Normally in horror films roughly in the twenty first century the protagonist who is originally naive, vulnerable, attractive and usually young. This doesnt always apply for all horror films. Normally the female will be terrified of the situation around her. However the character has to deal with the situation around her so the female will become brave and plans on doing anything to live so this includes forgetting original morals for example never to kill anyone as she was once a innocent sweet person. This doesn't always apply to horror films sometimes the protagonist is a male which can be slightly different to haing a male character because from the start they are normally brave an willing to take the challange to save his life. Sometimes if its a group of people the male would be the leader the one who helps the other survivors.
Occasionally in horror films to make their film slightly different the evil killer can be a child to put a slight twist on the story, as children are normally classed as innocent, sweet people who wouldn't think of doing such a bad crime. However if you make the child the killer the audience would be shocked to who the killer was all along. An example of this would be;
The orphan: A innocent family want to adopt a girl t add to the family. She is young, innocent and seems sweet, she likes to do things like paint which makes the audience think shes just doing what kids do. However she is found to be causing lots of problems with the family nearly killing all the family members apart from the father, firstly you'd just think shes jealous of the brother and sister because she doesn't get the same sort of attention as she is different and gets bullied at school. But the audience are soon to find out she is actually a 40 year old woman who is a killer this is a big shock to the audience because you wouldn't have expected that from the sweet, innocent girl from the start.
There are also your super natural films, which despite the sex of the protagonist nobody will believe them this therefore creates them to feel isolated which causes tension. An example of this would be;
Nightmare On Elm St: The protagonist is a happy young girl who doesn't believe in anything like supernatural horrors of Freddy Kruger untill the young girl had witnessed herself with him in her dream. No one believes her at first because of her age and the fact she didn't believe it to start with herself no one is convinced and thinks shes making up or has a good imagination. She finally stops trying to convnce people and tries to stop him by herself. This shows she is brave and gives her a change of attitude towards the situation.
With the villain its a different story, the character will always remain ominous and mysterious you hardly know anything about the or see them much, this causes more tension because you don't know who the character is, why they are doing so, are they taking revenage? Also you never really see their faces this shows more mysterious within the character. If nothing is really known about the character the villian is more likely to pop up when you least expect it, making the audience tense. A typical horror film would only show the villian when its dark making everything ten times worse as you cannot see much and whats going on, unless its a supernatural film there are more willing to show their identity.
An example of this would be:
Paranormal activity- You don't ever see who the villian is because it is invisable and the protagonists can't see it they just sence is presence. It also only comes out at night so the protagonist woman who is getting stalked by the villian has to put the video camera on video at night and set traps like flour on the floor to see if you see the foot prints, just to see where it is. However at the end the killer gets inside the woman therefore she kills her husband and she is the new villian.
Saw 1- The killer controlls a puppet so you never see who the killer is. This gets the audience wondering about the type of person the killer is. All you know about this person is he supposed motive to be helping people.
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