NW / Genre Analysis

1. The genre we have chosen to do is horror. There are many sub genres that exist within horror we will be closest to a teen horror. Other teen horrors that exist are Scary movie 1, 2 and 3 are very good examples of teen horrors.

2. All of the scary movie films all follow the very obvious very stereotpycal horror filming techniques, they may use this in a comical way but this is very good to look at as all of the techniques are very overt so making it very easy to identify. In scary movie 1 there is a scene that shows very clearly some very iconic themes for horror films, it has a woman trying to escape from a killer but she trips and breaks her leg then tries to crawl away this is very iconic and is shown in many horror films.

3. The usual narrative of a teen horror would be a group of teenagers all together and would slowly be picked off by a killer one at a time till there was only one or two left and these remaining people would either escape and there be no trace of their friends or they would confront the killer or killers and most of the time it ends in a fire which destroys all evidence of the whole event. The opening quite often will start off very upbeat and cheerful like in the film House of Wax where a group of teenagers all decide to go on a road trip and are all very upbeat. However, there is usually one in the group that doesn't want to go but is persuaded by someone that they are sexually attracted to, they are also usually one of the people that survives until the end.

4. The killer in scream is a prime example of a stereotypical killer.

An example of a hero is one of the brothers from supernatural this is a tv series but is based upon a supernatural horror and is still an example of a hero.

5. The typical location for most teen horrors are in the suburbs of America and occasionally they will be in a small abandoned town in the middle of nowhere that is not on any map, this add a scence of forboading as it is very rare that a town will be completely abandoned for no reason.

6. The iconography I would expect to see in this genre would be a killer in a mask using a weapon that could cause a lot of pain before it killed you. For example in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre there is the crazed killer wielding a massive chainsaw.

7. The costume used in Texas Chainsaw Massacre are very effective as they are simple clothes that don't cost a huge ammount to make unlike in some movies where the costumes are all very fancy and expensive. The costume used for the killer are just the stereotypical south American farmers wear but they have been torn and covered in blood to create a much more effective and scary costume.