Conventions of a psychological Horror.
08:12The sub genre that our group decided to focus on is psychological horror.
The conventions can be split into several different points.
Weapons
For a Psychological horror, there are not any weapons as such, its more the killer/ villain uses fear or suspicion as a weapon. Twisting peoples minds and confusing them.
Sound
Non- diagetic sound is usual in a psychological horror. Usually with the creepy music over the top helps distort the perception of whats going on, helping with the psychological feel.
Setting
Most of the time, the settings are:
Large house,
forests,
schools, asylums,
hospitals.
For example
These places that the horrors are set in everyday places, making these scarier as it means it could happen to a normal person, and so the audience picture themselves in the protagonists position.
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