Research into the Horror genre

All horror films follow at least one of the following conventions of violence, death, monsters, blood/gore and ghosts. But all horror films follow or try to follow the same mentally linked convention to terrifying you or have you on edge (all depends on the person of course). Openings to horrors usually take the same avenue of setting; dark, gloomy, and a secluded areas possibly in a house or woods (as found out in questionnaire findings). In terms of the narrative conventions it is set around a group or in any way a community of people with a antagonist amongst them, not always will they know who the antagonist is and this can create a sense of mystery among the characters in the film and why maybe people are going missing or found dead or what have you. Be that as it may, it could be the same situation of a group of people who where no-one is the antagonist and they all are trying to escape the villain. And there is always a protaganist that stands out from the group and is the one who survives and rescues some other characters. However the group the film is set around may know who the villain is trying to escape him/her.

In horros theres always a chauvinistic character which simply means that they're a bit narrow-minded and opinionated and starts a fight or confrentation with other members of the cast and is usually one of the victims (thats proberly reading too much into it). There are no real protocols among the characters as the film progresses as they all confide in eachother and become friends. These conventions depend on the nature and narritive of the film, there can be films just set around two people and two people only. For example the film Saw 1, basically a majority of the film is based in a single room with two men chained up. Not the setting you would contemplate being in a horror movie.