Here are three synopsis's that have been highlighted according to the key elements.
Protagonist
Stock
characters
Plot
and stock situations
Icons
Background
and décor
Themes
Final
Destination
After boarding an airplane destined
for Paris, Alex Browning, a high school student going on his senior trip has a
premonition about the plane exploding after takeoff. Scrared and freaked out,
Alex tries to tell everyone about the explosion causing him to quarrel with a
fellow student, Carter Horton which gets them both kicked off the plane. Along
with them, Carter's girlfriend Terry who follows Carter, Alex's best friend Tod
who gets off to make sure Alex is okay, Billy Hitchcock who was just in the
wrong place at the wrong time, one of the faculty members Ms. Lewton, and Clear
Rivers whose motive for leaving was just out of belief of what Alex saw. Soon
after the plane takes off, the students watch as it explodes sending fear and
curiousity into their hearts. A little over a month goes by when one of the
survivors turns up dead. After that Alex begins to question whether or not
himself and the rest of the survivors are in danger. Could there really be a
design? Does death really have a pattern planned out for everyone? And if so,
after cheating death once, can you find a way to do it again?
Curse of chucky
After the events of Seed of Chucky,
Nica, a young woman forced to a wheelchair since birth, has to regroup her
sister, Barb and her brother-in-law, Ian for a funeral after the death of her
mother. While dealing with Barb, Ian, along with their 5-year-old daughter,
Alice; Nica receives an odd package - a creepy doll. After people start showing
up dead, the fearless Nica soon suspects that the creepy doll is much more than
just a doll.
Insidious
The teacher Josh Lambert and his wife Renai move
with their three children, the boys Dalton and Foster and the baby Cali, to a
big house. When Dalton is exploring the attic, he falls from the ladder and
hits the head on the floor. On the next morning, Dalton does not wake up and
stays in coma, but the doctors are not able to diagnose his problem. Three
months later, weird things happen in the house and Renai sees apparitions. She
is sure that the house is haunted and convinces Josh to move to another house.
Sooner Renai sees ghosts in the new house and Josh does not believe in his
wife. But his mother Lorraine tells him that she had also had a vision of a
fiend in Dalton's room. They invite the medium and Lorraine's old friend Elise
Rainier, who brings her team of ghost hunters Specs and Tucker to investigate
the supernatural phenomenon. Elise explains that Dalton is a traveler with the
ability of leaving his physical body and travel in astral projection. Now his
spiritual body is lost in a place called Further that is not for the living
and entities are gathered trying to get inside his empty physical body. Among
these entities there is a demon that needs Dalton's body to cause pain to the
others. Further, Lorraine discloses that Josh is also a gifted traveler and
must seek out Dalton in Further and bring him back.
From this exercise I have realised that horror films do have the same key elements that link them together, this sometimes makes films recognisable to the audience. a lot
when planning this will help me because it shows me that horror films have of key elements repeated and they are successful so i will do the same and follow suit. this will help my audience understand the genre im try to create
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