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Iconography - Torture Contraptions

As well as shadows and darkness being a common feature of horror movies, each film usually has a signature weapon as an iconography of horror films is torture weapons.

In the film 'Nightmare on Elm Street' the villain has a bladed glove which he uses on his victims. 

 

This means that throughout the film, whenever the audience sees or hears the blades on the glove, they know that someone is going to be killed.

 

Likewise, in Halloween, Michael Myers kills all his victims with a butchers knife. 

 

 

 The significance of the knife is put into context at the beginning of the film as it is the same knife which he killed his sister with. This shows the audience that he has killed once and is willing to kill again.