Horror
Iconography: This is where certain pictures or sounds are associated with certain genres of film.
Examples of iconography in horror films are things like: blood/gore, knives, small places, forests/woods, fire, trapped. Also things like not being able to see who the killer is, e.g the face being covered up by long black hair.
It usually consists of a woman being on her own at some point and is gradually being chased throughout the film.
All of these things are what appear most frightening to the audiences, builds up the suspension and makes them feel really on edge.
Another effective example of iconography in horror is shadows/dark areas, this makes the audience feel really tense, as they they won't be able to see what is causing the shadow, also is there are dark areas in room it makes the audience feel really uneasy as they know that anything could be lurking about in the dark.
Here is a video of the trailer for the film 'Hostel'
In this film the characters in it are tortured in the most disturbing horrifying ways. For example things like chopping off limbs, cutting into people and drowning them etc.. It is a typical convention for horror films to have extreme scenarios that could be peoples worse nightmares.
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