Slasher genre overview, notes

Slasher genre overview, notes

Millie, Kate and Poppy's vodcast:
early influential examples which become stereotypes are called archetypes, this is shown in psyco, the archetype of a scream and editing of the killings. 

The Texas chainsaw massacre and last house on the left changed the way the horror worked they made them very realistic with very little money, made it gory. they both started with dis-equilibrium. 

Black Christmas very influential on screen. They shrunk the location variety making it a much lower budget, BC, TCM and psyco, all been remade.

Halloween was influenced by black Christmas  using a POV shot when the killing happens so you're in the eyes of the killer. peeping tom uses the same thing again, making the audience the killers.

big studios never payed attention to slashers however after Halloween, the big studios started to make slashers.

Halloween, the final girl is brunette, academic, smart clothes, personality and a few more  this is stereotypical of the final girl.

long notes sub-consciously make you hold your breath, messing with your heart beat, then the fast notes make your heart beat faster

Tilly, Hannah and James

prototype slashers feature serial killers, narrative appeal comes from who done it.

a trope is something widely recognised.

Drugs nudity and gore attract people to the genre.

TCM marketing idea was that it based on true events.

Hybrid genres are genres mixed together several different genres in one. zom-rom-com

Scary move is an example of post-modernism

self referential is a film about a film.

Dec, Dom, Ben.
Commutation test is used by taking out one thing out of a scene, e.g the music out of the psyco shower scene and it just wouldn't work. In the psycho shower scene was fundamental  it influenced so many other films with the high pitch music. primary audience is 15-24 for slasher movies. however it is what rating the bbfc give your film.
25-34 is referred to as mature youth. your core audience is 16-34. secondary audience is if people who are 35+ people are watching it and people younger than the age restrictions. the characters and language is appropriate for a teen audience. Halloween became the most profitable movie made of all time.an exception to Todorov's theory of a start of just equilibrium the into dis-equilibrium. this film starts with dis-equilibrium.

other points:
in the 50's and 60's most films were either Gothic or creature features mainly made by universal(like godzilla, king kong). most characters were mature upper class adults. then slasher changed the genre because the people were mostly either middle class or working class. used castles alot in the older movies. hammer were very stagey with there look. Slashers then started to come in, in the seventies, Halloween then started a whole new genre because it sparked an array of influenced movies. psyco and peeping tom didn't influence the genre, like Halloween did. Hammer in the 50's 60's were the biggest company in the world at the time, then afew low budget films ruined its reputation. the idea of scream queens were started and used in a lot of hammer films using the stereotypical blonde busty characters. used a lot in advertising.