Genre - Setting

Horror films are conventionally set in abandoned places such as abandoned mental hospitals, dark alley ways, asylums, cabins in the woods, usually rural small cities, graveyards, old houses, it is very unseen that the main action happens in Big cities such as London or New York, (this usually happens in Zombie films to give a feel or realism). Set directors do this to create the feeling of isolation and danger for the protagonist character.

This would be a conventional setting for a horror film because:

• Hardly any light is coming in - meaning it is dark, gloomy and scary
• Danger is shown in the fact of it being abandoned which lets the audience percieve and stereotype the possibility of haunting
• There is things that could be used to cause injury and pain to the pro/antagonist.
• There is one door which looks as if to be blocked by wood ect.
• The only beam of light coming in is high up meaning there is no possibility of the antagonist escaping that way meaning there is one exit which is usually blocked by something.

This would be a conventional setting for a horror film because:

• It is creepy
• It causes the audience to ponder the possibilities of what used to be there
• It is conventional of horror films
• The props i.e the trolley shown in the middle can be used and played with to scare the audience.

This would be a conventional setting for a horror film because:

 
• The mise-en-scene of the overgrown shrubary gives the house a creepy look
• The audience will assume because it's old, conventionally it will be haunted.
• The dark lighting gives it a creepy effect.
• The iron gates make the audience feel trapped.