Research into killers

Commonalities in a Slasher horror killer:
o Personalities are masked and hidden thus keeping humanity unseen in killers mind or victims.
o Lack or distortion of human qualities.
o Choice of weapons suggests sadistic nature of killing.
o Costume codes show lack of awareness of image and covey isolation from society.
o Body language suggests overriding resilience and strength.
o Sadistic or far off gaze suggest a warped mind.
o Chaos is expressed through the victim’s lack of verbal or non verbal communication with the killer.
o The mask of the killers suggests a unacceptance for the crimes committed by the killer.
o Costume codes make the setting more terrifying.
o Normal everyday objects become menacing in the wrong hands.

The protagonist would have most of the commonalities of in slasher horror killers such as; ‘Personalities being masked and hidden thus keeping humanity unseen in killers mind or victims’ by him having a mental illness which triggers his reaction. The choice of weapons suggests sadistic nature of killing, by him killing people with ropes and gym equipment. Chaos is expressed through the victim’s lack of verbal or non verbal communication with the killer by him not even having physical contact with his victims only when the attack is taken place. Also Normal everyday objects become menacing in the wrong hands due to him doing the killings with rope and gym equipment.

This is the first slide showing the Connotation and Denotation of slasher horror killers: