Film Genre Choice - 17/09/2011

For our film, we have chosen to make it in the form of the horror-mystery genre blend. Horror is a classic genre used for decades, and is designed to invoke fear whilst captivating the audience with surges of terror and often entertainment. Mystery is considered to be a sub-genre of the crime genre, and focuses on an individual or group of people investigating into some unsolved mystery. These two genres encompass our Hangman film idea perfectly as the horror captures the sheer terror of the Hangman killing innocent people in brutal methods, and the mystery coincides with the mystery surrounding the whole Hangman book - who is the Hangman? Is it some ancient old curse, or just her own mind becoming increasingly unstable? And how will she be able to stop the Hangman from killing her next? All these unanswered terrifying questions lead our group to believe that this film is definetely of the horror-mystery genre.

Some of the most famous films that have arose from the horror-mystery genre are as follows:

• Psycho (1960) - one of the most infamous horror-mystery films to date, and it really set the trend for successful films of the same genre
• The Exorcist (1973)
• The Omen (1976)
• The Ring (2002)
• Insidious (2010)