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A2 Media Studies Horror Genre

Halloween

questions on the film and on the Halloween chapter in Horror Films, by James Marriott (Virgin, 2005).
Some of these questions can be answered from the extract, and some will need you to think about the horror genre chart we constructed.

1. How does the start exemplify a common technical code convention of the horror genre? 2. How does the setting fit with the horror genre? 3. What iconography of innocence do we hear or see early on? 4. What was the main industry impact of Halloween? 5. Name some slasher films which followed on from Halloween. 6. What are the four plot rules of the slasher film sub-genre which Halloween began? 7. Give three ways in which Laurie is androgynous. 8. What does the extract mean by a reactionary sexual agenda? 9. How does the director, John Carpenter, counter the suggestion that Halloween had a reactionary sexual agenda?

10.Why does Mike Myers kill his sister?

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