KT: Slasher/Stalker Horror

Slasher and Stalker is a sub-genre of horror typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and murdering a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a bladed tool such as a knife, machete, axe, scythe, or chainsaw. Although the term "slasher" may be used as a generic term for any horror movie involving graphic acts of murder, the genre has established its own set of characteristics which set it apart from related genres like the splatter film and psychological thriller. We are looking into both of these as we thought it was be an appropriate genre to film in Wilderness Woods.

The iconography used in these sub genres mainly consists of masked villains, with chainsaws or similar weapons, long corridors, secluded areas and staircases. These locations and props will become essential to us in making our horror movie and they are symbols recognised as associated with horror. They create a sense of unease and suspension which is the effect we aim to achieve.