Media horror opening evaluation 2 - How does your media product represent particuluar social groups ?

In our horror movie we made sure that the characters were relatible, relating to specific social groups as well as being stereotypical to the horror genre eg. an antagonist through a murderer, creature etc. This was shown how we choose masked villains, which clearly relate to many other horror films which included masked villains, 'Jason',Halloween as well as the scream franchise etc. We picked characters that we felt resembled the stereotypical and conventional cast of the horror genre and hopefully showed this quite clearly in our production. The character from the film who i will be using as an example to explain how we linked characters to a social group(s) i will explore below. -

In this evaluation i will be comparing the main character of my horror movie opening 'The River' with the main protagonist from 'A stranger calls'. Although their roles vary slightly they do have quite a few similarities, for example they both resemble a similar group of people being teens of the ages 17-19. Both characters appear quite similar in personalities also, getting annoyed at a younger brothers,texting on phones etc which both are quite stereotypical aspects for the social group of a typical teen. Teenagers often feature in horror films,so the use of  characters such as these are quite conventional to the genre. Teenagers like these are used in horror so frequently, as stereotypically they are thought of as vulnerable to an audience, and also they appear with a lesser intellect on average, again to heighten the mistakes they make thus furthering the gore and violence in a horror film. Teens are also used a lot in horror as the main  target audience is generally people of the same age so this makes them much more relatible to the audience, being the same age and being put in similar situations etc.

The two characters above are both targeted by the antagonist of the film and this is another way they relate, being victims of some sort of evil/horrific attack, they both have similar stereotypical personalities of a teenager and this is needed for their place in the horror genre, both characters also appear to be somewhat similar so i think it is evident of their relations.