How the horror genre represesnts genre in the films we have studied.

The three films that we have studied are: Halloween (1978), The Shining (1980) and Eden Lake (2008). We looked at this films and analysed whether women are presented equal to men, or if they are stereotypically shown.

In halloween the characters are equally split, there are 6 men and 6 woman. Looking at this tells us that there isnt an odd amount of females to males, this recognises that the male characters are in just as much danger and the female characters are. However within the film the female characters Laurie, Annie and Lynda are shown to be doing domestic chores such as cleaning and cooking. This leans the argument towards one side showing that females are viewed steriotypically. Also to support this argument Annie and Lynda are characters which are sexually presented, in consiquence to this these characters are later killed, this connotes how sex is bad and unpure and will have consiquences if it happends. Also the familial are presented in this film with Annies dad being the Sheriff, and Judith being the sister to Mike Myers. At the start of the film Judith is objectified in the death scene, Linda is also objectified in the bed scene and Annie is objectified in teh laundry scene. Although Laurie is not objectified, her name is gendre neutral, shes wears neutral clothing and doesnt wear any makeup and also has short hair. Within the film the death count is 3:2 woman to men. All of this shows reasons to why Woman have been connoted as objects and are stereotypically viewed.

The shining doesnt have an equal split of women to men ratio, this time it is a 60/40 in favour of men. This already puts pressure on the woman characters giving men an unfair advantage. The rolls set in this film are very stereotypical and are very similar to Halloween, the mother Wendy does all the domestic chores such and cleaning an cooking. Also again familial roles are shown, Wendy and the wife, Danny as the son, and Jack as the father. In the bath scene the camera puts the audience in Jacks eyes sexually apprasing the woman as an object, although the woman turns into a corpse undermining the objectification process. When watching the film it made us realise how much the film made us objectify the woman without even noticing, when she turned into a corpse made us feel ashamed that we had made a big mistake in observing the scene in a sexuall way. Finally similar to halloween there are 3 women and 2 men killed, although in the shining there is only 4 woman within the whole film, this makes the deaths of the woman significant and bias towards them. This film has also targeted woman stereotypicaly and are out numberd my men considerably.

The last film we studied was Eden Lake,