Pre Production

Tuesday, 24 November 2015

List of horror clichés

List of horror genre clichés

Example - Jason goes to hell

Bad mobile phone reception – To prevent this in my opening scene I will not use calls, if I was to include the use of mobile phone I will make the purpose texting.



Example - Human Centipede

Two vulnerable girls alone in a forest – A forest is a very generic cliché of horror films therefore I will try avoid forests as a whole




Example - The Shining

Unknowing to the victim, the killer is behind them – This is hard not to do as if  the killer is going to attack the victim, the suspense would not be dramatic if the victim was not put in a situation where they are oblivious to the outcome


Example - The hand that rocks the cradle

Survivors who walk over the killers body and get their ankle grabbed - In order to avoid this I am going to include no scenes in which involve the acting of being dead.





Ridiculously evil looking dolls  - My film will not involve any props such as dolls.
Example - Sinister

Found footage/tapes relating to the storyline - This would be too difficult to include into a storyline therefore this will avoided.
Example - Misery


The ‘someone died setup’ – To avoid this, let some of the back plot go unexplained until the end, creating more suspense throughout the film

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