Cabin in the woods essay.

The film makes use of the many sub genres of horror throughout. The first subgenre it makes reference to is the slashes genre as one of the teens, discover a paintng of a mass murder of animals n her wall, this painting included  knives and  other phallic objects the killers were dressed in raggedy clothing. The sub genre slasher includes man stock characters, it s seen that the blonde girl is always a slut and she is always the most terrified and in this case the Jules(Anna Hutchinson) plays the blonde girl, she is seen to die first because of her promiscuous ways. The good girl, the virgin is always seen to survive as she doesn’t succumb to the blonde girls slut ways, she is called the final girl, in this case the final girl is Dana as she adopts masculine characteristics to defeat the monsters/antagonist and survives. This film use the sub genre splatter as, it includes alot of blood and in reference to cabin in the woods when the monsters attack the teens it is seen to be very gory. The film also uses zombies in this case the zombies(puppeteers) are the main antagonists and they are clearly zombies because they are tattered and trained and they have raggedy. Mostly the zombies are male, they posses this role. They also use the supernatural genre as the Japanese children are all possessing and looking up to a spiritual demon called Kyoto in this sense their innocence is being taken away. Monsters are being used as well they are there to show the struggle between the humans and the monsters, yet again they posses the role of males.Thriller is used aswell, as there is action during the film and at the beginning it was seen that they were going on an adventure that went wrong

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