Iconography of Horror films ten to involve 'creepy' or isolated settings like haunted buildings or ghost towns. Horror films also tend to use darkened settings like woodlands or cellars. Whilst antagonists tend to have iconography of masks, mutations or blood splatters featured on them. They also tend to be shown with weapons which there are the classic examples of chainsaws, knives, guns, stakes (the weapons also tend to be connected to the protagonist who often have to use them in life or death situations). Other iconography includes screaming victims, religious icons, ghosts, creatures, Halloween, symbols of death, isolated characters and having the binary oppositions of good verses evil.
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