Gothic Horror Sumary Revised 28/10/10

Gothic Horror Films tend to include darkness a gothic sans serif font and a fantasy villain with an exegrated flaw or power. They tend to be set in the past and to have older powerfull villains such as in Dracula. However more recent examples such as Twighlight have more noramal looking appearances and a victim to their vampireness this film was also countertypically set in the day. Fog, pale faces, blood, fangs and blue light all seem to appear in expecially vampire films. Often the horror play's on sexual and somtimes romantic desires many victims are female to appeal to the male gaze such as in The Satanic Rights of Dracula. Castle's, forrests and mansions all appear to be the settings for horror films although The Lost Boy's used a fun fair we chose a forest for ours because it is easiest to get hold of. Lightening, storms, moonlight and fog we will have to create to stay within the conventions of our genre.