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    Teen horror films typically feature conventions like a "last man standing" character who must defeat the villain, an evil villain who kills victims, scenes set in darkness to make characters vulnerable, and violence inflicted on a group of teen characters by the villain or circumstances. These codes and conventions include having a disturbed killer as the villain, using darkness during action scenes to increase vulnerability, and displaying recurring violence throughout the film targeted at a group of teen protagonists.

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    Teen horror films typically feature conventions like a "last man standing" character who must defeat the villain, an evil villain who kills victims, scenes set in darkness to make characters vulnerable, and violence inflicted on a group of teen characters by the villain or circumstances. These codes and conventions include having a disturbed killer as the villain, using darkness during action scenes to increase vulnerability, and displaying recurring violence throughout the film targeted at a group of teen protagonists.

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    Codes and Conventions of A Teen Horror

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    Teen horror films typically feature conventions like a "last man standing" character who must defeat the villain, an evil villain who kills victims, scenes set in darkness to make characters vulnerable, and violence inflicted on a group of teen characters by the villain or circumstances. These codes and conventions include having a disturbed killer as the villain, using darkness during action scenes to increase vulnerability, and displaying recurring violence throughout the film targeted at a group of teen protagonists.

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    Codes and conventions of a teen horror

    Conventions
    Conventions are the things we expect to see in particular genres.

    Codes
    Codes are systems of signs, which create meaning.

    Last man standing


    Within every teen horror there is a common occurring feature which is to have a Last man standing. An example of this is within Nightmare On Elm Street. The female character shown on the right is left on her own to kill the killer; Freddy Kruger.

    An evil villain
    A main ingredient of a teen horror is to have a villain. These are normally disturbed characters who kill as payback to those within the film.

    Darkness
    Another main feature of a teen horror is to have most of the action scenes within darkness. This adds to the characters vulnerability.

    Violence
    Teen horrors display a recurring theme of violence throughout each film, this may be a killer inflicting violence on one of the main characters or a serious of violent happenings to the main characters inflicted by the mise en scene.

    Group of teens
    In a teen horror the storyline always follows a group of teens

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