WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I’ve used the term ‘lost trope’ because, for all intents and purposes, it is rare to find a film nowadays where the non-white character is killed off first. Obviously you have the outliers like Scream 2 (and a couple of recent films mentioned below) but I think in a …
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A Trope By Any Other Name
Live or Die: You Decide
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers This is another one of my ‘Tackling the Trope’ articles, I just felt that adding that into the title would have made it a little too long. So, everyone has their own opinion on whether they prefer the protagonists to survive the film or whether they are happy for …
Tackling the Trope: Death by Sex
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I’m sure you’ve all heard Randy’s rules for surviving a horror film in Scream right? Well, I wanted to look at one of them a little more in depth – specifically rule one: Never have sex. BIG NO NO! BIG NO NO! Sex equals death, okay? (Couldn’t resist the …
Tackling the Trope: Final Boy vs Final Girl
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Final girl/boy (definition)the last character, be it male or female, left alive to confront the killer, usually the one left to tell the story. This is a theme of horror and slasher films I have covered previously in my review of Evil Dead in reference to Ash. It is …