Horror Film Characters

In organising and researching for our film campaign i have found that little girls are extremly scary. The fact they go against the conventions of a horror film is perfect for giving the audience a sense of the unknown as you usually accociate children and especially girls with innocence and happiness.




This is Samara, also known as the girl from ‘The Ring’. The Ring is a film that makes use of challenging conventions to do with little girls being scary and uses this to a great effect. She is seen in the film as extremely dangerous and also shown as incredibly scary due to firstly her face is almost always obscured by her hair. This is a form of mask as it is covering her face from the audience and gives a sense on threat. She is also seen in flashbacks throughout the film as a cut little girl. This is adding more to the sense of evil and fear as enigma is created through not knowing how she turned into such a form of evil.

This is Esther from a film called Orphan. She is portrayed origionally as a lonely orphan that has her own extraordinary talents. She is thenlater revealed to be demented and extremly evil. The main thing about this character is that she is origionally portrayed as being cute, this confuses the audience and also gives them even more fear as they origionally put faith and trust in her through her being nice.


These characters are linked to the main antagonist in our film. She is portrayed as a very young girl and has a innocent smile and laugh as if to show that she does not know the things she does are fatal and just a game to her. She is losely based on these characters as they are young girls that at some point in the film to be shown to be innocent and origionally good before the events of the film.

In the film Nightmare on Elm Street there is a male character called Freddy Krueger. He is in fact a male antagonist which is the stereotype of a horror film antagonist. He is a very recognizable character in horror films as his costume with the red and green striped jumper and hat are easily recognizable. His glove is incredible recognizable as the clawed glove has almost become a symbol for horror films in the past as it is instantly recognizable in films and has even made cameos in other films such as in the 9th Friday the 13th, the clow is seen grabbing Jason back to hell. His face is also horribly disfigured and burned. This is very scary as the audience is scared by his unnatural face. He is a stereotypical type of antagonist and does not go with out film type as we will be using a young female antagonist.

The victim of our trailer is a large man, a hiker. Hikers are generally strong and burly, he is then attacked b

y a young girl. This is going drastically agains the conventions as usually the big male character is the strong stoic type and even could be the anta

gonist.

Chip dove is in a film called Jennifer's body. This film also goes against conventions so that the

males in the film are all seen as victims as the female is the main antagonist.