Codes and Conventions of the genre

This slide is a summary of codes and conventions of a horror film.

From doing this summary of the horror genre codes and conventions I have learnt that there are many sub genres of horror.  You cannot call a film a horror now without another word in front of it to describe the film, such as slasher, splatter, psychological, monster (frankenstein, werewolves, vampires, zombies etc.) I have also learnt about what must be included in the genre such as, a slasher horror would have alot of blood and a non mechanical weapon such as blades, axes and swords etc. Where as in a psychological horror there would be alot of shadows, unexplainable doors shutting etc.