AO1 Representation in Horror films

The representation of social groups in horror films are sometimes portrayed as victims or killers like in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre there is a group of teens that are victims to the masked killer but in Scream there are both victims and killers that are apart of social groups. Each group is both similar and different in different horror films depending of what era the film is from in the 50's the films groups were strict where there were mainly sexist views against women where they would normally get killed of first leaving the killer almost always a man showing that at this time men were in charge not till the 70's when Alfred Hitchcock directed Psycho which was the first film to have a final girl which made the women more dominant in the future films. A lot of stereotypes were involved in horror films include: the murder weapons being kept in the open, the hero of the film who killed the monster always runs off leaving the monster to reincarnate, the one guy in the film who says "i'll be right back" then you don't see him again throughout the rest of the film and lastly whenever a blonde girl is being chased in a horror film they always fall down and occasionally sprain there ankles. The trends in horror films is that it taps into the subconscious of a persons mind which reacts to the survival instincts while watching a good horror film your hear should start beating twice the normal speed adrenaline should also take over giving you the feeling of you actually being in the film thats why the horror films i like to watch involve giving me the feeling i am in the film making my heart race letting the film immerse me in to the story. the main thing that can kill a movie franchise for me is a dull sequel it takes the fear out of the original for me if the sequel will be as horrifying as the original or more so then it will make the franchise will only get better the best way to make a horror better in my opinion is to make the original a fraction as scary as the sequel this way the sequel will give a better fear factor to the audience which will also give the film a better audience turn out.