Clover
Carol J Clover created the theory revolving around 'the Final Girl' in her book 'Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film'. This is later expanded by other films into a group of set roles, although the main drive of the group is the Final Girl. She also had several other theories that play into horror film theory.
The final girl is generally someone who can easily stand by herself and someone the audience can associate with. She is resourceful, considered pure and has masculine traits like a masculine or unisexual name or engaging in masculine activities. An example of this would be Riley from Alien. A subversion is Dana from The Cabin In The Woods. I don't believe this will be played into our trailer because the protagonist is designed as overtly feminine and hit hard by the events leading to the trailer.
Clover believed that all killers in film have either gender/sexual issues or childhood issues, and that females could have gender confusion or other unknown issues. This could link in with our killer, since she died by car crash and could viably have reservations about the circumstances of her death.
Most importantly, the slasher genres is aimed at the male demographics in order to have them rooting for the killer initially then sympathise with the victim. We've chosen to avert this choice of genre to pick up on the female demographic as females aren't as interested in many horrors as others, meaning that there aren't as many films directed to that area of the market. This means we can pick up and control a fairly moderate amount of customers.
The final girl is generally someone who can easily stand by herself and someone the audience can associate with. She is resourceful, considered pure and has masculine traits like a masculine or unisexual name or engaging in masculine activities. An example of this would be Riley from Alien. A subversion is Dana from The Cabin In The Woods. I don't believe this will be played into our trailer because the protagonist is designed as overtly feminine and hit hard by the events leading to the trailer.
Clover believed that all killers in film have either gender/sexual issues or childhood issues, and that females could have gender confusion or other unknown issues. This could link in with our killer, since she died by car crash and could viably have reservations about the circumstances of her death.
Most importantly, the slasher genres is aimed at the male demographics in order to have them rooting for the killer initially then sympathise with the victim. We've chosen to avert this choice of genre to pick up on the female demographic as females aren't as interested in many horrors as others, meaning that there aren't as many films directed to that area of the market. This means we can pick up and control a fairly moderate amount of customers.
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