the fact that she may be caught for stealing some money. But also, the villain is also classed as 'crazy' because at first you think he is perfectly nice but throughout the film you think that made he has a mother-complex, and that infact he would classed as a 'mummy's boy', you then start to see that the famous scene of Psycho in the shower when she gets murdered, you instantly realised that it is infact the mother who murdered her! (the scene in the shower, the blood was actually chocolate sauce but with it being a black and white film, it works perfectly. At the end, you find out suddenly that the mother has been dead and that the boy had murdered her and now was dressing up and playing her role to cope with his guilt, so in the end it was quite a twist!! That is why I really enjoyed Psycho.
Trailer:
This was the original teaser trailer for Psycho, and it was set out a little differently to how modern trailers are now made (in this, hitchcock explains what happens in the film)
The Orphanage- The Orphanage is Drama | Mystery | Thriller genre, even though isn't typical classed as 'horror' it should be, but it really great research for my film, this is because it has a lot of pyschological elements, as it is about a woman whose son has disapeared and she starts looking for him, and is convinced that a boy in a potato sack mask or a 'spirit' has taken him and she starts to work out that he used to live in the house that they are now living in, however, the mother's husband starts to worry about her and thinks that she is starting to go a bit loopy and tries to convince her to leave the house but she does not, in the end, they found out that the boy was in the house all along but had been trapped and not been able to get out so he died, and when the mother discovers this, she then overdoses, the final shot is of the woman and the child happy together with all the other children that were once living there (as it was previously an orphanage-hence the title of the film)and that in the end they will all live together in harmony, happily ever after.
Trailer:
Our film's unique selling point is the fact that it is pyschological so that it will play tricks on the audience's mind and that by doing so it won't be typical horror films, as most horror films are slasher/chase movies or supernatural things, we have decided to do a bit of mix of both, so it is a person esentially fighting with her mind, however, to fit the supernatural criteria of a horror film we have had it so that the person never dies, but is infact trapped in a mirror, unlike most horrors, most people die, however in a way this would seem more traumatic and not only are they doomed to a life of nothingness but they also get brutally hurt.
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