The Horror genre typically has:
Primary target audience – male, 16-24, This is because statistically, adolescent males happen to be the mainstreamer psychographic of audience appeal when it comes to the violence and gore explored in generic horror films in comparison to an older audience demographic or woman.
15 or 18 Certification – debates on passive consumption as content in horror film can often have purposely explicit content which arguably is considered too controversial for anyone to watch anyway, whether it be a middle-aged couple watching various horror film in an Alfred Hitchcock movie marathon whom are in the resigned psychographic, or a 17 year old girl watching a horror movie on television in the Group E student/unemployed demographic.
Extensive use of Narrative enigmas - Examples a conventional enigmatic feature in horror film is the antagonist is not viewed largely, and if he/she is, their face is not shown in excess or even at all. Prime examples are the antagonists Leatherface and Jason Voorhees from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the Friday the 13th series.
Slow pace of Editing, builds tension. Long takes - this gradually build the climate of fear or abnormal occurances that may affect the equilibrium of the narrative diegesis.
Split into sub genres (see below), often hybridised into fused genres like the comedy horror genre in The Scary Movie series, which is a parody(imitation of art, literature, film or other media for comical effect) in itself based on the Scream series, which is another parodical horror film uses exploits the generic storylines and archetypal characters in conventional horror films. Another example is psychological horror thrillers like the Hannibal series, or else science-fiction horror like The Thing(1982+2011) or 1998 film The Faculty(analysis viewed below)
I have decided as part of my trailer to explore aspects of crime drama with my horror trailer as I wanted to explore the theme of extreme antisocial behaviour in my trailer, outlining realistic themes that have been explored in previous year in the history of cinematic horror through films such as Carrie(1973+2013), Tormented(2009).
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