Typical features of the horror genre

mise-en-scene
- dark forest 
- old house 
- cemetery
- low key lighting 
- knives and weapons 
- blood 
- violence 
- red and black colours
- pathetic fallacy, storms, rain
sound 
- people screaming 
- high pitch diegetic sound 
Editing techniques and plots 
- people disappearing 
- jump scares 

Steve Neale's genre theory - he argues that genres are not created but are developed through a process where producers use similar codes and conventions in productions which then become repeated. 
"Genres are instances of repetition and difference." 
 


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