Horror Paradigms

Location/Setting

Props

Characters

Victims

Isolated places

Sound/music Sub genre

Countryside Woods

weapon

Usually stabbing weapon never a gun

Knife AxeMachete Chain saw

Weapons that inflict a slow and painful death

Killer (usually a male character)

Killer/monster never dies

Killer

Monster Sci-fi Vampire

Teen slasher

Religious

Villain/Killer

Cave

Isolated Town

Haunted/Abandoned House

Mental patient Monster

Evil twin

Psycho

Outcast

Masked murders

Ghost/Demon

Teenagers

Parents

Children

Uses a lot of non-diegetic sound to set a mood

The slut( promiscuous girl) gets punished for being sexual active

The Virgin survives as long as her virginity

A group of people, the audience can relate to