Theories that relate to our narrative

Hello!
Whilst making our trailers we have to bare in mind what theories our narrative relates to and why we chose these theories in particular. On the whole, I knew from the beginning what kind of theories that I wanted the trailer to consist of.

Final Girl Theory

Within our trailer we used the final girl theory because this theory occurs in most horror films and we still wanted to follow main conventions used within horror films. The final girl theory is evident in slasher film and specifically refers to the last woman or girl alive to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story. Like the title suggests, this theory is used near the end of the film when the girl is trying to run away from the villain and usually defeats the villain. The characters involves in this scene is Sammie and Angela in which Sammie is the final girl. In conclusion to this scene within our narrative, Sammie stabs Angela when she is weakened however it is up to the viewers to decided whether this actually kills Angela or not.  

The Monstrous Feminine

When we were constructing our storyboard it became evident to see that our main character (villain) came under the theory of a Monstrous Feminine. The villain in our narrative is Angela and her personality and character within the narrative comes underneath the monstrous feminine theory. She starts out being a nice, innocent religious girl who then becomes possessed by the Devil and turns into an angry, vicious killing-machine who kills people on the basis of how they’ve lived their lives. This narrative reminded us of the film ‘Carrie’ where this transformation from innocent to evil is present too however we were careful to make Angela not too similar to Carrie as we still wanted to be different from typical horror films. Hence, we decided to not give her any magical powers so that she still had elements of being human. Even though Angela is deemed as evil, it is not her fault that she is killing people as we have to remember that she is being possessed into doing those immoral acts.