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How Important are Horror/Slasher Conventions to your Narrative Expectations and Involvement During the Opening Sequence of 'Urban Legend'?
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How Important are Horror/Slasher Conventions to your Narrative Expectations and Involvement During the Opening Sequence of 'Urban Legend'? The narrative expectations of any horror film, not just Urban Legend, relies not only on the film itself, but the audience in question: For an audience who are partial to horror films, it may be predicted to great lengths. Some horror fans say they can guess the killer, final girl and motive in the first twenty minutes. For this reason, the enjoyment factor may diminish. However, for an audience watching their first horror film, or those who rarely watch them and are therefore not distinguished in the use of genre conventions, (respectively, a less experienced perspective) a horror film can conquer their emotions through the use of fear, shock, suspense or almost any other emotion. Another popular element is the use of humour; through the use of an anticlimax, humour is used to...
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