Horror Film Case Study

Horror Film Conventions:

• Dark Abandoned Locations
• Monsters and Zombies
• Death, Diseases, Destiny
• Supernatural
• Psychos, baddies with masks
• Victims
• Gore and violence
• Possession by the evil

An American Werewolf in London (1981) directed by John Landis
Opening credits
Deserted landscape until a car drives down the road. You meet the two main characters, they are young American men. They walk the rest of the way and enter 'The Slaughtered Lamb' pub where it then goes quiet. The villagers at the pub warn the two men to 'stay on the path' and 'beware the moon'. The dialogue here adds to the horror genre of the film. The Americans ignore their warnings and walk through fields instead, the notice its a a full moon and it starts raining.