Sub Genre Research
The History of Slasher Films
It could be argued that the idea of slasher films started with Alfred Hitchcocks adaptation of the popular novel Psycho. This started the general interest in slasher films and brought way to the production of great and famous slasher films. Examples of very successful slasher films would be
Psycho (1960) ; Psycho (1960) was one of the first slasher films. It captivated the audience with the unknown killer and made them question who it could be. It is famous for the infamous shower scene and the music that goes with it.
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One feature that could be of use in our OTS is the prospect of an unknown and mysterious killer, similar to Norman Bates of 'Physco' (1960) who make the audience question the identity of the killer and the motives behind the killings.
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One feature that could be of use in our OTS is the prospect of an unknown and mysterious killer, similar to Norman Bates of 'Physco' (1960) who make the audience question the identity of the killer and the motives behind the killings.
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Nightmare on Elm street (1980) : Nightmare on Elm street (1980) was a major success. It created 9 films and is famous for its poster figure Freddy Krueger. The franchise was such a success that it made lots of merchandise ironically enough aimed at kids. It made books toys magazines, bubblegum and even a soundtrack.
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A useful element from 'a nightmare on elm street' (1980) that we could incorporate into our OTS sequence is the existence of a character who should effectively be a 'safe' person. Freddy Krueger was a school janitor, some one who would often be linked to a safe place. This meets a horror convention, that safe places are often the most dangerous, and would be useful to incorporate to our killer
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A useful element from 'a nightmare on elm street' (1980) that we could incorporate into our OTS sequence is the existence of a character who should effectively be a 'safe' person. Freddy Krueger was a school janitor, some one who would often be linked to a safe place. This meets a horror convention, that safe places are often the most dangerous, and would be useful to incorporate to our killer
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'Halloween' (1978): 'Halloween' was a a very cheap independent film costing a total of $325,000. It did incredibly well at cinemas getting $47,000,000 at box office. Like 'Nightmare on Elm Street' (1980) it familiarises the audience with the killer, Michael Myers
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We can incorporate similar features from this classic slasher, and make our killer similar to michael myers, masking his face from the audiences view.
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We can incorporate similar features from this classic slasher, and make our killer similar to michael myers, masking his face from the audiences view.
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Michael Myers the killer of Halloween
This is a chart on the interest for slasher films using google trends. As you can see from this data people have search more often for a slasher film in the year of 2013 then they have done in the year of 2007. This is why we have chosen to create a slasher as it appears that this year is the best time to create one as people are now more interested
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The History of Paranormal Films
It could be argued that paranormal films really started with The Blair Witch Project. It was a major success but nothing really followed it until the arrival of the Paranormal Activity films. More examples of successful paranormal films are:
''The Blair witch project' (1999): Like 'Halloween' this film made a major profit costing between $500,000 and $750,000 to make $248,639,099 at box office. It is thought to be the film to revive paranormal films and was successful with viewers being on edge constantly throughout the whole film.
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'Paranormal activity' (2007): This film was extremely successful as it cost $15,000 to make an gathered $193,355,800.making a huge profit of $193,340,800. Part of the reason it was successful was because of the 'Found footage' style of filming, which made the audience see the film through various video cameras, and made the film more believable and realistic. Therefore the film was scarier and more attractive to the audience.
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'Sinister' (2012) : Sinister was a very suspenseful film. It met key horror conventions, had multiple killings. However in this film the killer was revealed to be a supernatural creature, rather that a human mass murderer. Making the killer supernatural gave the film-makers the opportunity to provide the killer with supernatural powers, allowing for jump scares and creepy, haunting sequences.
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One aspect we could use for our horror is making the killer supernatural. This would allow our character to appear in random places, like the killer from 'Sinister' (2012)
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One aspect we could use for our horror is making the killer supernatural. This would allow our character to appear in random places, like the killer from 'Sinister' (2012)
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This is a chart on the interest in paranormal films. This chart clearly shows that the interest in paranormal films as dropped since its peak at 2009. This would influence our OTS as we would focus more on themes of a slasher film than that of paranormal as people want to see slasher's more.
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