Possessive Horror

Iconography:

-Symbols of death

-Darkness

-Scared facial/body expressions

-Weapons

-Blood/fire

-Pathetic fallacy

Stock Settings:

-Abandoned house/isolated areas

-A normal house

-Woods/forest

Plot:

-Suffering/people are effected in a bad way

-Someone being possessed

Stock Characters:

-Little children

-Parents

-Outsiders

-Possessor

-Doctor

Stock Themes:

-Evil

-Mystery

-Mental illness

-Suffering

-Strange events

-Death

Narrative:

-False scares

-Turning points

-Climax

-Recognition of their being something wrong

-Trying to solve the problem