3. Paranoia & Madness
• Disturbia
• The silence of the lambs
• The shining
• seven
• Haunter
4. conventions of the horror
subgenre
• The genre often seeks to challenge or confuse the audience's grasp of the
narrative or plot by focusing on characters who are themselves unsure of or
doubting their own perceptions of reality or questioning their own sanity.
Characters' perceptions of their surroundings may be distorted or subject to
delusions, outside manipulation or gaslighting by other characters, and even
hallucinations or mental disorders.
• Psychological horror aims to create discomfort by exposing common
or universal psychological and emotional vulnerabilities/fears and
revealing the darker parts of the human psyche that most people may
repress or deny
• Common settings for this horror subgenre are as follows: big houses,
woodland locations, warehouses, schools and hospitals. These
settings create a sense of realism in relation to the audience as they
would be able to relate to some elements of the film as they might
have seen/been or live in such surroundings. This would increase fear
as they would be able to picture themselves in the position of the
victims. Another common convention is that there tend to be
flashbacks which inform the audience of why the killer has reached
such a state.
• Often the sounds/music used in psychological horror films is
contrapuntal sound (i.e. the sound does not match the action that is
onscreen). This is effective because it is used to contradict what is
taking place on screen. The antagonist of psychological horror often
comes back for revenge and the victims tend to differ, but females
are often the ones that are targeted the most.
5. Plot-BLAME ME
• Non-linear concept.
• Main character starts off in a prison cell writing a letter to family
member.
• Then flash backs happen as the main character is writing letter
• First flashback is to when he was back in school being bullied by a
group of boys.
• second flashback is to when he starts getting death threats and
blackmail messages and starts getting very paranoid
• Third flash back is to when he’s walking back in the evening and
somebody is following him so he beats them up but they weren't
following him.
• Fourth flash back is to when he’s at home at night and at this point
he is very paranoid and has gone into a state of madness.
• Fifth flashback is when he thinks someone is breaking into house,
but its his girlfriend realises what he’s done flash back to him in his
cell saying
6. Narrative enigma’s
• Why is he in prison?
• What was his upbringing like?
• How well was his school life/grades?
• Did he ever do and sort of drugs to influence the
paranoia?
