Welcome to my blog, at the moment I'm on my AS Media Studies course. This blog is designed to contain a record of all the research and planning, leading up to the production of our slasher film (tentatively entitled 'Red Christmas'...)

Friday, 7 December 2012

Slasher Franchises

Leprechaun (1993) Mark Jones

$900k

Box office $8.5m

Comedic horror film
Mixed reviews overall, mainly bad

6 films in the series and an approaching remake

Leprechaun 4 is set in space, hybridising genres

5 & 6 are hybrids with the gangster genre

Lack of a final girl character in the first film, countertype
Use of a pogo stick as the killer's weapon
Large amount of franchise related merchandise produced

Idents: Trimark Pictures and Lionsgate

Halloween (1978) John Carpenter

No comments:

Post a Comment