3. Iconography The full moon on a mist night, this has been a horror icon since Dracula novels. Another icon is when she hears a noise and opens a curtain, which slightly resembles ‘Psycho’, but there is nothing there. While a shadow of a axe raises above her head. The elderly man who says “you’re doomed, you’re all doomed” to a group of teenagers. Which is now cliché in horror films. The idea that if you have sex you will die, this is also in most horror films.