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Halloween

The film ‘Halloween’ introduces elements of the horror genre in a ‘teenslasher’ movie in many different ways by using a variety of techniques that are shown through use of genre conventions, iconography, representation of people, places and objects, and the narrative structure.
There are many conventions of the horror genre present in ‘Halloween’. The use of weapons is a main convention that is present in this film. Child killer Michael Myers uses a knife taken from the kitchen drawer in his family home to kill his older sister. Throughout the rest of the film, Michael carries around a knife similar to the one used to kill his sister.
A basic narrative structure is present in this film that is commonly used in most other horror films. First of all, there is an original event where the villain is introduced, then time fast-forwards to 15 years from then, someone stirs the villain and the villain then focuses their attention on that person, the person who stirs the......


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