Conventions of Horror/Thrillers

In today's lesson, we wrote down the different conventions we expect to see in Horrors/Thrillers:

1. Blood
2. Death
3. Hero
4. Villain
5. Protagonist
6. Screaming
7. Ghosts
8. Poltergeists
9. Knives
10. Weapons
11. Darkness
12. Water
13. Contrapuntal sounds
14. Eerie music
15. Violence
16. Freaky children
17. Animals (spiders, snakes)
18. Echoes
19. Creaking of doors
20. Good-looking person
21. Phones
22. Videos
23. Masks
24. TV's
25. Blinding headlights
26. Radio's
27. Kidnapping
28. Basements
29. Hanging rope
30. Doors
31. Fog
32. Floods
33. Floorboards
34. Attics
35. Mirror's
36. Bathrooms
37. Sinks
38. Flashbacks
39. Shower's
40. Bath's
41. Kitchen's (Knives)
42. Alleys
43. Glass
44. Forests
45. Door locks
46. Trees
47. Hiding
48. Dark box
49. Isolation
50. Dolls
51. Clowns
52. Hooks
53. Demons
54. Zombies
55. Gore
56. Vampires
57. Witches
58. Possession
59. Abandoned house's
60. Murder
61. Dodgy locations
62. Paranoia
63. Owls
64. Sacrifice
65. Chlostrophobia
66. Traps
67. Guns
68. Dogs
69. Graveyards
70. Coffins
71. Churches
72. Flashing lights
73. Lamps/Candles
74. Dark hair
75. Pale skin
76. Numbers
77. Red -> danger/death
78. SILENCE
79. Closets
80. Storms
81. Raining -> bad weather
82. Full moon
83. Car accidents
84. Derelict
85. Power cuts