-Locations of gothic horror: old castles, gloomy forests,
dungeons.
-Famous gothic writers refer to: Mary Shelley, Bram stoker
and Edgar allan poe.
-Sound plays an extremely large role in horror.
-Val Lewton, refer to his work. He created scares with mood
and shadow rather than make-up and monsters, good for psychological genre.
-Alfred Hitchcock-Psycho. He created more natural horror,
less monsters, reference.
-Blood being shown on screen comes across as chilling.
-Terror in the backyard or everyday suburbia works, in the
slasher sub-genre.
-Torture porn,
emphasises blood and gore, cycle of saw, the most successful horror franchise.
-Found footage sub-genre, piecing together first hand
footage, to reconstruct last moments of victim
-Zombie apocalypse cycle, feed on fear of a medical
pandemic, and breakdown of society and civilisation.
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