Gender in slasher films is often debated about. The generic convention for the role of females in a slasher film is that they are often the victims and are portrayed to be in terror for a long period of time and they either die or survive. Our trailer followed this convention because our victim was Faisa who was portrayed as vulnerable and fearful of the killer. The killer in many slasher films is a male who is masked and often very strong, making it almost impossible to kill him. This emphasises the weakness of the female victim and the vulnerability. It is incredibly rare to come across a female killer. Our killer was a male who was portrayed as strong and big in the trailer.
Our group believed there are many
stereotypes present in horror slasher films. Also, the women are almost everytime the victims and are always being abused and killed which portrays women as weak. However, not all films present women in a weak and vulnerable way for example films characters like
Lara Croft. Additionally, men are also shown stereotypically in slasher films as they are often the killers in slasher movies which portrays them as violent killers. We chose to follow these roles to make our audience more aware of these stereotypes and how they can work against them.
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