We've been looking at different genres in film such as horror, romance,action and crime. We will be looking at sci-fi next lesson. It is helpful as each group doing a different genre has an idea of the stereotypical features of that particular genre.
As our film is a horror movie we have been looking at the typical cliches included in the film. Horror movies divideinto several different categories : slasher,zombie,vampire,mainstream horror and Asian horror.
All of the subgenres rely on worthy,battle-tested cliches. Horror is the one genre in which the absence of cliches would ruin everything.
Cliches in a horror film is that the children are often evil and the setting is rural. The resason for this is because rustics are scary in and of themselves, and because there are lots of frightening farm tools on hand, and also because there are no neighbours to beg for help. It is always a bad idea to go to sleep in horror films, or accept a ride from strangers, or respond to a personal ad. It is an even worse idea to get in an elevator , a popular hideout for the promiscuously dead.
Horror movies do not work well in places like Holland, because horror films require basements. Linen closets and tidy storage areas are suprisingly common in Asian horror films, which may have cultural ramifications that go over the heads of moviegoers in the west.
These were some of the cliches we had been looking at.
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