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.

Recent "Slasher" films

1)My Bloody Valentine (2009)

2)Toolbox murders (2004)

3)Severance (2006)

4)Switchblade romance (2003)

5)Hatchet (2006)

6)Wrong Turn (2003)

7)House of Wax (2005)

8)Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

9)Saw (2004)

10)Creep (2004)

11)Final destination (2000)

12)From Hell (2001)

13)The collector (2009)

14)The card player (2004)

15)Death Proof (2007)

16)House of 1000 corpses (2003)

17)The Devil’s Rejects (2005)

18)The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

19)The last house on  the left (2009)

20)Sorority row (2009)

21)The Strangers (2008)

22)Scream 3 (2000)

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