WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I think I have said this several times before in other articles but one of the key tropes for any horror film is isolation! Like the fear of the unknown, the idea of no escape is terrifying. Probably the most common display of this is with the old cabin …
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A Trope By Any Other Name
Death of the Token Minority
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 …
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 …