What is a horror film...?

Personal

The audience’s own identification with the fears or terrors of the narrative:
• Fear of the other/monster in the darkness
• Fear of the body being ripped/mutilated
• Our own personal boundaries being transgressed
• Emergence of terror at any level being enjoyed from a safe/vicarious distance.

Ideological

• The implicit or explicit messages embedded within the narrative

• Themes of punishment, rejection and/or revulsion at subjects which deviate from ‘correct’ thinking, from simplistic or basic messages (the virgin ‘good’ girl surviving at the expense of her rebellious ‘promiscuous’ friend) to more nuanced or subtle fears of strangers/hitchhikers breaking our boundaries. Or the condemnation of any deviant (i.e non Christian) religion.

• Our perception that the power of science can defeat darkness at the expense of older beliefs in religion and superstition…

• In our modern understanding of fear we rationalise the supernatural and defeat it with psychology.

• Modern media creates ‘demons’ by crusading against section of society and labelling them

Industrial/financial

Perhaps the most lucrative genre in the film industry horror draws in huge audiences justifying the continual re-invention, re-marking and franchising of every succesfull horror product.

This is my idea for my Thriller

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My idea came from some of my own fears, things which when i watch make me feel scared. This is why my idea has a man in a mask. I find that not being able to see who is behind the crime adds a huge sense of mystery through hiding your most identifiable feature.