References to other horror films

References to other horror films

DVD covers: we planned to have a horror film laying in one of our shots in our horror opening. We decided to use the film ‘mirrors’. Unfortunately the shot in which the DVD was in got cut from our footage, as it proved to be unnecessary.

Costumes: as the killer in our footage has his identity kept secret, we decided that he would wear a cloak. Not only does this add mystery to our footage, it also allows us to reference the film ‘scream’, where the killer also wore a cloak similar to ours.

Props: In our original ideas, the killer would take a knife from the main characters (Marie) kitchen and use it to kill her later on. This would be a reference to scream, which also features a knife block that is interacted with by characters in the opening scene. It is only a minor reference to scream, as ghostface doesn’t kill Casey with her own kitchen knife.

laptop wallpaper: we originally planned to have a horror film as the background of maries laptop. The image we were going to have was of Casey from scream encountering ghosface.

However, we chose to go against this, as used an image of a waterfall instead. We used this to foreshadow later events which would happen to Marie.
 Name references: we have named our character Marie. We have done this as it is similar to Marion crane, one of the characters in the film ‘psycho’ who also gets killed of relatively early.