Research into generic codes and conventions

Horrors differ from thrillers by the obvious antagonist. The monster/psychopath is seen by the audience and often the film revolves around it.
The typical codes and conventions about horror films are lots of blood, painful murder weapon, or method. And dramatic score music used to create suspense. Disturbing images and ideas. Ususally a monster or zombie attack or just a psychopath torturing innosent victims. The killer or monster always has a key thing about them, a scar , a weapon
Horrors are films specially designed to exagarate one's deepest fears and twisted fantasies and to scare people as a form of fun. While some horror films are quite fake or funny looking to the audience, others are reviewed as ''disgusting'' and terridying. They are extreme and have taken things way too far, hence forbidden in some countries.

Horror films use themes that are connected to the natural human fears, eg. mummy's, zombie attacks, vampires, monsters of all kinds, aliens, fear of the unknown, satanism, ghost, diseases and so on.

The codes and conventions in horror genre differ on the sub-genre, such as horror - drama e.g. - The Devil's Backbone -

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Which looks like a typical ghost story, but has themes involved such as revenge and friendship, it doesn't focus on the ghost and the ghost doesn't harm the protagonist. The plot focuses on hte relations between the people inside the orphanage.

Horror - comedy is also a popular sub-genre such as Attack the Block

Which concentrates more on British Youth than the aliens attacking the world and has a fine line between the boys's shock of what's going on and their strange way of acceptance and resistence .

Some horror films are based on psychology, as in SAW



The antagonist makes games for his victims and they have to choose weather to do the painful things he asks them for the time he's set them, or to lose a loved one, or just die. Many of his victims though are happy of the exooirience and say that it has changed their lifes for the better. As he is doing this to people who are doing something bad and rotten to others. He is punishing them and changing their life.

Horror films are not only made to scare us, but to also educate us about human fears, how would they effect to certain people. Are we capable to handle being emotionally harassed as children, or will they turn into one of the psychos from those horror films. Such as the Human Centipede.

The antagonist has a sick fantazy, which is inspired by the Human Centipede 1. He's been sexually and emotionally harrassed by his father as a child, which shows that not all horror antagonists are the way they are because they're just sick, something has mad them that way. Be it society or their own family.