Influences & Inspiration for our Film Opening

We subverted the convention of having a series of murders in our film and used Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (from 1960) as inspiration; there are only two murders in the story, and the idea of a disguised and insane killer came to prominence with this film.

A widely used convention in the horror genre is using a female actor as the victim. For example, Fred Walton’s ‘When a Stranger Calls’ from 2006, is about a psychopathic killer who terrorises a female babysitter. we wanted subvert this convention and use a male actor for our victim.

Deaths in horror slasher are conventionally very gory. For example the SAW films.