Supernatural and Slasher Themes
We decided that we would combine two sub-genres as we believe it gives more of a confusing effect on the audience. We put in slasher as Bloody Mary bathes in female virgin's blood. We also added the theme of supernatural as we believe that it gives a twist on the whole plot, showing that Bloody Mary could have come back from the dead. We believed that in giving these different senarios it would put on a bigger twist. Such as, Bloody Mary may have been reincarnated into this victim and the victim see's in his head that she is there and doesn't realise that he might actually be her and what he sees in his head are memories. Or, Bloody Mary has come to life and no one believes what he has seen and thinks it could just be in his head. Putting the shot of the victim attacking the doctor at the end leaves the audience confused and puzzled as to who really is the killer. This is why we believed that supernatural and slasher combined would represent our teaser trailer.
Supernatural
Themes include gods or goddesses, ghosts, apparitions, spirits, miracles, and other similar ideas or depictions of extraordinary phenomena. There are many successful supernatural films that have been produced recently, one example of this is Paranormal Activity. Although paranormal was good, we wanted something better then that and as we looked closer into the modern films that are being made we have seen that there are more and more films that have two main genres and not one. We thought that something that could incorporate both supernatural and slasher would be more interesting towards the viewer as they have less chance of seeing the same thing before, as these are newer to the film industry. (JB,JC)
Slahser
Themes for Slasher are most often deal with friendships, sex, cliche and with some transition into adulthood, and somewhere in the story a psycho killer is incorporated into it to make it a horror film. Slasher films are a classic genre in movies but becoming more modern means messing with the ideological view that we have about films, and this is why we are crossing Supernatural and Slasher.
The features of a regular slasher film is that there are good looking teenagers or young adults who have a lack of authority rendering them helpless to whatever psychopath is in the killing mood. These films usually start off with a murder of a young woman and eventually end with a group of similar aged people getting killed, except a lone survivor, who evidently lives to tell the tale of what happened that day. (JB)
The features of a regular slasher film is that there are good looking teenagers or young adults who have a lack of authority rendering them helpless to whatever psychopath is in the killing mood. These films usually start off with a murder of a young woman and eventually end with a group of similar aged people getting killed, except a lone survivor, who evidently lives to tell the tale of what happened that day. (JB)