What are the common elements of horror movies?

There are many routine movies, and some of them are specially anti-routine movies to ridicule the laziness of screenwriters. For example, spoof the short film "I won't", pull out the routine of horror movies and spoof it again. Cabin in the Woods is a master of horror movies. It tells an anti-routine story with a routine, and finally it can sublimate a theme: to measure the value of others with false reasons, and human beings will die sooner or later if they exchange material for morality.

Today, we will take stock of the nine classic routines commonly used in horror movies through the movie "House in the Woods", and introduce a movie under each routine.

First, the virgin terrier-"Survivor Girl"

America is a Christian country. In the central and western regions, many people tend to be conservative. Movies play a certain role in promoting values, so you can see the following plot. In a leading group, the first one to die must be a "bitch", and the last one to save the world must be a silly and sweet virgin. This point is also mentioned in the horror movie The Surviving Girl. The leading group crossed into the world of horror movies in a cinema fire. The only setting is that they will die as soon as they clap their hands, and only the last Virgin can save the world. They used the routine of horror movies to make strippers strip to attract villains, and then let virgins kill the demon king, which really maximized the role of virgins. This is a comedy movie. After the hero and heroine killed the villain, they looked at the subtitles rising at the end of the film hand in hand and couldn't help but start kissing. Later, the film became R-rated. ...

Second, the cabin holiday stalk in the forest-the evil dead

"Evil Death" tells the story of a group of young people who went to a cabin deep in the forest for a holiday, and found a book of death and a tape recorder in the cabin. In the spirit of conscious death, the leading group recited a spell and summoned the ancient demon zombies. Cabin in the Woods pays tribute to this story. A group of young people came to the cabin for a holiday, met a demon/zombie/pervert killer, and became the object of imitation by later generations, such as Shuang Bao Fighting Demons, texas chainsaw massacre, Texas and Texas.

Third, the great adventure of death-Dark Invasion

This is purely a mode in which the protagonists go looking for trouble and force the plot to unfold. For example, we can meet to ask the spirits in an abandoned old house, such as "1408 phantom space" in the hotel terror room, such as "Kunchiyan" in an abandoned mental hospital. However, in the field of making trouble and seeking death, personally, the best movie should be Dark Invasion. In horror movies, I like to set the protagonist as a girl. Compared with men with higher force value, girls are more attractive as protagonists. This dark invasion was all directed by women, and several women went to explore caves but met monsters that ate people. This monster has no vision, but has developed hearing. This kind of villain is not particularly rebellious, but he can give people a chance to escape.

Fourth, play games to summon demons/ghosts-"death divination"

The fourth point is purely a way to go dark and not believe in evil, and challenge the metaphysics of ghosts and gods with your own scientific knowledge. This kind of plot often appears in Japanese movies. Several students didn't believe in urban legends and challenged to listen to the video of death, so the story blueprint of the famous horror movie "Midnight Ring" appeared. There is also this kind of Xiong Haizi in the United States. Their divination is equivalent to the routine of asking ghosts and gods in Asia. Ask a few questions and then the ghosts will answer them.

Verb (short for verb) Break up-Haunted House

It is obviously safer for several people to take turns to keep vigil together, but the leading group must act separately and let the villains break down one by one. There is an irony about this mentally retarded plot in the movie "The House in the Woods". The leading group was supposed to get together, but the villain released some mysterious gas at this time, and the leading group caught in the gas suddenly changed its mind and split up. The movie "Haunted House" is a mindless routine of scattering plasma, but he really developed the routine of "split up". Two people died at the hands of various mental ghosts, which was simply a rush to send their heads.

Six, cheating will kill you-the museum of terror wax.

Horror movies are generally made at low cost. In order to attract the audience to buy tickets, some scenes of bathing or cheating are often added, and the dew point of "taking it for granted" is added to increase the stunt of the film. Slowly, establishing a dissolute beauty has become the standard of every horror film. In order to balance the sense of morality, there is a corresponding "virgin terrier". In "The Wax Museum of Terror", there is also a couple who are responsible for "selling meat" and died at the hands of a psychopath.

Seven, haunted house-"the morgue is haunted"

Because of the cheapness or various reasons, the family moved into the haunted house where the deceased once lived. This setting is very common in James Wan's films, such as the famous "Hidden" series. This "haunted morgue" is to carry forward this setting. It's not just that someone has died before, it's just that the location is set in the front morgue. As soon as the protagonists moved in, they encountered all kinds of strange events, and saw someone perform cruel surgery and cut off the eyelids of the deceased for some kind of sacrifice. Finally, the protagonist discovers that this house is not just a morgue, but the walls of this house are made of corpses! Finally, the protagonist won the duel with the ghost and recovered from the disease. I was completely at a loss when the subtitle display was based on real events.

Eight, the survivors are possessed-"Killing Comics"

If the leading group wins in the end and only one person survives, there is a high probability that he will be possessed. This bridge has been tried and tested time and again, because it can be justified to make a second sequel. The most famous is the Korean horror film "Killing Comics". The heroine is a cartoonist. She often can't distinguish between dreams and reality. One day, a murder happened. The dead man died in exactly the same way as in her cartoon. After an in-depth investigation of the incident, she herself merged with the ghost.