(Group are walking down the road giggling and drinking)
Jack: Come on !!
Phoebe: Where you goin’?
Jack: In the forest
Connor: Jack you can’t go in there
Jack: Why not? It’s only Cofton Forest
Phoebe: Yeah the “haunted” Cofton forest Jack
Jack: It’s not haunted you silly cow!
Connor: Jack! Don’t fucking call her that
Jack: ooooo what you gonna do? Oh come on it’s not haunted, I promise
(Jack walks up to phoebe and gently strokes her face)
Jack: Oh come on hunny, I wouldn’t let anything hurt you
Phoebe: Get off me!
(Jack laughs and runs off into the forest)
Kate: Well come on (she walks towards the forest) we can’t just let him go in there on his own!(Jack runs out of sight of the rest of the group, when they find him, he is standing still looking at something in the distance.)
Kate: What you lookin’ at?
Jack: Oh doesn’t matter. Pass me a can, woman!
(Jack and Connor argue about Jack’s attitude towards women. Whilst Jack and Connor are arguing, Kate spots a strange figure in the distance. She enquires Phoebe and eventually tell the arguing boys.)
Jack Oi!!!
Kate: Shut up, you don’t know who it is
Jack: Probably just some drunk. Oi!!!!!!!!!!!
Connor: for fucks sake just shut up.
(Jack runs towards the strange figure ignoring comments from the rest of the group)
Phoebe: JACK!!!!
Connor: JACK!!!!
(Jack is stabbed, the audience see it from the groups point of view)
Kate & Phoebe: ARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!
After drinking a substantial amount of alcohol, four teenagers decide to go wandering into the forbidden Cofton Forest. The friends know they shouldn’t be there, but when Jack, ‘The lad’ tells them that it’s just a rumour and that the forest isn’t haunted they all decide to continue into the woods. Jack thinks the girls love him and he acts inappropriately towards Phoebe. However, Connor, Jack’s best friend, is in love with Phoebe and tells Jack to back off. Whilst the two boys are arguing, Kate notices a strange outline of a person and alerts her friends. All of them agree that they shouldn’t stay any longer and decide to head back to the road, except for Jack who thinks he can handle the strange man and starts shouting at him to come out. The friends think he’s just being stupid and try to shut him up, with Jack still shouting at the killer for him to come out from wherever he is. Before you know it, Jack runs in the direction of the figure and is ignoring his friends calls. Moments later the group witnesses their friend being stabbed by the unknown person. Screaming, all of them run and try to find the road.
Phoebe, Kate, Connor and Jack are four drunken teenagers wondering in a nearby forest after a night out. Whilst they are in the forest they see an ominous outline in the distance. Jack, the cocky kid, goes to investigate but ends up getting stabbed repeatedly by the Villain, or so the audience is lead to believe. The other three see the “murder” and run for their lives, they eventually get split up trying to find the road. This was a mistake because they now can’t find each other. Once split up, they find themselves having to do whatever they can to stay alive. They find out that the villain is actually the father of Phoebe, and that jack has been working for him and was successful in leading the group into the forest. On discovering the identity of the villains, Kate lashes out at Jack but Phoebes father stabs her before she can touch Jack. They manage to escape the Villains and Connor consoles Phoebe and decides to make his move. However, Phoebe rejects Connor and he finds this hard to deal with and lashes out at Phoebe, and injures her. (Unknown to the group, Connor had a psychiatric problem and had not quite gone past it.) Jack and Phoebes father split up to find the two remaining teenagers. The film ends with Jack being killed and Phoebe stabbing Jack repeatedly. Phoebes father breaks his leg and Phoebe just leaves him on the floor of the forest to die.
Phoebe, Kate, Connor and Jack are four drunken teenagers wondering in a nearby forest after a night out. Whilst they are in the forest they see an ominous outline in the distance. Jack, the cocky kid, goes to investigate but ends up getting stabbed repeatedly by the Villain, or so the audience is lead to believe. The other three see the “murder” and run for their lives, they eventually get split up trying to find the road. This was a mistake because they now can’t find each other. Once split up, they find themselves having to do whatever they can to stay alive. They find out that the villain is actually the father of Phoebe, and that jack has been working for him and was successful in leading the group into the forest. On discovering the identity of the villains, Kate lashes out at Jack but Phoebes father stabs her before she can touch Jack. They manage to escape the Villains and Connor consoles Phoebe and decides to make his move. However, Phoebe rejects Connor and he finds this hard to deal with and lashes out at Phoebe, and injures her. (Unknown to the group, Connor had a psychiatric problem and had not quite gone past it.) Jack and Phoebes father split up to find the two remaining teenagers. The film ends with Jack being killed and Phoebe stabbing Jack repeatedly. Phoebes father breaks his leg and Phoebe just leaves him on the floor of the forest to die.
-Dark/Low Key lighting
-Dark Clothing for the villains.
-Possibly brighter clothing for the heroes.
-Isolated setting – feel as though the victim is trapped, or has nowhere to go.
-Props – blood, knives, guns, masks, general household objects
-Cameras shots – close ups to see emotion of characters
-Camera movement is very fast paced when victims are fighting or escaping/running.
Generic Conventions of a horror movie.
-Helpless Victim – tries and tries to escape but the villain always manages to catch them.
-Naïve teenagers – don’t know what’s happening until it actually happens.
-Usually relates to the victims life in someway. But sometimes it is completely random
-Villain has a problem with victim or something about them
Theories
Propp
-Victim – usually a helpless teenager, but sometimes an adult.
-Villain – the person that sets out to kill the victim for some reason.
-Helper (good) – tries to aid the victim in some way, but is usually thwarted.
-Helper (bad) – they aid the main villain in trying to catch the victim.
-Hero – the one that eventually manages to kill the villain, could possibly be the victim.
Todorov
-The films start with a normal scenario, which the audience can relate to. The Equilibrium.
-This is then disrupted by the Villain intervening somehow. The Dis-equilibrium
-The victim manages to escape or kill the villain somehow and tries to return to normal life. New equilibrium.
Sound
-The sound used in generic horror movies is usually a low tined music which helps to create tension and mystery. The music usually comes in when we are about to see something change in the narrative e.g. someone attempting to kill someone.
-The music can get louder and louder when nearing a point of importance. This is how the film makers let the audience know this.
