Setting:
- Small communities
- isolated places
- large cities
- ghost towns
- abandoned: houses, hotels & insane asylums
- lakes
- roads
- woodlands
- shopping centers
- graveyards
Mise-en-scene:
- weapons
- religious artifacts
- blood
- knives
- masks
- cloaks
- shadows
- orchestral
- Heartbeat
- heavy breathing
- loud bangs
- white noise
- Corruption
- the unknown
- science gone wrong
- Nature
- religion
- death
- monsters
- murderers
- supernatural
- nightmares
- madness
- lust
- suicide
- Good verses evil ( Binary)
- childhood issues
- Establishing characters
- Discovery of a problem
- confrontation
- resolution
- Antagonist
- Protagonist
- survivors
- Victims
- typical horror movies feature a main protagonist (or 'final girl') who must embark on a mission to survive or kill to solve their problems
- Often narratives are formulaic (particularly present is sub genres like slashers films). for example after an event that turns the killer insane or some childhood trauma, the villain returns to his home town and preys on teenagers. As the teenagers represent 'immoral behavior' and tend to be killed off quite quickly (with exception of a possible single survivor which is usually a woman)
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