How Does Scream Convey the Slasher Genre Conventions.

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HOW DOES SCREAM CONVEY THE SLASHER GENRE CONVENTIONS

Scream has many slasher conventions but we can see that not all of them are stereotypical.  Scream made a whole new meaning to the term teen-slasher by rebelling against the typical slasher conventions but it is clever as it also uses the old conventions as well.

We could see in this that the killer was masked this was a good idea as it used intertextuality by taking the idea from Halloween.  This was also a good idea as it didn’t reveal the killer to us and made us keep on guessing whom the killer might be.  Wes Craven put in lots of red herrings to keep us guessing and at one point they manage to convince us that the real killer (Billy Loomis) was not the killer.

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The mask was also stereotypical of a slasher as we know that a mask hides the human behind it it also dehumanises them.  The costume the killer wears is one that looks like death this could be symbolic because as soon as the killer touches them they die.  The phone call from them also could be a call of death, signalling that they are going to die.

 It is a typical teen horror movie, set in an American High School with characters that teenagers could easily relate to.

Casey Becker, a teenager who loves horror movies and dumped Stu ...

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