Horror codes and conventions

Conventions


Location

• isolated 
• confusing 
• claustrophobic 

 Symbols

• Blood
• guts
• knives 
• dangling limbs
• Slime

Tone/Mood

• Darkness
• Diffused light
• Screams
• jiggly camera 
• Angles

Codes  

Plot

• Unknown Evil
• Death
• Survivour

Narrative(4 act structure)

• Ordinary world 
• key plot point 1 
• Netherworld 
• Pinch 
• Kingdom of evil
• Key plot point 2 
• Return to netherworld
• Resolution 

 Themes

• Pure evil is everywhere and can strike at any time
•  Only the most pure and resourceful can survive

Characters

•  Protagonist (Hero) Resilient Resourceful and most pure   
• Evil, A seemingly indestructible, remorseless Killing machine
• The inside man, The one responsible for all the ma ham