Stereotypical Horror

The horror genre is made to frighten people and to create a tense atmosphere for the viewers. These films can include lots of different characters.

• Serial Killers/Murderers
• Zombies
• Vampires
• Monsters
• Ghosts/Spirits
• Demons

Another theme that is often included in horror films is that children are the evil characters. Either for being possessed or becoming ghosts or spirits. The fact that children are supposed to be seen as innocent and wouldn't harm anybody makes the viewer unsettled and makes it seem like you never know what is going to happen next. A good example of a children being possessed is The Children.

   (2008)

The plot of this film is a Christmas and New Year holiday with a family turns into a fight for survival when the children start turning on their parents, they all begin to act really strange and no one knows why.
The cause for the children's increasingly disturbed and psychotic behaviour is suggested to be the result of an un-known sickness brought into the household by the youngest child.

At the end of the film the teenager and an adult get away but when they excape they discover hundreds of more infected children which suggests to the audience that it is never ending and no escape, which is much more daunting than when you know that they can defeat the evil.