The Rules in 'Scream'

It is evident that throughout horror movies, the use of such rules plays an significant part if one wants to survive. This is due to the fact that those victims who are seen to be disobedient to any of these rules are seen as deviant and thus must be punished, hinting that it has hidden morals in which it aims to educate its audience. Ironically the villain resort to this through killings (ironic because he in due course wants to make society a better place, yet he is the one causing most of the disturbing and horrific crimes that is occurring). Other films such as 'Halloween' also uses such rules; this has led me to agree with 'Steve Neale' (1980) theory which states that 'genres are instance of repetition and difference', suggesting that conventions are always repeated. Whilst in contrast 'Tzventan Todorov ‘argues that 'a new genre is always the transformation of one or several old genres'. Implying that hybrid genres plays around with the old genre, however is slightly changed as a way of twisting the narrative ever so slightly for its audience, as a way of engaging and advertising its product (unique selling point). This has led me to consider when creating my own trailer to incorporate such rules, which the final girl ultimately over comes in order to survive, which is something I want to reinforce in my own production (having a final girl, mostly likely to be of an ethnic minority as a way of subverting the conventions- following Tzventan Todorov theory).