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How does 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' subvert the horror genre? There are rules and conventions to every horror film and television programme that make the piece horror. The vast majority of horror films also stick to the 'rules' that it's predecessors have set, the most common of these being that men are heroes and women are victims. For example, the film 'Valentine', a typical horror film which portrays the rules thoroughly. The men all become heroes, if the women show any trace of sexual behaviour they are killed, they keep information from each other and often go off alone, and the women don't seem to know how to defend themselves. The fact that the film sticks to these rules makes it end up as an unsuccessful, stagnant piece of drama. However 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', although having many of the conventions of a typical horror film (such as demons, and events...

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