Blog 5 - Evidence of Wider Reading

Teen horrors all use the same conventions, they mainly include:
- characters at the same age of the target audience
- relationship between a girlfriend and boyfriend
- some scenes set in a high school or isolated areas
- involve different groups of people e.g. geeky, jocks
- stereotypes

This is a summary of the teen horror genre that i found off a movie review website:
'Horror films where the body count is skewed toward the 15-19 year old range, portrayed by people who haven't been 15 in a loooong time. Sex, drugs, and alcohol also tend to get you killed frequently' - movieretriever.com

Steven Cassey Murray, A horror movie editor from belle online picked out some of the positive points that sorority row had. This included the use of comedy and how it stuck to the main story plot throughout the film. Some of the negative points were that it included negative female stereotypes and that the film was not original.
The same horror movie editor from belle online wrote a review about Jennifers body and picked out positive points. The positve points were that like sorority row included humour and that Jennifers bodys dialougue was something new and original. This horror movie editor ovbiously enjoyed Jennifers body much more than Sorority row as there were no negative points about Jennifers body.
From screenrant.com was a review of Jennifers body which included a negative point of the film and that was that it was not really that scary.

When creating my script i will try to include the positve points that the two films included so i will have to have a original story line, create the sense of fear (to make it scary) and to include some humour.