1. History of horror

2. Conventions of horror
Setting:
Themes of Horror:
• Isolated communities
• Vampires
• Cities • Zombies
• Ghosts
• Towns with “dark and/or no history” • Often Influenced by social,
political and/or
Locations: technological development.
• Death
• Country side • Gothic
• School • Satanism
• Hotels
• Graveyards
• Underground Sewers
• Castle
• Abandoned houses
• School
• Open/underwater

3. Camera angles – Best suited for a horror.
Point of view : Giving the audience, a view
Extreme close up: Showing
through the protagonist or antagonist, gives
bodily parts such as the “Eye”
that mystery to the character usually
is often used as if they are
described as “John Doe”.
showing the shock/realization
in the characters eye adding a
Handheld: Often used to give that “shaky”
weary atmosphere.
feeling and a “Series of blurs” can leave the
audience agitated has they cannot see what
Dutch/Canted angle: Often put
is fully going on adding to a “tense”
in an odd angle, giving it a
atmosphere.
psychological and/or tension in
the frame.
High/Low angles
Normally used to show vulnerability
towards the “Victim(s)” and/or dominant of
the antagonist to the audience.

4. Characters
In horror, it’s often that the • Vampires
protagonist is the “Victim” • Cannibals
as well as the “hero”. • Zombies
• Serial killers
The antagonist will often • Children
portray the “Enemy” and • Spirits
“Villain” of the film. • Psychopaths
• Stalkers
Horrors such as “The • Ghosts
shining” or the “Orphan” • demons
contain “Innocent” • Vicious animals
children.
It often contains
supernatural character
such as Vampires in
“Horror of Dracula”.

5. Props of horror
• Baby doll
• Corpses bleeding
• Coffin
• Masks
• Heads
• Tombstones
• Eyes
• Clothing: Bloodstained
• Organs: Brains
• Animals: Bats
• Bloody Rose
• Spider
• Weapons: Knifes, guns, chainsaws

6. Story types of horror
• Slasher
• Science fiction
• Supernatural
• Teen terror
• Serial killers
• Satanic
• Monsters
• Sub-Genre
• Body Horror: “The thing”
• Comedy Horror: “Scary Movie”
• Gothic horror: “Dracula”
• Natural horror: “Jaws”
• Psychological horror “Gothika”
• Science fiction horror “Predator”
• Splatter film “Wolf creek”
• Zombie films “Dawn of the dead”

7. Georges Méliès & George Albert Smith
Georges Méliès was the George Albert Smith was an
first man to build a film inventor and the first person
studio. He was a French to successfully release a
illusionist and become colour film “Kinemacolour”
famous in discovering the
“Stop trick”, and one of
the few filmmakers to use
“Dissolves”, “Multiples
Exposures” Etc.

8. Sound in horror films
Horror films tend to have:
Slow ominous music
High pitched mainly used for incidental
sound.
Sound commonly used are
Violins/Pianos/Bass/Choir
•Sound used within supernatural horrors
tend to base around:
•Fast pace music for tense scenes or action
scenes
•Common use of choir singing
•Common use of a beat in the time of a
drum/heart
•Piano/organ music

9. Horrors ways of affecting the
audience
Copycat theory Horrors create fears
Horrors have been said to influence some Depending on the audience
people to imitate the brutal methods of the watching ,horrors can create
killers portrayed on screen . People who different types of fear:
watched horror may copy what the •Vulnerability
character’s movement in the real life. •Terror of the unknown
•Nightmares
To protect children who is underage, •Alienation
parents should be the gate keeping along •revulsions
with BBFC who put the age restrictions on
the horror film such as (PG and 18) which
help parents know weather the film is suit
their children or not.